Messy Winter Weather for Nation as Holiday Week Begins

CNN) -- Snowstorms and icy conditions on Sunday have delayed flights across
the northern United States, causing havoc on roads and leaving thousands without
electricity.

At least one death has been attributed to storms that hit
all over the country in the past week. A 44-year-old Massachusetts man died
Friday when a tree limb weighed down by snow fell on him, authorities
said.
Forecasters say there's more cold weather to come.
Authorities urged
motorists in north-central and northeast Iowa to stay off roads because of poor
visibility caused by blowing snow. Authorities prohibited tow trucks from
operating on U.S. Highway 20, near the border with Minnesota, because of
concerns the tow trucks would get stuck.
The National Weather Service has
issued a blizzard warning for the area until 6 p.m. CT and residents may have to
hunker down in below-zero weather.
Blizzard warnings were also in effect for
parts of northern Maine, northern Illinois and southern Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation
ordered snowplow drivers off the road until Sunday morning in 13 southwest
counties, because of poor visibility, blowing snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph,
an agency spokeswoman said Saturday.

The western U.S. has also been hit
with the cold blast. Parts of Washington saw 2 to 3 feet of snow last week. On
Friday, two buses carrying 80 people collided on a road in Seattle and crashed
through a metal railing, where they hung over a freeway for several hours before
two trucks rescued them.
The storm system is expected to move eastward, where
people are already dealing with air traffic delays and power outages brought on
by snowfall earlier this week.
"This is essentially the reincarnation of the
same storm that brought the heavy snow to parts of California, southern Nevada
and northern Arizona," Steve Corfidi, lead forecaster with the weather service's
Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, told CNNRadio.

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