BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
A massive winter storm is threatening 60 million Americans across 25 states with snow, ice, and cold weather. Areas expected to be hit by this weather event are:
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Illinois
- Indiana
The first significant winter storm of the year is endangering a 2,100-mile swath of the country from the Northwest and Plains through the mid-Atlantic and East Coast, bringing a multitude of life-threatening hazards across major metropolitan areas, including heavy snow amid potentially blizzard-like conditions, and crippling ice accretions that could lead to extended power outages.
"This is the big one," Chief Safety and Operations Officer Becky Allmeroth, with the Missouri Department of Transportation, told FOX Weather on Friday. "We are messaging out ahead of time, letting motorists know that our travel is going to be just about impossible on some of our major interstates: Interstate 70, because of the volume of snow, and Interstate 44 — that’s really the prime bull’s-eye right now for some of those heavier amounts of ice."
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