Officials urged people to stay off the roads Wednesday in portions of Virginia and North Carolina where a storm dropped heavy snow and caused hundreds of accidents in places unaccustomed to significant accumulations.

This week’s winter storm comes on the heel of a storm in the Kentucky-area that brought flash flooding and killed at least 10 people.

The projected path of a cross-county storm has been finalized by forecasters as the system barrels toward the East Coast.The system will arrive in the mid-Atlantic starting late Wednesday afternoon, Feb.

Officials urged people to stay off the roads Wednesday in portions of Virginia and North Carolina where a storm dropped heavy snow and caused hundreds of accidents in places unaccustomed to significant accumulations.

Several states along the Atlantic Coast were set to receive up to a foot of snow as much of the central U.S. faced dangerously cold temperatures.

A major winter storm affecting 100 million Americans in 25 states will hit the East Coast just in time to potentially create slick conditions for commuters in parts of the Northeast.The sprawling system,

The latest in a long line of winter storms is taking direct aim at the East Coast, threatening to dump heavy snow and some ice in several states. A storm that dropped snow in the Midwest was spreading across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys on Wednesday,