How much snow is coming in the next three days

The winter storm is expected to produce large amounts of snow across more than a dozen states.

How much ice is coming in the next three days

A light glaze of ice makes travel hazardous. A quarter inch or more can cause tree and power line damage. A half-inch or more can cause even more destruction.

Dallas residents should plan to hunker down for days, official says

Dallas residents should have adequate food, medicine and supplies that can carry them through four or five days, said Kevin Oden, the city’s director of emergency management and crisis response.

Folks should be prepared to “hunker down, maybe until as late as Wednesday, and hold out while the weather goes through,” he told CNN.

The city has been in “response mode” since Friday afternoon, he said, working to treat roads, prepare shelters and ​implement other plans that have been months in the making.

“We definitely don’t believe that being on the roadways, particularly over these next 48 to 72 hours, is any place for folks to be,” Oden said.

And the risks will continue even after the precipitation has stopped. Once temperatures rise above freezing, there may be issues with pipes and water main breaks.

Oden encouraged residents to check on neighbors while emergency management crews work to keep the city safe.

“The biggest thing we’re watching is all of our critical infrastructure,” he said. “We want to make sure that the power is working, people can move freely on the streets, hospitals are operating, water is flowing, all of that. If we start to see impacts to any of those systems, we’ve got contingencies in place to hopefully get those systems back online and serve our residents.”

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Eggs, bread and water scarce in stores as shoppers in US rush to stock up ahead of storm

Residents from Texas to the Southeast are clearing store shelves of basic necessities, making items like eggs, bread and water increasingly difficult to find.

In Georgia, grocery stores were packed as families, college students and grandparents rushed to prepare ahead of the ice storm, CNN affiliate WMAZ reported. Shoppers in some areas waited in lines that appeared to stretch about half a mile, according to the outlet.

“I realized we didn’t have any bottled water,” Tripp Childs, who made multiple shopping trips, told WMAZ. Other shoppers described crowded aisles and empty shelves as they tried to gather supplies to ride out the storm.

“We just went to Walmart and bought out all the Red Bulls,” another shopper told WMAZ. “That was our main priority. We’re also stocking up on pasta and easy things we can make. Different kinds of bread, which people think they need to get – but no bananas. Not one banana.”

Similar scenes played out in Virginia, where shoppers moving through Costco, Publix and Kroger stores found bare shelves and long checkout lines.

“I know people want to be ready, but calm down, you don’t need to buy all the toilet paper in Virginia,” Kim Lepe told WWBT. “Some of the things I wanted to make sure I have, I do not have.”

The rush extended beyond the Southeast.

A Dallas resident told The Associated Press she was stocking up on chicken, eggs and prepared food ahead of the storm.

“It’s going to be a big storm,” Maricela Resendiz told the AP. Her plans: “Staying in, just being out of the way.”

At least 6 dead as massive winter storm cripples US

More than 1 million people without power, with deep freeze expected to last into early part of week in many states

HOUSTON, United States

At least six deaths were reported as a massive winter storm pummeled eastern and southern states in the US on Sunday with freezing rain, heavy snow and icy roads, shutting down airports and highways and knocking out power to more than a million people as it gained intensity.

The storm has dropped temperatures in many states to below freezing, according to multiple media outlets.

Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas have been hit the hardest so far, with accumulating ice snapping power lines, causing electricity outages and crippling major cities like Atlanta, Houston and Nashville, where most businesses and school districts have shut down as a preventative public safety measure.

According to the PowerOutage.us website, which tracks outages across the United States, Tennessee has suffered the most blackouts, with up to 339,000 customers without power as of mid-afternoon Sunday. Nearly 180,000 people in Mississippi are without power and almost 150,000 customers in Louisiana are in the dark. Texas and Georgia each have nearly 100,000 customers without electricity and emergency crews are working around the clock to try and restore power as quickly as possible.

Heavy snow is also wreaking havoc in the Midwest, including Ohio, where major cities like Cincinnati and Columbus have gotten 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 centimeters) so far. Nearly a foot (30 centimeters) of snow has accumulated in the state’s southwestern cities of Dayton and Springfield, with city officials urging residents to stay off the icy roads and highways and remain at home.

“It is really, really dangerous out there,” said Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther in a video statement. “You should be at home unless there is an absolute emergency.”

Other states have also been inundated by the heavy snowfall, including Arkansas (8 inches/20 centimeters), Illinois (11 inches/28 centimeters), Indiana (13 inches/33 centimeters), Kansas (12 inches/30 centimeters), Missouri (7 inches/18 centimeters) and Oklahoma (6 inches/15 centimeters). Parts of North Texas received 5 inches (13 centimeters) of snowfall, according to weather forecasters.

The Northeast has also been slammed with snowfall, with New Jersey receiving 10 inches (25 centimeters), New York seven inches (18 centimeters) and Pennsylvania 9 inches (23 centimeters).

More than 16,000 flights across the US have been canceled so far due to the winter storm, with thousands more flights delayed at airports across the US. Major cities experiencing cancellations and delays include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

Forecasters said the deep freeze is expected to last for many states through the early part of the week as the storm lingers across a large swath of the US.

Winter storm across the US in photos

 

 

A big winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, paralyzing air and road traffic while sending temperatures plunging. Power lines were draped in ice, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Southeast were left without electricity.

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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

 

 

Ice is seen during a winter weather event, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Kennesaw, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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