A major cross-country storm is moving east, bringing thunderstorms to the South from Texas to New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day before heading to the East Coast on Wednesday.

Storms that swept through Texas and Oklahoma brought high winds and rain, overturning tractor-trailers and damaging roofs. Power outages were climbing in the storm’s wake, with nearly 400,000 customers without power in Texas, about 30,000 in Louisiana and another 25,000 in Mississippi, according to PowerOutage.us.

Blizzard conditions in parts of southern Minnesota made travel there dangerous Wednesday morning, the weather service office in the Twin Cities warned on social media. Heavy snow and strong northerly winds slowed travel across much of the Twin Cities, southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, the weather service said.

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