A massive storm pummeling a large swath of the US has already dumped heavy snow and continues to threaten the parts of the country Thursday with a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet that could make travel miserable and leave many in the dark.
Heavy snow began falling Tuesday and more than 20 inches had piled up in the Colorado Springs area, according to the National Weather Service . Parts of Illinois were inundated with more than a foot of snow, while Indiana had tallied more than 11 inches.When and how the winter storm will hit major US cities The system's reach is massive, with about 100 million people across at least 25 states under winter weather alerts as of early Thursday from the Mexican border to New England.
Chicago is expected to see between 4 and 8 inches of snow.Leaders of the state's power grid -- Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT -- reassured Texans Wednesday that it expects to be prepared to handle the high demand the storm will deliver but also warned there may be local outages unrelated to capacity. "With frozen precipitation there is always a chance for local outages caused by things like ice on wires or fallen tree limbs.
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