Ronnie Moody of Nabholz Construction Services plows ice from the parking lot of the St. Bernards Outpatient Dialysis Center on Washington Avenue in Downtown Jonesboro, Ark., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Moody said he and others had been working off and on since about 3 a.m. Saturday clearing key areas around the hospital. AP Photo/The Jonesboro Sun, Rob Holt Kelly Felts, left, Nolan Felts, second from left, Tara Kilpatrick, second from right, and Erin Simmons, all of Richmond, Va., try to figure out a running route outside of Autozone Park, despite the cancellation of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon, in Memphis, Tenn. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. The weather forced the cancellation of the marathon, which expected to include 20,000 runners. AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, William DeShazer A runner makes his way down Main Street, despite the cancellation of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon, in Memphis, Tenn. Montana head coach Mick Delaney walks along the sidelines in the first half of an NCAA college football playoff game against Coastal Carolina in Missoula, Mont., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. AP Photo/Michael Albans Fans are bundled against the cold as they watch Rutgers play South Florida in an NCAA college football game in Piscataway, N.J., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Rutgers won 31-6. AP Photo/Mel Evans WASHINGTON (AP) - A powerful storm system that spread hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain widely across the nation's midsection rumbled toward the densely populated Eastern seaboard on Sunday, promising more of the same. Forecasters said the potent system already blamed for numerous power outages and thousands of weekend flight cancellations elsewhere, has Virginia and other Mid-Atlantic states in its icy sights before the Northeast is up next. Icy conditions were expected to last through the rest of the weekend from Texas to Ohio to Tennessee. And officials warned a major ice storm was possible in Virginia's Appalachian region along the busy Interstate 81 corridor . Forecasters said the storm caused freezing rain and icy conditions in parts of Tennessee as it surged across that state late Saturday and early Sunday. It also has been blamed for plunging temperatures as a cold front sweeps down from the North on the jet stream. Bob Nations Jr., director of the emergency operations command center for the Memphis area, said early Sunday that ice coating roads, bridges and overpasses caused several multi-vehicle crashes. He issued a statement urging drivers to use extreme caution, particularly on bridges and overpasses. Police in Memphis, meanwhile, urged motorists to stay home altogether if they could avoid travel early Sunday. Ice had built up on the windshields and roofs of parked cars throughout Memphis during the day Saturday. "It looks like we're going to be stuck with this for one, two, maybe three days," said Memphis attorney Sam Chafetz, who tried to get off the roads before the worst of the storm hit. I'm not afraid of the ice and snow, I'm afraid of the other drivers who don't know how to drive in it. Forecasters said motorists traveling Interstate 81 between Roanoke, Va., and Hagerstown, Md., should be on the lookout Sunday for any deterioration in conditions like that in Texas when the storm crossed parts of that state Friday and Saturday. In Texas earlier, icy and treacherous sections of Interstate 35 north of Dallas were closed for hours at a time after tractor-trailers had trouble climbing hills, wrecks occurred and vehicles stalled, authorities said. They were forced to spend Friday night in their pickup truck, which they kept running for heat. Ice up to 4 inches thick was reported on one interstate in Texas at the height of the storm there. And about 75,000 customers in the Dallas area went without power for a time Saturday, down from a peak of more than 270,000 earlier.