At least 10 people have died as a wild storm sweeps across the US, bringing travel chaos and severe disruption from the South to the Northeast corners of America.
Golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes wreaked havoc as a severe weather front made landfall this week, which has toppled trucks and left millions without power across several states.
Further torrential rain and heavy snowfall is expected into next week, as states including Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas are still reeling from the destruction.
Californians in the San Bernadino Valley have been warned to avoid the mountains after 17 feet of snow was dumped in the region, leaving residents trapped.
And at least three Kentuckians have died in the chaos, with officials reporting other deaths in Alabama, Mississippi and California.
More than 60 million people were under threat of severe storms Friday, with a further 20 million from Texas to Pennsylvania currently under high wind alerts.
The wide-ranging storm has left millions stranded in their homes, as large numbers of residents in Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Alabama all left without power, according to PowerOutage.us.
One of the deaths in Kentucky reportedly occurred after a tree fell onto a vehicle, while the strong winds have also sent trailer trucks flying across the Midwest.
Southern Indiana is also among the regions experiencing the severe weather, which has blown from Texas and up both US coasts.
The National Weather Service said the storm will continue to push north through the weekend, producing ‘a swath of heavy snow from the Upper Midwest through New England’.
‘Significant sleet and freezing rain is possible just south of the heaviest snow,’ it added.
Travel chaos is expected to hamper residents from the Upper Midwest through the Great Lakes into next week, with further power outages possible, according to the forecaster.
Widespread torrential rain has fallen across the Midwest since Thursday night, with between three and five inches already recorded this week.
Flash flood warnings have been introduced across 400 miles stretching from Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
More than 20 million people are under flood watches heading into the weekend.
‘Prolonged heavy rainfall rates associated with training showers and thunderstorms may also lead to flash flooding throughout much of the Mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valleys stretching eastward into the Mid-Atlantic,’ the Weather Prediction Center said Friday morning.