by Renee Straker at The Weather Channel
While the snow and freezing rain from this winter storm are ending, the impacts across much of the country are not.
The Northeast is taking the final snowfall from Winter Storm Fern, but the impacts of this monster storm will be felt by millions for much longer.
School and work are canceled for many at the start of this work week, as hundreds of thousands remain without power in temperatures that won’t even reach the freezing mark.
The number of deaths is rising, with at least twelve deaths blamed on the storm. In Louisiana, two men died of hypothermia, and that was also the cause of death for a woman in Kansas and one of two deaths in Texas.
In Tennessee, the storm claimed three lives, three people also died in Pennsylvania. In Massachusetts a woman died after she and her husband were struck by a snowplow.
The South is bearing the brunt of those widespread power outages, as crews around the clock in the dangerous cold to restore electricity.
Here’s a look at some of the headlines and updates from this morning.
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