Parts of Tennessee could get as much as 6 inches of snow, forecasters said, and northern Mississippi and sections of Alabama could receive light snow accumulations.
and urged people to take the approaching storm seriously. In North Carolina, some store shelves were stripped bare of essentials including bread and milk.
And in Chicago, where a mayor once lost a bid for re-election because, in part, of the city’s failure to adequately respond to a massive blizzard when he was in office, the streets and sanitation department was on Saturday morning equipping more than 200 trucks with snow plow blades to keep the streets passable during and after the expected storm.
A winter storm watch extended from just north of metro Atlanta to Arkansas in the west and Pennsylvania in the north, covering parts of 10 states including Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. Travel problems could extend into metro Atlanta, where about 2 inches of snow brought traffic to a slip-sliding halt in 2014, an event still known as “Snowmaggedon.”
Possible power outages and travel problems could be exacerbated by any coating of ice — and winds gusting to 35 mph , the National Weather Service said. “There is a potential for very dangerous conditions caused by accumulations of ice and snow, which will likely result in power outages across the state,” he said.
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