Monster winter storm takes aim at one-third of US
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By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.
Cities including St. Louis, Kansas City and Milwaukee could be hardest hit, with expected midweek snowfalls of up to 2 feet and drifts piled 5 to 10 feet. Even hardy Chicago could be in for its third-worst blizzard since record-keeping began.
"I wouldn't want to be on the road in open areas tomorrow night," said forecaster Tom Skilling of Chicago television station WGN. "I don't think I'd want to be driving in the city either. The fact is people die in these things. They skid off the road and go wandering around in whiteout conditions. "
Warmer areas were not safe, either. The system could spawn tornadoes in parts of the South.
While record snowfalls have pounded the Northeast in one of that region's most brutal winters, the Midwest has been comparatively unscathed, until now.
At Edele and Mertz Hardware just a few blocks from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, customers lined up by 7 a.m. Monday waiting for the store to open. Snow shovels, ice melt and salt were all big sellers.
"`Freaking out' is a great way of putting it," employee Steve Edele said. "The icing - that's what scares people."
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Danielle Sampliner, 27, and her dog, Aleca, brave the frigid weather to run a couple of miles along the shores of Lake Erie Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, in Cleveland. Temperatures will stay in the teens for northeast Ohio on Monday.
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.
Cities including St. Louis, Kansas City and Milwaukee could be hardest hit, with expected midweek snowfalls of up to 2 feet and drifts piled 5 to 10 feet. Even hardy Chicago could be in for its third-worst blizzard since record-keeping began.
"I wouldn't want to be on the road in open areas tomorrow night," said forecaster Tom Skilling of Chicago television station WGN. "I don't think I'd want to be driving in the city either. The fact is people die in these things. They skid off the road and go wandering around in whiteout conditions. "
Warmer areas were not safe, either. The system could spawn tornadoes in parts of the South.
While record snowfalls have pounded the Northeast in one of that region's most brutal winters, the Midwest has been comparatively unscathed, until now.
At Edele and Mertz Hardware just a few blocks from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, customers lined up by 7 a.m. Monday waiting for the store to open. Snow shovels, ice melt and salt were all big sellers.
"`Freaking out' is a great way of putting it," employee Steve Edele said. "The icing - that's what scares people."
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Danielle Sampliner, 27, and her dog, Aleca, brave the frigid weather to run a couple of miles along the shores of Lake Erie Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, in Cleveland. Temperatures will stay in the teens for northeast Ohio on Monday.
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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