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Thick snow and freezing rain have been causing travel chaos in the eastern and southern sections of the United States.
Heavy snowstorms hit parts of North Carolina on Sunday, and dozens of traffic accidents were reported. The blizzard is the result of a low pressure system.
It's expected to strengthen into a major storm, as it moves northeastward. Atlanta received just over two-and-a-half centimeters of snow -- the first time the area had enough to measure on Christmas Day since the 1880s.
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at Washington DC's National Reagan Airport, and more than a thousand in the New York City area.
More than 35 centimeters of snow is forecast for New York City and New England, and nearly two dozen states east of the Mississippi are under severe weather warnings.
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A line forms at the Delta counter at Reagan National Airport in
Arlington, Va., on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, as a winter storm heads
up the east coast. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) |
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A Delta employee helps people in line at Reagan National Airport
in Arlington, Va., as a winter storm heads up the East coast on
Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) |
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Canceled flights are displayed on a monitor at Reagan National
Airport in Arlington, Va., as a winter storm heads up the East
coast on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) |
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An overturned SUV lies in a snowy ditch along I-40 East in North
Carolina at mile marker 48 on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010.
(AP Photo/The Asheville Citizen-Times, Margaret Hester) |
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Joe Amarro, sales manger of Bill Doraty Kia car dealership tries to
clear snow from the car lot during a snow storm in Medina, Ohio,
December 13, 2010. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk |
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Steven Kile works on a cable line from his
ladder during a snow storm in Medina Ohio,
December 13, 2010. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk |
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