deadly winter storm

A gigantic and deadly winter storm is spreading across the US Midwest, with freezing rain and heavy snow causing road and air transport a chaos.

The worst part of the storm is expected to hit on Thursday and drop up to 2ft (61 cm) of snow by Christmas Day.

The icy roads were blamed because of the deaths of 12 motorists, but mostly in Nebraska, Kansas and Arizona.
There were also 100 flights leaving Minneapolis that were canceled because of the snow and the icy roads.

The national weather service (NWS) had publish blizzard warnings early on Thursday for Kansas and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Texas panhandle. They had said, "There's just a gigantic storm that is moving across the centre of the country , basically from the Canadian border to Texas and is spreading from west Colorado to Illinois . They also had recommended some things the people could do.

Also the freezing rain and high winds were making driving extremely dangerous. The latest storm began in the south-west on Tuesday, causing blizzard-like conditions and travel chaos, before spreading to the east and north.

South of the storm system, heavy thunderstorms will produce flooding across Texas and into the Ohio Valley, forecasters warned.
Flights at Chicago's two main airports were running on schedule, officials said, after the storm forced the cancellation of more than 260 flights on Wednesday.

What we think as a group about this new is that is very bad that the storm had caused many deaths and that a lot of flights were canceled. But is very nice to have snow at that time because it will make Christmas a beautiful time.