From The New York Times:
In Oxford, Miss., oaks and magnolias drooped like willows on Monday, sagging under the ice glazing their branches. That is, of course, if the trees still stood, as many had not, crashing onto houses and vehicles and getting tangled in utility lines. The debris and ice had rendered many roadways impassable. In some parts of the city, residents were stuck in frigid conditions, without electricity or a ride to the shelter.
Robyn Tannehill, the mayor of Oxford, typed out a message on Facebook to her city on Sunday night, straining to capture the consequences of the winter storm that had bombarded Mississippi, like much of the country, over the weekend. Some of what she saw was heartening, she said, like the crews “still giving it all they’ve got.” Even more of it was agonizing. “It looks like a tornado went down every street,” she wrote.
From AP:
The U.S. work week opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. [scroll for more:]
Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school cancellations Monday. Up to two feet (60 centimeters) were forecast in some of the harder-hit places. In Falmouth, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive south of Boston, snow was coming down in sheets and closing down the town.
From The New York Times:
A major winter storm was beginning to dump heavy snow in the Northeast United States on Sunday as it moved eastward, threatening to disrupt transportation and daily life in New York and other major cities. The system’s dangerous mix of ice, heavy snow and bitter cold could halt transit, knock out parts of the power grid and leave millions of Americans stuck inside for days. On Saturday, it brought rare heavy snow to places like Dallas and Nashville.
A winter storm warning was in effect early Sunday for more than 140 million people from New Mexico to Maine. Up to a foot and half of snow is forecast to fall in some areas of New England through Monday, the National Weather Service said in a forecast. Central Park in New York City could receive a foot. More than 10,000 flights have been canceled across the United States as a result of the winter storm, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
From Fox News:
Snow, freezing rain, and sleet are now slicing across America’s Heartland on a 2,300+ mile journey toward the East Coast. More than 190 million people are under some type of winter weather alert, breaking the record for the most number of U.S. counties simultaneously under a Winter Storm Warning.
States of Emergency have already been declared in nine states including, Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri and Mississippi, with Texas Governor Greg Abbott issuing a disaster declaration to more than 130 counties across the Lone Star State.
Governor @GregAbbott_TX provided an update on the preparations the state is taking ahead of incoming winter weather.
He declared a disaster proclamation & @TxDPS announced a waiver so that trucks can drive for longer to ensure Texans get supplies.https://t.co/tsxfyTV257 pic.twitter.com/Fl88HwEDHp
— Governor Abbott Press Office (@GovAbbottPress) January 22, 2026
From AP:
Texas and Oklahoma braced for heavy snow and ice that could make roadways treacherous Friday in what forecasters predict will be some of the initial effects of a huge, dayslong winter storm threatening catastrophic damage, extensive power outages and bitterly cold weather to the eastern two-thirds of the U.S.
More than 800 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed or canceled for the day in advance of the storm, including at airports in Dallas, Atlanta, and Oklahoma, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.