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Round II of storm blast sparks resolve
(CNN) - East Coasters are greeting the latest winter storm to roar from the nation's midsection Wednesday with dismay and delight. Following a record-setting weekend blizzard in Washington, the storm is expected to dump more snow - and, for the likes of Richard Bahar, more misery. Bahar's tutoring business had to cancel classes for the week, which has meant refunds and rescheduling. "It's a total mess," Bahar said Wednesday morning. "Most of my business colleagues are sitting at home all week."
But for many students such as Hadass Kogan, the snow days are a welcome respite from the rigors of graduate school. "It's been really refreshing to get time off," said Kogan, a second-year student at George Washington University Law School. "I still have plenty of schoolwork to catch up on."
The winter storm barreled in from the Midwest, where it kept cars off streets and planes off runways in cities such as Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. It moved into Washington on Tuesday night and swooped toward New York. The storm is expected to dump up to 10 inches of snow in Washington, up to 20 inches in New York and up to 22 inches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Washington, D.C. has spent the past few days digging itself out from a record snowfall over the weekend. By Tuesday night, some city streets were again impassable. "The Potomac River is frozen, the George Washington Parkway a sheet of snowy ice," Bahar said. "It looks more like St. Petersburg, Russia."
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Runways ready for more snow to freeze flights across U.S.
More heavy snow is moving in from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic states. And travel problems still haven't cleared up from the weekend when parts of the D.C. area got 30 inches.
Some people are wondering if they'll get out this week. Our Sarah Lee reports from Reagan National Airport with a look at how things are moving.
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Mid-Atlantic braces for another 20 inches
Winter warnings are up again in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.
Places that were buried under more than two feet of snow over the weekend could get another 20 inches. The federal government remains shut down this morning and some flights still haven't gotten off the ground from the last storm.
We're tracking this new storm and the mess the last one left behind. Our Reynolds Wolf has this report from Washington.
Read more: Snowed-packed Washington to get hit again
Suffering in the bitter cold: Woman who lost power now has hope
Last week, CNN's Rob Marciano was in Memphis when he met Jacqueline Mosley. She was freezing because she couldn't pay her $3,000 power bill.
We were there when the city cut a deal to get her power back on until it warmed up. Jacqui joined us Tuesday to talk about her experience being unemployed for three years and being without heat for almost a year.
To contact Jacqueline Mosley, e-mail: jacquimosley@aol.com
How animals are coping with the cold
The extreme weather much of the country is dealing with isn't just affecting people and crops, but animals too.
For example, when iguanas get cold they go into hibernation mode and drop out of trees. Our John Zarrella tells us how some exotic animals are staying warm.
Arctic blast moves south, much of nation below freezing
(CNN) - A snowstorm backed by bone-chilling cold began to push into the Deep South on Thursday, re-enforcing record-low temperatures well into Florida.
A days-long cold spell eased some on Wednesday, but for much of the nation, even lower temperatures are on the way through the weekend. Record-breaking lows are forecast for two-thirds of the country, for most areas east of the Rockies.
The arctic blast that began over the weekend has been blamed for at least seven deaths across the nation.
CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said some areas in the South will have slightly warmer temperatures on Thursday before it cools off even more. He traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to find out just how cold it really is.
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