MINNEAPOLIS — Snow and bitter cold snarled traffic and prompted another 1,650 U.S. flight cancellations on Monday, and tens of thousands of people were still without power after January-like weather barged in a month early.
The storm covered parts of north Texas in ice over the weekend and then moved east. Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the U.S. from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals, making intersections an adventure.
More than 22,000 Dallas-area homes and businesses were still without power on Monday, according to electric utility Oncor. And more than half of the nation’s flight cancellations on Monday were at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Outages in Virginia and Maryland left some 124,000 customers without power, following freezing rain, wet snow and sleet. At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, more than 100 flights were canceled, according to .
