Winter Weather Woes

A killer winter storm responsible for 19 deaths and loss of power to 600,000 homes and businesses has barreled across the Southern Plains and Midwest. Above, branches weighted with ice hang down to the surface of Goggin Road in Boyle County near Danville, Ky., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2008. Roads throughout western Kentucky were impassable due to fallen trees, utility poles and power lines.

Nicholas Clawson walks past ice-covered trees during ice and wintery weather on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, in Fayetteville, Ark. 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.

Eddy Deason, an employee of Hopkinsville Electric Service, uses a chainsaw on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 to cut ice covered limbs away from powerlines in Hopkinsville, Ky. A winter storm system moved through much of western Kentucky on Monday night, leaving the area blanketed in a sheet of ice.

Crews work to clear snow from a taxi way at Lambert St. Louis International Airport Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, in St. Louis. The storm is delaying flights across the country and turning the morning rush into the morning slush as communities brace for the worst.

A Delta Air Lines employee works to de-ice the wings of a jet before taking off at Lambert St. Louis International Airport Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, in St. Louis. Snow, freezing rain and sleet continued Tuesday across much of Missouri, causing hundreds of accidents, prompting power outages and forcing schools and colleges to close for the day.

A motorist attempts to clear ice from her windshield wipers as she drives on a highway in Broken Arrow, Okla., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Sixteen Oklahoma counties are under a winter storm warning while seven counties are under an ice storm warning.

Ice forms on a street sign on Winter Hawk Road in Boyle County near Danville, Ky., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2008. Gov. Steve Beshear has declared a statewide emergency as a powerful winter storm barreled through the state.

A police car drives past downed tree branches weighted with ice on Gose Pike in Boyle County near Danville, Ky., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2008. Winter storm warnings were posted for Wednesday from Arkansas to Maine.

A disabled auto sits stranded along I-71 near Glencoe, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Gov. Steve Beshear declared a statewide emergency as a powerful winter storm barrels through Kentucky.

Ice covers a branch in the foreground, as a motorist cleans snow off her car in downtown Muskogee, Okla. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry declared a statewide emergency Monday.

An Oklahoma license plate illustrates the icy conditions awaiting motorists on Oklahoma roads, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 in Tulsa. Sixteen Oklahoma counties are under a winter storm warning while seven counties are under an ice storm warning.

A large limb blocks Highland Church Road in Paducah., Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Roads throughout western Kentucky were impassable due to fallen trees, utility poles and power lines.

A pair of horses look for fresh grass as they graze for grass in a pasture near Verona, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Gov. Steve Beshear has declared a statewide emergency as a powerful winter storm barrels through Kentucky.

The storm was on an eastward trek across the country. Above, a commuter walks through a snow covered construction tunnel covering the sidewalk on a wintry night in Rosslyn, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Winter storm warnings were posted for Wednesday from Arkansas to Maine.

A car slid into a utility pole, breaking the pole, in Cincinatti, Ohio, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. The accident caused power outages in both Over-the-Rhine and Mount Auburn. Snow on top of ice on top of snow is pulling down power lines in Ohio, leaving more than 100,000 electric customers without service.

The Capitol is illuminated as snow and sleet arrive in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Ice warnings are up all over the Northeast and parts of the region could be coated in up to a half-inch of ice.

The storm did have a silver lining, of course. University of Oklahoma freshman Brian Teed of Houston was among those experiencing his first snow and first snowball fight as sleet, rain and snow fall in Norman, Okla. on Tuesday, January 27, 2009.

Icy cactus needles and a cobweb catch the light on a prickly pear paddle near Sears Park in Abilene, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Freezing temperatures and a drizzly rain kept roads treacherous by coating everything in a glaze of ice.

The plumage of a cardinal on a fence stands out against this snow-covered field near Maysville, Ky. Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009. Parts of the state received between 6 to 8 inches of snow over night with more predicted.

A grey squirrel sits atop a feeding station and munches on an ear of feed corn as the snow falls around him in Moreland Hills, Ohio on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.