More than 233,000 customers without power across Oregon, according to PowerOutage.us
A fast-moving thunderstorm tore down trees and damaged homes across the Las Vegas area on Saturday
More than 33,500 customers in Nevada were left without power from the storm, which reportedly blew a bouncy house onto the roof of a nearby home
As of Saturday, 40 states home to some 200 million Americans have placed winter weather alerts into effect
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency for all 254 counties in the state in preparation for the new storm
At least six people were injured after icy roads caused an 18-vehicle crash near Nashville on Saturday
DALLAS - Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting cancelled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far .
The storm has prompted officials in Houston, where temperatures were in the 20s Celsius earlier this week, to advise residents to prepare for power outages and hazardous roads.
Six die in icy Texas pileup as frigid weather blankets much of U.S Reuters
By Peter Szekely
(Reuters) - Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas, where six people died in a multi-vehicle pileup.
A line of freezing rain stretched from Texas to West Virginia, with some of it accumulating to one-quarter to one-half inch, according to meteorologist Marc Chenard at the National Weather Service s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
Snow and freezing rain could fall from Seattle to Washington, DC , and from North Dakota to Louisiana
Temps as low as minus 45 gripped Montana and Minnesota while minus 26 was reported in North Dakota
Louisiana, Virginia, and Oklahoma have declared states of emergency in anticipation of icy road conditions
The Plains states will see significant snowfalls of 6 or more inches and freezing rain from Sunday into Monday
Houston, which this week had highs in the 70s, was forecast to have its coldest temperatures in 30 years
Ice storm warnings were issued for Pacific Northwest states including Oregon and Washington State
Tens of thousands were without power in West Virginia after ice storm hit the area earlier this week