A massive winter storm sweeping across the U.S. has caused at least three fatalities
“Stay off the roads. The last-second shopping is not worth it if it would cost you your life,” Beshear said atBy Friday, power outages swept the nation, hitting North Carolina the hardest with more than 165,000 households, businesses and other electricity customers left in the dark.
“When it gets really cold down there, they have problems with the electrical grid, and people trying to heat their homes, demanding more and more electricity,” John Grushiak, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather, tells TIME.that it has upgraded since the last storm and “expects sufficient generation to meet forecasted demand.”
Blizzard-like conditions are expected as with 6-12 inches of snowfall as the storm moves towards the Great Lakes late Thursday. Snow is expected to pile up on highways in the region, so officials are advising against driving, as accidents are being reported all over the country. Parts of the East coast could experience record-low colds and will likely get some freezing rain. “When you get to the Southeast along the East coast, at least initially, it’s gonna get pretty warm. There’s going to be some rain, gusty winds and maybe even some thunderstorms, but by the time we get to Friday night, it’s going to get real cold,” Grushiak says.
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