Cold snap causes travel problems
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Students went home for a snow day, stranded travelers waited at airports and drivers slid across icy roads in the second day of a bitter cold wave across much of the nation.
A band of snow and sleet fell from Minnesota to New Hampshire. Dozens of schools closed in Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee, and some school districts in Illinois sent students home early.
More than 300 flights were canceled at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and about 50 were canceled at Midway Airport, said Department of Aviation spokesman Gregg Cunningham.
Winter weather advisories were in effect across the Midwest and from Texas to New England, where utilities were still repairing power lines snapped by last week’s devastating ice storm.
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