A winter storm is expected to blast the southern United States with heavy snow, ice and rain Thursday and Friday.

Roads remain slick or covered in snow after a winter storm hit Oklahoma on Thursday and snowfall continues Friday morning.

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that decimated neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City area and took the lives of some of its citizens. Teams are still evaluating the destruction, and the rating released Tuesday, May 21, is preliminary.