Significant winter storm shutters the South and cancels more than 3,000 US flights

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significant winter storm is hammering the South with snow and ice, causing major travel disruptions and power outages just a day after it walloped the Plains.

The storm had already shut down the South Friday — schools and government offices were closed and states of emergency declared as it started to disrupt travel.

More than 3,000 flights in and out of the US were canceled Friday – the worst day for flight cancellations since July – as the storm stretched over nearly every major airport in the South, according to FlightAware.


Snow was falling over much of Tennessee early Friday afternoon, including in Memphis and Nashville, while a mix of snow and sleet hit parts of the Southeast — including Atlanta, which has seen its biggest snow in nearly seven years.

Areas farther west got the same treatment overnight, resulting in a scene far from a winter wonderland.

More than 135,000 homes and businesses were without power in Georgia, Texas and Arkansas amid freezing temperatures by Friday evening, according to PowerOutage.us. Georgia is experiencing the majority of the outages.

Snow has piled up in these areas since Thursday. Areas north of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro recorded up to 8 inches of snow while up to a foot fell near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. Dallas picked up 2 to 4 inches of snow, marking this storm as the city’s biggest in four years.

Southeastern Oklahoma picked up 6 to 10 inches of snow and more than a foot fell in central Arkansas.
Source-cnn