Cold, High Winds Rake Parts of Midwest
A new winter storm plunged parts of the Midwest into a deep freeze Wednesday, with strong winds making it feel like it was 60 below zero, weather officials said.
It officially was 9 below zero amid blinding snow at midmorning Wednesday in Bismarck, N. D., where the new storm was spinning rapidly southward. But strong winds raking the state produced the brutal wind chills.
Forecasters said snow from the storm would spread from the Dakotas through Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and on into New England. They warned residents of south Texas and northern Florida to brace for freezing temperatures by the weekend.
Jim Candor, a forecaster for Accu-Weather Inc., said the new storm was not packing the potential for snowfall as heavy as the one that struck the East on Monday and Tuesday.
In parts of the East, thousands of people were without power and many roads remained impassable.
In Barboursville, W. Va., Mary Cazad said she used wood from one of eight pine trees that were toppled in her yard to keep her fireplace ablaze until the power returned.
Waynesburg, Pa., a coal mining town of 4,900 southwest of Pittsburgh, was buried under 33 inches of snow--so much that plows had nowhere left to push it.
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