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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says that complicates recovery efforts.
The University of Mississippi says its campus in Oxford will remain closed for a second week.
Forecasters are predicting widespread travel disruptions, prolonged power outages, and frigid temperatures over nearly two-thirds of the eastern U.S.
More than a half dozen governors from Texas to New York have declared states of emergency.
North Carolina Governor Josh Stein says it's a serious and dangerous storm.
States are staging power crews and pulling up National Guard troops, while local governments are opening inclement weather shelters and warming stations.
Forecasters say heavy snow and crippling ice are in store for a large section of the country and frigid temperatures will persist into next week.
More than a half dozen states have declared emergencies and pulled up National Guard troops.
Governor Jeff Landry warns that residents in North Louisiana could be without electricity for days.
School systems including Chicago, Des Moines, and Milwaukee canceled classes today, and airlines have canceled hundreds of flights.
Well, forecasters are warning this is a potentially life-threatening and catastrophic winter storm.
It's going to bring frigid temperatures, dump a lot of snow, sleet, freezing rain.
Generally, that's going to make travel treacherous and could result in widespread power outages as ice coats, trees, and power lines knocking out service.
I spoke with a National Weather Service forecaster.
He told me, look for heavy snow and blinding snow squalls on the northern side of this system and then crippling ice and sleet to the south.
All right, so everyone knows this is coming.
What are people doing to prepare?