A winter storm had strike Northeast and has left more than 600,000 customers without electricity . The storm is delaying flights and turning the morning rush into the morning slush as communities brace for the worst.
Tree limbs snapped with a sound like gunshots, blacking out thousands of homes and businesses, and schools and government offices were closed Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the storm already blamed for at least 19 deaths, and a glaze of ice and snow caused widespread power outages from the southern Plains to the East Coast. Authorities say it could a week before some communities have electricity again.
Highway crews fought to keep up with slippery roads and in some places were blocked by fallen tree limbs and power lines. Ice had built up eight centimetres thick in sections of Arkansas and Oklahoma. 
The National Weather Service posted ice storm and winter storm warnings Tuesday along a broad swath from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys all the way into northern New England.
The same storm system is poised to strike large parts of Ontario and on through Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
About 30 Greyhound routes were cancelled Tuesday afternoon, mostly in the Midwest, while Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport spokesman Ken Capps said about 140 of the 900 daily flights had been cancelled.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear declared a statewide emergency Tuesday; Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry did the same on Monday.
Hundreds of public schools, colleges and universities called off classes Tuesday in parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Maryland.
The New Hampshire legislature cancelled Wednesday's sessions. Up to 38 centimetres of snow was forecast Wednesday in New Hampshire.
Since the storm began building on Monday, the weather had been blamed for five deaths in Texas, three in Arkansas, three in Virginia, five in Missouri, two in Oklahoma and one in Indiana.
Winter storm warnings are in effect from Texas to New England.
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