A major winter storm battering the Southern U.S. has created dangerous travel conditions and disrupted thousands of flights. At least one person died in a car crash in Texas, authorities said.
The ice storm stretching from Texas to Tennessee will continue through at least Thursday morning, with expected ice accumulation affecting travel and possibly spurring scattered power outages, the National Weather Service reported. Heavy rains and scattered flash floods are also possible, forecasters said.
Early Tuesday, sleet and freezing rain were falling across north and central Texas, with the NWS predicting that road conditions would become even more "treacherous" as the day wore on.
With icy and snowy conditions on roads across the state, a number of crashes were reported. One person died in a car crash in which inclement weather and icy roads may have been a factor, according to preliminary information from the Austin Police Department. The Austin Fire Department said it responded to more than 90 car crashes since midnight as well as two fires caused by space heaters.
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