10 dead in America's big freeze: Cold-snap worsens as THOUSANDS of flights cancelled, 161,000 go without power across more than half the country

A biting Winter storm has blasted the South and Midwest with ice and snow - leaving more than a quarter of a million people without power, grounding thousands of flights and causing treacherous conditions for travelers. Two people have died in traffic accidents on roads in Texas - the region hardest hit by the weather - where temperatures plunged below freezing on what residents dubbed 'Ice Friday'. But eight other deaths across the country have been attributed to the extreme weather - from the three who died from hypothermia in California to the woman who died in a car crash on icy roads in Indiana. The cold front proved fatal as far south as Arkansas where a 62-year-old man was killed from a falling tree, weighed down with ice.

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