Almost 300,000 people were still in the dark as of 5:30 a.m. ET, and Spokane Public Schools announced classes were canceled Wednesday due to the outages.
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Damage was also reported to cabins on Lake Hamilton Drive in Garland County, where more than 11,000 Entergy customers were without power. “So, I came this way not realizing that they were shutting the roads down, that it was that bad”, said truck driver Thomas Meyer, who was traveling with his dog, Little Hank. Forecasters say a small tornado touched down before dawn Tuesday in North Texas, in the Keller area. “It’s a hell of (a) mess here”. KUSA, a local broadcaster, reported that about 150 cars had been stranded on Interstate Tuesday morning.
Typically, the first accumulating snowfall – a tenth of an inch or more – is seen in Chicago around November 16, according to the weather service.
But Bryce was sure his mom wasn’t happy.
“She’s sitting at home yelling at me”, he said.
According to a separate hazardous weather outlook issued, “there still remains a few uncertainty regarding the timing and strength of this system”, but added “current indications are that … several inches of snow could potentially fall”.
As we head into the evening hours and temperatures drop through the 30s, the wintry mix will change over to all snow and it will be moderate to heavy, at times.
A large chunk of the northeastern Colorado as well as the western part of Kansas had received a blizzard warning due to the storm system drawing near.
Gusts as high as 65 miles per hour were still creating unsafe whiteout conditions Tuesday night across in the High Plains.
In fact, there are already Winter Storm Watches for that area.
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“We’re still not out of the woods for many locations in Arkansas”, Banks said.
