Photos: Deep freeze grips North as flooding hits South
Bitterly cold temperatures persisted across the northern U.S. while days of torrential rain in the Southeast left rising rivers, falling trees, weakened dams and mudslides.
Chicago Winter Weather
A bicycle is covered in a thick layer of ice in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. (Victor Hilitski/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Winter Weather Illinois
A man clears snow from his driveway of his house in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Severe Weather Mississippi
This image taken from video provided by WLBT-TV shows emergency personnel clearing the first of two trees that fell across Interstate 20 in Warren County, Miss., early Thursday morning, Feb. 13, 2020. The first fallen tree led to a chain-reaction crash involving seven 18-wheelers and a van. (Tracey James/WLBT via AP)
Southern Storms-Flooding
Workers assess a rock slide Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, along old U.S. Route 52 in Williamson, W.Va. (Mackenzie Koch/WOWK-TV via AP).
Winter Weather Iowa
A sun dog forms over the Iowa State Capitol grounds in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Temperatures plummeted below zero overnight with a windchill of -30. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)
Winter Weather Chicago
A person walking through Chinatown in Chicago braves snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Winter Weather Maine
Natalie Lewis, 5, helps her father, Andrew Lewis, dig out from a snowfall in Auburn, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. The pre-kindergarten student at Walton Elementary School had the day to help since school was canceled for her sixth snow day of the school year. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal via AP)
Severe Weather Mississippi
Construction crews arrived early Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, to begin clearing the parking lot at Waterview Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., after a large portion of a hill adjacent to the casino's main parking lot let loose and slid down Wednesday night, covering much of the parking lot. No cars were damaged and no one was injured. (Paul Ingram/The Vicksburg Post via AP)
Winter Weather South Dakota
Blowing snow moves over the roadway near the bridge on the U.S. Highway 281 bypass as blizzard and near white out conditions made travel in and around Aberdeen, S.D., difficult at times. (John Davis/Aberdeen American News via AP)
Winter Weather Illinois
A man cleans the snow off of his car in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, as temps plummeted. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Chicago Winter Weather
Large Lake Michigan waves crash against the lakefront, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, causing erosion and ice formation in Chicago. (Victor Hilitski/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chicago Winter Weather
Large Lake Michigan waves crash against the lakefront, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, causing erosion and ice formation in Chicago. (Victor Hilitski/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Southern Storms Flooding
Heavy rains left the Tuscaloosa, Ala., area with high water and washed-out roads. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Tuscaloosa News via AP)
Southern Storms Flooding
Crews work to replace drainage pipes at the Oktibbeha County Lake dam in Starkville, Miss., as heavy rains caused water levels to rise. (Ryan Phillips/The Starkville Daily News via AP)
Winter Weather Illinois
Sonia Fetherling of Homewood, Ill., walks her dogs Flicka and Kismet in the Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, following an overnight snowfall. (Todd Panagopoulos/Chicago Tribune via AP)
Severe Weather Mississippi
Construction crews arrived early Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, to begin clearing the parking lot at Waterview Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., after a large portion of a hill adjacent to the casino's main parking lot let loose and slid down Wednesday night, covering much of the parking lot. No cars were damaged and no one was injured. (Paul Ingram/The Vicksburg Post via AP)
Severe Weather Mississippi
Employees at Waterview Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., help remove a car that had gotten stuck Wednesday evening, Feb. 12, 2020, in dirt from a mudslide that occurred earlier in the evening. A large portion of a hill near the casino's main parking lot let loose late Wednesday covering much of the parking lot. No cars were damaged and no one was injured. (Terri Cowart Frazier/The Vicksburg Post via AP)
Winter Weather South Dakota
In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, photo, a pair of pedestrians make their way across campus at Northern State University in blowing snow in the morning in Aberdeen, S.D. (John Davis/Aberdeen American News via AP)
Winter Weather Maine
Natalie Lewis, 5, helps her father, Andrew Lewis, and mother, Cassandra Lewis, dig out from a snowfall in Auburn, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. The pre-kindergarten student at Walton Elementary School had the day to help since school was canceled for her sixth snow day of the school year. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal via AP)
Winter Weather Oklahoma
Jeff Thomas and his sons Sage and Avery sled down a hill in Tulsa, Okla. (Stephen Pingry/Tulsa World/Tulsa World via AP)