<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">East Coast, US-</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">2.28.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>A huge swath of the country was coated by a snowy winter storm, covering Missouri to Maine. Forecasters warned of difficult travel and transportation.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Reports show that truckers have been forced to a standstill in a large part of affected areas, making shipping next to impossible. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/winter-storm-body.jpg" alt="Images022713" /></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The Rockies and Great Plains were rocked by the same storm earlier this week, bringing hurricane-force winds and making travel hopeless in Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>"It's straight hell. It's snowing, blowing, drifting, everything," said Robert Branscecum, a trucker from Campton, Ill., who was hauling Wal-Mart merchandise to Dallas. He had been stranded since Monday evening at Beto Junction, about 80 miles southwest of Kansas City, MyFoxHouston reported. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>"The cars are stuck in the parking lot. Some of the trucks that tried to leave got stuck," he said. "I'm not leaving anytime soon."</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The storm's biggest impact has been in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. In Texas, winds reached 84 mph near El Paso, according to Weather.com. 7-foot snow drifts were reported in Silverton, south of Amarillo, which received a 120-year record-setting 19 inches of snow.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The National Weather Service has issued warnings for this week in parts of the Midwest including Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Michigan.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The storm is making its way east, and is expected to dump 6 to 10 inches of snow later this week from the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania through the Adirondacks of upstate New York and into interior New England, according to NBCNews.com.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Stay tuned to AndNowUKnow for the updates on the storm. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/27/17112788-winter-storm-drops-snow-from-missouri-to-maine" target="_new">Storm Update</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
