{"id":429379,"date":"2026-01-25T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:57:12","slug":"historic-storm-leaves-880000-without-power-and-11000-flights-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429379\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Historic\u2019 Storm Leaves 880,000 Without Power and 11,000 Flights Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 880,000 people have been left without power by a massive winter storm<\/a> that has sown chaos across the South and the Midwest and is now barreling toward the East Coast. <\/p>\n

Over 200 million people across the country were under some kind of weather alert<\/a> as of Sunday morning. Power outages have mostly affected homes in the South, including in Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, where large snowfall is rare. <\/p>\n

The storm\u2019s dangerous mixture of heavy snow, sleet, ice, and bitter cold threatens to trap millions indoors for days. Travel has been severely disrupted, with around 11,000 scheduled flights <\/a>canceled<\/a> on Sunday\u2014the most in a single day since the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1,800 flights in the U.S. have already been canceled for Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more: People Are Panic Buying for the Winter Storm. An Expert Explains Why We Do It<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump described<\/a> the storm as \u201chistoric\u201d on Saturday and said he had approved federal disaster declarations for several states\u2014including South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By late Saturday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that 17 states and the District of Columbia had declared weather emergencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just ask that everyone would be smart \u2013 stay home if possible,\u201d DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.<\/p>\n

By Sunday morning, the storm began to hit New England and much of the eastern third of the United States. The National Weather Service (NWS) expects<\/a> up to 18 inches of snow across New England, with close to a foot in major cities like New York City and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Experts warn the storm could become particularly dangerous due to the freezing temperatures forecast to follow closely behind it. As snow turns to sleet and freezing rain, roads could be coated with ice, and powerlines could freeze.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the wake of the storm, communities from the Southern Plains to the Northeast will contend<\/p>\n

with bitterly cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills,\u201d the NWS said in its early Sunday morning update. \u201cThis will cause prolonged hazardous travel and infrastructure impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three people were found dead on Saturday in New York City, according to the local NBC affiliate<\/a>, as feels-like temperatures dropped into the negatives\u2014a season low for the area\u2014and local leaders called for residents to stay home and to take precautions. Warming centers opened across<\/a> the five boroughs, and other city governments have listed<\/a> local recreation centers and buildings to serve as heated shelters.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, tackling his first major weather event as NYC Mayor, announced a remote learning day for the city\u2019s schools \u201cto keep everyone safe from hazardous weather conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added on social media that his teams were \u201cscouring the streets, offering shelter to homeless New Yorkers, and helping bring people inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Atlanta to Washington D.C. to Boston, transit authorities spent much of the weekend before the storm salting roads, sidewalks, and routes, while urging residents to stay home Sunday.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia\u2019s public transit, the SEPTA, said in a news release<\/a> that \u201cit is possible that some services will be entirely suspended\u201d as ice might impact infrastructure, while Atlanta\u2019s MARTA said<\/a> that the only bus routes available Sunday would be \u201clifeline routes\u201d that provide direct service to medical facilities and emergency rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 880,000 people have been left without power by a massive winter storm that has sown chaos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,7688,21,19,22,20,25,24,2986],"class_list":{"0":"post-429379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-news-desk","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}