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Frigid temperatures and significant accumulations of ice, snow and sleet are in the forecast.
It will make travel conditions treacherous and could knock out power lines.
Several governors are declaring states of emergency, including Texas, the Carolinas and Georgia.
That allows them to pre-treat highways, open warming stations, stage supplies and equipment and call up National Guard troops.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says people should plan now.
The storm is also likely to disrupt air travel at some of the busiest airports in the country.
The targeted programs include drug courts, Narcan distribution, and suicide intervention.
Nicole Dawsey is executive director of the Addiction Prevention Coalition in Birmingham.
Dawsey says the administration's reversal shows democracy can work, but she says the future is uncertain.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Montgomery, Alabama.
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old in March of 1955 when a white bus driver ordered the black teenager to offer her seat to a white woman.
She told NPR in a 2009 interview that she'd paid her bus fare and had a right to her seat.
She was taken off in handcuffs and jailed.
Nine months later, Rosa Parks' arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
Colvin remained active, becoming a key plaintiff in the landmark federal lawsuit that dismantled segregated public transportation.