Winter storm 'Draco' wreaks havoc across U.S. with 5,200 flights delayed and heavy snow stranding millions trying to get home for Christmas

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Mail Online - 12/22/12

  • 131 flights cancelled today and 5,843 delayed across the U.S.
  • National Weather Service issues winter storm warnings for Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Ohio as well as parts of Northern California and Oregon
  • Delays of an hour or more were reported at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and La Guardia Airport in New York
  • At least four people dead in treacherous driving conditions
  • Three people killed in 25-vehicle pileup in Iowa after drivers were blinded by snow
  • Pretty but dangerous: The crimson red sky is pictured through snow-covered foliage in Wisconsin, where Governor Scott Walker has declared a state of emergency

    Powerful winds and snow whipped parts of the eastern United States on Saturday, carrying the promise of a white Christmas while threatening to cause havoc for the many Americans traveling for the holidays.

    The storm moving in from the Midwest was sending strong winds into the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England and buried parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin in more than a foot of snow earlier this week. Several inches of snow fell on Saturday in parts of western Pennsylvania.

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