Yet another massive snowstorm is sweeping the country and primarily affecting the Great Plains and Midwest regions.
While Laramie residents woke up Thursday to a couple inches of snow, other states received much more of the storm.
On Thursday, Omaha received about a foot of snow and St. Louis and Chicago received about 3 to 6 inches. Some areas of Kansas received up to 17 inches of snow, according to USA Today.
A total of 20 states are also under some form of winter storm warning, NBC reported. Those states included Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm has already claimed its first victims, 18-year-old Cody Alexander of Alex, Okla., whose truck skidded into oncoming traffic on slushy roads and a 19-year-old woman who was killed in a two-car accident in Nebraska.
The powerful storm is the result of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico colliding with cold air over Kansas and Nebraska. Even Tucson, Ariz. saw snow, which resulted in the World Golf Championship Match Play being suspended on Wednesday.
The massive storm has also been the cause of several flight delays and cancellations across the country, including 50 cancellations at Denver International Airport, 320 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and 50 at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield, according to Reuters.
While not all states saw massive amounts of snow, many saw heavy and freezing rain while the more southern states such as Texas and Louisiana faced threats of tornadoes.
The snowstorm itself has died down in Laramie, but the National Weather Service has still listed high wind warnings for Wyoming, which it says could lead to even more hazardous conditions with blowing snow.
The Laramie Valley could see wind gusts of up 50 mph Friday and Saturday and could face wind chills of -5 throughout the weekend.
