Rick Perry renewed a waiver that makes it easier for trucks to transport propane through his state to others that have declared a propane emergency. Kansas City, Missouri, officials told business to stagger start times on Wednesday to make morning traffic easier, something the city has never done before, said a spokesman for the city’s public works department. Christie advised residents to drive carefully or stay home. Chris Christie each issued a state of emergency. Generally, places north of that line will get snow and those south will get rain. Temperatures were going to reach a low of 28 degrees in Little Rock, the station reported.Īrkansas is on the western edge of freezing rain forecast through Tuesday night – a line that stretches east-northeastward into Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and points east. Most of those customers were with Entergy Arkansas, which reported 40,000 outages. Mike Beebe to tell nonessential state employees to stay home Tuesday.ĬNN affiliate KATV reported that tens of thousands of people in the state would be without power through at least Wednesday morning. In Arkansas, the prospect of freezing rain spurred Gov.

Such conditions are expected to cause a nightmare commute Wednesday morning in and around the New York metro area, among other places.īut the nightmare may come sooner elsewhere. On the New Jersey emergency management office’s Twitter feed, meteorologist Gary Szatowski said the National Weather Service’s “reasonable worst case scenario” for parts of that state and others nearby call for 0.75 inches of ice accumulation that could lead to as many as five days of power outages.Īs Szatowski said: “Some would call that catastrophic.” Freezing rain warnings have been issued for large parts of Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area, where trees, power lines and roads could be coated by early Wednesday.Īfter enduring a recent record-breaking snow, New Yorkers could get a mix of snow and sleet beginning Tuesday night that could encrust the city with nearly half an inch of ice by Wednesday. Southwest said all customers were safe and at the terminal.īut the ice is coming to other parts of the country. Enterprise, 80 miles to the west, had already seen 13 inches of snow by Tuesday evening, CNN affiliate WIBW reported.Ī Southwest plane at Kansas City International Airport hit a snow bank as the airliner was taxing to the gate, according to airline spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger. Residents of Topeka, Kansas, should see 7 to 11 inches of flakes by the end of the day.

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