A significant winter storm is hammering the South with snow and ice, causing major travel disruptions and power outages just a day after it walloped the Plains.
\nThe storm had already shut down the South Friday \u2014 schools and government offices were closed and states of emergency declared as it started to disrupt travel.
\nMore than 3,000 flights in and out of the US were canceled Friday \u2013 the worst day for flight cancellations since July \u2013 as the storm stretched over nearly every major airport in the South, according to FlightAware.
\nSnow was falling over much of Tennessee early Friday afternoon, including in Memphis and Nashville, while a mix of snow and sleet hit parts of the Southeast \u2014 including Atlanta, which has seen its biggest snow in nearly seven years.
\nAreas farther west got the same treatment overnight, resulting in a scene far from a winter wonderland.
\nMore than 135,000 homes and businesses were without power in Georgia, Texas and Arkansas amid freezing temperatures by Friday evening, according to PowerOutage.us. Georgia is experiencing the majority of the outages.
\nSnow has piled up in these areas since Thursday. Areas north of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro recorded up to 8 inches of snow while up to a foot fell near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. Dallas picked up 2 to 4 inches of snow, marking this storm as the city\u2019s biggest in four years.
\nSoutheastern Oklahoma picked up 6 to 10 inches of snow and more than a foot fell in central Arkansas.-CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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