Sydney Brink / Sedalia Democrat via AP
Tedd Hendrix, of Sedalia, Mo., frees a line of cable from downed branches Tuesday as he works to tie the line off so that it is elevated and out of the road. A snow storm, the second in less than a week, dumped about a foot of snow in Sedalia, knocking out power around the town and collapsing the roofs of several buildings.
By John Newland and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
Forecasters warned of ice, snow and difficult travel in the Midwest and parts of New York and New England on Wednesday as a winter storm headed northeast after bringing high winds, heavy rain and snow to a large swath of the country.?
In the Midwest, the National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for Wednesday -- some stretching into Thursday -- for parts of Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Heavily populated areas, including Milwaukee, suburban Chicago, northern suburbs of Detroit and Des Moines, Iowa, were also under warnings.
By 7:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, about 100 flights into and out of Chicago had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com. More than 500 flights at the city?s O?Hare International and Midway airports were canceled amid snow and sleet on Tuesday, NBC Chicago reported.
The weather may also have disrupted voting in Chicago for a special election primary to fill the seat of indicted Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.
In the Northeast, the storm was expected to bring snow and ice to New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and parts of Maine beginning Wednesday morning and continuing through Thursday afternoon.
New York City and other major cities such as Boston were forecasted to mostly escape the heavy weather. But commuters in New York slogged through heavy wind and rain to get to work early on Wednesday. Upstate New York and northern parts of New England were expected to see further snow through Wednesday into the evening.
?It?s going to linger for a long time over portions of the Northeast,? meteorologist Brian Korty told Reuters.
The storm's biggest impact so far has been in parts of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.
In Texas, winds gusted to 84 mph near El Paso, according to Weather.com, which reported 7-foot snow drifts in Silverton, south of Amarillo.
The 19 inches of snowfall in Amarillo on Monday set a 120-year record, meteorologist Krissy Scotten told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. The city in the Texas Panhandle usually sees an average of just under 18 inches for the entire winter, Scotten said.
Full coverage from Weather.com
To the east, parts of Missouri got more than a foot of snow, and Kansas City had received 8 inches with more falling Wednesday morning.
At least three people have been reported killed by the storm in the Southern Plains, two of them on Monday.
A roof collapsed under heavy snow, killing a person inside a house, and a 21-year-old man died when his SUV overturned on an icy patch of Interstate 70. On Tuesday, a woman in a pickup truck died in accident on an icy strip of road.
More than 1,000 flights were cancelled Tuesday, including 809 in Chicago and 167 in Kansas City.
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This story was originally published on Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:01 AM EST
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