Snow, ice, wind race through Ohio Valley
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Sliding cars and jackknifed trucks snarled highway traffic, and flights were grounded Tuesday as a storm blew out of the Midwest with a threat of up to 2 feet of blowing, drifting snow.
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Hundreds of airline flights were canceled Saturday and fleets of road plows were warmed up as a paralyzing snowstorm barreled out of the Midwest and spread across the Northeast with a potential for up to 20 inches of snow driven by 50 mph wind.
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--This is a plow. And this is frozen slush. Any questions?   In the first winter storm of any consequence, this city failed the street-clearing test badly.
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A winter storm battered states from the Plains through the Midwest on Wednesday, sending travelers slipping and sliding over icy roads, dumping a foot of snow over some areas and pushing temperatures to bitter-cold levels.
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Storms that roared through the Northwest and Rockies &#151; crippling traffic and helping break a Seattle precipitation record &#151; blew through the southern Plains and Midwest, bringing the first significant ice and snow of the season.
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Snow was forecast for large parts of the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast on Wednesday, with as much as 2 feet or more possible in some areas of the northern Mid-Atlantic and New England.
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By Eric Bowen, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Feb. 15--Overnight rain turned to ice and snow Wednesday morning as the temperature plunged below freezing, causing slick roads throughout the area.
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A winter storm responsible for deaths in the Midwest blasted the Northeast on Thursday, dumping snow and sleet and clogging some of the nation's most heavily traveled highways.
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People across the Midwest woke up Thursday to as many as 20 inches of snow, while residents and business owners in the Great Lakes region nervously eyed rising rivers and braced for flooding.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Feb. 16--The western Lake Erie ice has survived the onslaught of this week's blizzard-like Nor'easter, and fishermen were heading back out to favorite fishing zones yesterday.
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A howling blizzard slammed the Northeast on Sunday with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane-strength wind gusts, halting air travel for thousands of people, keeping others off slippery highways and burying parked cars under deep drifts. At least six deaths were linked to the weather, three in Ohio, two in Wisconsin and one in Pennsylvania.
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Snow and ice spread across wide sections of the Ohio Valley on Tuesday, closing schools, littering roads with cars that had spun out and canceling an appearance by first lady Laura Bush.
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Windy, bitterly cold weather spread from the northern Plains to the Northeast on Sunday, with blinding snow canceling church services in parts of Michigan and causing a 68-vehicle pileup in Pennsylvania.
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A strong snowstorm that cut visibility nearly to zero in some places as it rolled across the Plains on Saturday caused numerous vehicle pileups and forced authorities to close portions of several major highways.
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Snow was forecast Wednesday in the higher elevations of Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming as well as the Central Rockies as a Pacific cold front moves southeast through the region.
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A strong cold front was expected to push through the Central U.S. on Wednesday, dumping snow from the Rockies to the Plains and Upper Midwest. Snowfall was expected to range from 3 to 8 inches.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 1--It may not look so bad early today, with a few inches of snow on the ground, more snow falling and winds gusting to about 35 mph.