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OEM Winter Storm Update

WINTER STORM IMPACTING STATE
Due to the severe winter weather, the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is at Level Two activation, which involves extended operating hours for key personnel. The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) is in contact with emergency managers in the affected areas.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
A powerful upper level storm system continues to bring winter weather conditions [...]

Big storm moves into S. Calif.; snow closes I-5

LOS ANGELES – A storm that could be the largest of the season is bringing heavy rain and snow to sections of California.
The National Weather Service posted winter storm warnings Monday for the Sierra Nevada and issued flood advisories from the San Francisco Bay area south to the Los Angeles region.
The California Highway Patrol said snow [...]

**Winter Storm Warning**

A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 6 PM EST Wednesday. Snow will develop across the area tonight and continue into Tuesday. Another wave of precipitation will overspread the area Tuesday evening and continue into Wednesday morning.
The precipitation Tuesday night will be a mixture of snow… sleet and
freezing rain… changing to all snow [...]

Three Tractor-Trailers Involved In Crash On Snowy Highway

BELTON, Mo. — Three tractor-trailers were among several vehicles that piled up Friday morning on a snowy U.S. Highway 71 in Belton.
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Snowy roads lead to fatal accident

Snow covered, slippery roads led to the death of a Blair man Monday evening after the pick up truck he was driving was t-boned by a semi tractor trailer.
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Truckers tough it out during nasty storm in nation’s northeast

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Brought to a standstill by a bone-biting storm throughout the nation’s northeast section, truckers were bearing up none the worse for wear on Thursday.
Northeasterners were socked with the same subzero temperatures and biting winds that have turned the Northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes into a teeth-chattering misery for much of the [...]

Winter weather turns deadly in Northwest Indiana

A winter storm blanketing Northwest Indiana turned deadly Wednesday when two people were killed in a series of crashes involving 20 cars on the Indiana Toll Road in western Porter County.
The pair were killed in separate, but almost simultaneous, collisions in the westbound lanes, near the U.S. 49 exit at 9:50 a.m., police said.
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More heavy rain and severe weather

SOUTH -
The combination of severe thunderstorms and flooding rain will threaten areas from Central Texas to the Lower Mississippi River Valley today.
In addition, gusty winds will complicate matters over much of the South as the area of low pressure strengthens.
The thunderstorms will evolve into a squall late tonight into tomorrow with damaging winds and [...]

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