Not content just to hit New England with blizzard after blizzard, Mother Nature is expected to unleash heavy snow and uncharacteristically bitter cold on the Midwest, the South and the East this week.
The governors of Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency Monday as a winter storm, lumbering their direction, dumped almost a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest and ice and sleet from Tennessee to Georgia. Federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area will be closed Tuesday because of the weather.
As of midday Monday, winter storm warnings touching 17 states and affecting millions of residents stretched from Missouri to New Jersey
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