Millions hunker down as storm hits eastern US

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with heavy snow and ice, knocking power out to an estimated 235,000 people and counting.

The National Weather Service said the storm was bringing a miserable combination of heavy snow, freezing rain and high winds, impacting the south-east and coastal mid-Atlantic before moving up to New England and southern Canada.

"Arctic air already in place across the central and eastern US will work in concert with this dynamic system to deliver a wide swathe of more than a foot of heavy snow northwards across the upper Ohio Valley through the lower Great Lakes," the NWS said. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp had declared a state of emergency on Friday, and snowploughs were at work before noon to clear the roads.

 

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