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(NewsNation) — Millions of Americans woke up Sunday greeting to wintertime tempest and blizzard warnings -- a strategy that forecasters are calling 1 of the strongest wintertime storms successful much than a decade.
The storms span from Colorado to Washington, D.C., and the worst of it is inactive to travel crossed the Midwest and Mid-South earlier heading eastbound toward Philadelphia and the I-95 corridor.
Heavy snow from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic volition bring "damaging ice" and "freezing rain" done precocious Monday night, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow started falling successful Utah Saturday, and past began moving eastbound done the Rockies. Salt Lake City picked up much than a ft of snowfall successful a substance of hours.
The archetypal fewer bands of wintertime upwind caused question disruptions from Denver done Kansas, creating a spot of a headache for the Kansas City Chiefs shot team, whose plane got stuck connected the tarmac Saturday for much than 3 hours owed to icy conditions.
The Chiefs landed successful Denver precocious Saturday nighttime up of their crippled Sunday day against the Denver Broncos.
Crews were moving successful Kansas City to get the roads acceptable arsenic radical rushed to the stores to banal up connected groceries, h2o and different indispensable items.
As overmuch arsenic 20 inches of snowfall is forecast astir the Kansas City metro area.
“Shelves are empty. These lines are long. Honestly, each we’re trying to bash retired present is beryllium arsenic bully to each different arsenic imaginable due to the fact that we’re each doing the aforesaid thing,” said Caitlynn O’Hara, an Instacart shopper.
“I'm telling you, erstwhile the beverage motortruck showed up, we were doing everything successful our powerfulness to get it stocked,” said Karla Quandt, store manager of Hy-Vee Grocery Store successful Shawnee, Kansas. “The refrigerated motortruck with the eggs, we were virtually pulling that and conscionable stocking arsenic accelerated arsenic we can.”
Blizzard warnings are successful effect for Kansas City and points westbound until 3 a.m. section clip Monday, and wintertime tempest warnings are successful effect for parts of 15 states.
The tempest strategy stretches from the Kansas-Oklahoma borderline to the Atlantic and is lone conscionable ramping up. State officials arsenic acold east arsenic Virginia are already urging residents to hole for a agelong week.
The wintertime tempest volition not straight interaction immoderate large hose hubs, truthful cities similar Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta volition they spared, though conditions astatine the smaller determination airports whitethorn make a trickle-down effect.
Other areas are seeing formation cancellations, however. Across the Midwest, much than fractional of each flights into and retired of Kansas City and St. Louis are canceled Sunday. Cincinnati, Ohio, is besides seeing delays piling up.
States of exigency are successful effect successful Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana arsenic galore kids are returning to schoolhouse from wintertime break.
