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Winter weather alerts stretched more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km)
from Alabama to Maine, with the governors of Georgia, Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina all declaring emergencies due
to the storm.
More than 200,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Georgia reported power outages, according to
PowerOutage.US, a website tracking power outages.
In North Carolina, where some regions saw record snowfalls, two
people died Sunday when they lost control of their car in
Raleigh.
The highest snowfall totals were expected along the spine of the
Appalachians as well as across the lower Great Lakes.
The storm made its way through the Mid-Atlantic region toward
New England on Sunday night, bringing snow that is expected to
change to ice, sleet and eventually rain, the National Weather
Service said.
In Canada, the storm is forecast to dump between 20-40cm (8-16
inches) of snow through Monday morning over parts of southern
and eastern Ontario, the Canadian province that shares part of
its border with New York state, the government weather agency,
Environment Canada, said.
The inclement weather hits just as Ontario schools were set to
reopen for in-person classes on Monday after the winter break
was extended because of the highly contagious Omicron
coronavirus variant.
More than 3,000 flights within, into or out of the United States
were canceled on Sunday, and over 8,000 flights were delayed,
according to FlightAware data.
American Airlines Group Inc saw more than 660 flight
cancellations. More than 90% of the flights into and out of
Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, an
American Airlines hub, were canceled, the FlightAware website
https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled showed.
American Airlines said it is allowing customers affected by the
weather to rebook flights without a fee.
Toronto, home of Canada's busiest airport, is set to see
accumulations of 15 to 20cm of snow.
This was a long weekend for most people in the United States as
Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said on Sunday people should avoid
non-essential travel in areas impacted by the storm.
"If you're able tonight and tomorrow morning, stay home and off
the roads," Kemp said on
https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/
1482828779005353984Twitter. "It's going to be treacherous in a
lot of parts of our state."
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe in Washington and Kanishka Singh in
Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb
in Los Angeles; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Kieran Murray and
Karishma Singh)
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