OKLAHOMA CITY A winter storm system that blew through Christmas Day with Gulf Coast tornadoes and snow in the nation's midsection headed for the Northeast on Wednesday, spreading blizzard conditions that slowed holiday travel.
The death toll rose to six with car accidents on snow and sleet-slickened highways in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Forecasters say the trifecta of winter weather is expected to hit New Jersey over the next few days, bringing four the eight inches of rain in some parts.
Post-Christmas travelers braced for flight delays and a raft of weather warnings for drivers, a day after rare winter twisters damaged buildings in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The heaviest snows were being seen in parts of Indiana and Ohio, where blizzard conditions are expected to drop accumulations of more than one foot, reports CBS station WFOR-TV meteorologist Jeff Berardelli.
There were whiteout conditions in parts of southwestern Indiana, where 6 inches or more of snow had fallen by midmorning around Evansville. State police reported dozens of vehicles stuck after not being able to get up a hill on a central Indiana highway, while some roads around Evansville were impassable with wind gusts around 30 mph.
A blizzard warning was in effect for much of the state's southern two-thirds and more than a dozen counties issued travel watches asking residents to make only essential driving trips.
"People need to not travel. They need to just go where they're going to be and stay there," said Rachel Trevino, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service bureau in Paducah, Ky., which covers southwestern Indiana.
In snowy Arkansas, the storm left more than 191,000 customers without electricity Wednesday, utility Entergy Arkansas said. They also said some of those customers may be without electricity until 2013.
Severe thunderstorms were forecast for the Carolinas while a
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Resumen: A winter storm system that blew through Christmas Day with Gulf Coast tornadoes and snow in the nation's midsection headed for the Northeast on Wednesday, spreading blizzard conditions that slowed holiday travel.
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