Snow Storm Brings Misery To Much Of US A powerful storm has dropped snow, freezing rain and sleet on the Mid-Atlantic and the East Coast, blanketing some NFL playing fields and forcing thousands of flights to be cancelled. The storm coated parts of Texas in ice, and struck the East Coast with unexpected force. It left travellers stranded, slowing traffic on roads and leading to a number of accidents, and caused some power outages. Arctic air plunged temperatures in much of the country, with the record low of -42F (-41C) reported in Jordan, Montana, on Saturday. The storm turned NFL playing fields in Pennsylvania into winter wonderlands. In Texas, the storm caused power outages and scrapped flights The snow fell so heavily in Philadelphia on Sunday that yard markers at Lincoln Financial Field - where the Eagles beat the Detroit Lions - were completely obscured. "Twenty-seven years I've been a season-ticket holder, I've never seen snow at the game like this," Philadelphia fan Dave Hamilton said. It just kept coming down. It was almost as bad in Pittsburgh, where the snow intensified after kick-off. Highways that ground to a halt over the weekend might be treacherous today, and travel problems were expected to linger for commuters. More than 1,000 flights scheduled for today have already been scrapped, many from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. On Sunday, more than 2,500 were cancelled with thousands more delayed, according to estimates from the website Flightaware.com. The forecast for today remains up in the air for the northeast, depending on how quickly the system moves and temperatures rise, according to the National Weather Service. Much of Dallas was covered in ice A winter storm warning was in effect in the morning for Washington DC and Baltimore, where freezing rain could cause power outages. Slippery conditions were reported overnight in the New York City area, where a crash involved about 20 vehicles. No injuries were reported. So far, one person has died in North Texas after a pick-up truck went off an icy bridge while four people have died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Heavy snow in the Philadelphia area has led to a fatal crash that involved some 50 vehicles.