Winter Storm Heading for Texas Grounds Flights, Menaces Grid
- Dallas snow and ice will arrive as city heads to work Thursday
- Ice threatens Atlanta on Friday, tying up US air traffic
At least 23 million people from Texas to the southern Appalachian Mountains are under winter storm watches.
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Flights are already being grounded as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts.
As of 2:45 p.m. in New York, 631 flights to and from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had been canceled for Thursday, according to FlightAware. Cancellations may also hit major US air hub Atlanta, which is forecast to get snow and freezing rain on Friday.