Texas,
Louisiana brace for ice as bitter winter drags on
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[February 23, 2015]
(Reuters) - A winter storm pummeled the southern and western
United States on Monday, forcing authorities to cancel flights and close
schools as most of the country braced for another bout of freezing
weather.
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A storm warning was issued from southeastern California through
Louisiana as an arctic cold front expands south and east after
dropping heavy snow on Colorado, the National Weather Service said.
In Denver, residents were digging out from between six and 12 inches
of snow (15-30 cm), while higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains
got up to two feet (61 cm), the Service said.
The front even sent temperatures tumbling below freezing in parts of
Texas and Louisiana and Arkansas, some 25 degrees Fahrenheit (14
degrees Celsius) below average. Sleet and freezing rain was making
road travel there treacherous.
More than 1,000 flights were canceled in and out of Dallas/Fort
Worth International Airport by early on Monday, according to the
airline tracking site FlightAware.
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Several school districts around the Dallas-Fort Worth area had
canceled class, local officials said.
In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal issued a state of emergency late
Sunday due to the storm and potentially hazardous travel conditions,
and schools and state offices in 23 Louisiana parishes were closed,
his office said.
Meantime, millions of people along the East Coast were in store for
another bone-chilling blast of arctic air on the heels of a weekend
snow storm, the Weather Service said.
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After a brief reprieve on Sunday, residents from Washington D.C. to
Boston would see temperatures drop dramatically on Monday.
In New York City, lows could reach five degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15
degrees Celsius).
Last week, a shot of cold air that marched through the Northeast
broke decades-old record low temperatures.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Seattle; editing by John
Stonestreet)
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