Snow covered much of West Virginia Thursday.
A storm system will continue to blast areas from Texas to New York with widespread snow and flooding rain through Thursday, says accuweather.com.
"Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour will occur at times from south of New York City to Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia," AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
Some 40,000 customers are without power in West Virginia and at least 19,000 in Ohio, where snow is hindering restoration efforts in some areas.
FlightStats reports that 2,460 flights have been canceled nationally so far on Thursday. An additional 1,121 flights have faced delays.
With reports of 10 inches, 12 inches, 17 inches, even as much as 25 inches (62 cm) of snow in some parts of the state, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has declared a state of emergency for the state.
Kentucky Department of Transportation cameras show a line of cars stuck on I-65 northbound outside of Elizabethtown. Emergency management reports that crews are working as fast as possible to safely assist the stranded drivers and passengers. Some have been stuck in their cars for more than 9 hours.
"Tow trucks and snow plows are out, but also getting stuck as well," Hardin County Emergency Management said on their Facebook page.
Up to 8 inches of snow is also expected in Virginia
Ice shutting down roads from Virginia to Mississippi to Louisiana to Alabama
"Meanwhile, sleet is advancing across the South and extends from the I-81 corridor in southwestern Virginia to I-20 in Mississippi and northeastern Louisiana," Sosnowski said.
Sleet and ice are also creating dangerous travel in Alabama. One inch of sleet has been measured by the National Weather Service in Huntsville.
Madison and Franklin Counties in Alabama report that roads are impassable. Limestone County, Alabama, is reporting that all roads are becoming treacherous and impassable. And in Colbert, all roads and bridges "should be considered IMPASSABLE until further notice."
The list goes on and on and on, but I find almost no mention of this on any of the major national news networks..
My March is warm and sunny. Even the cats have given up hibernating in favour of the outdoors. I think we had 1/4 inch of snow max in a nearby town the whole winter and the weatherman is threatening us with 20 degrees celcius (68F) on Sunday.
Wrong month, but right sentiment...
Oh, to be in England
Now that April 's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Robert Browning