Ice from winter storm leaves hundreds of thousands of customers without power across the South

Icicles form on a mailbox on a neighborhood street as a winter storm moves through Nashville, Tenn. A massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, bringing subzero temperatures and paralyzing air and road traffic. Tree branches and power lines snapped under the weight of ice, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Southeast were left without electricity. The ice and snowfall were expected to continue into Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, which could cause "dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts" to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said. Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while "catastrophic ice accumulation" threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. "It is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread," weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview. "It was affecting areas all the way from New Mexico, Texas, all the way into New England, so we're talking like a 2,000-mile spread." RELATED STORY | More than 10,000 flights canceled as massive winter storm...

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