1.  A mixture of sleet and freezing rain will produce treacherous travel conditions from southern Virginia to west-central North Carolina.

2.  A mixture of snow and ice produced treacherous travel around Seattle and other western Washington locations.

3.  Residents across the Plains coped with widespread power outages and treacherous travel early Thursday as freezing rain, frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall pounded the area and pushed eastward.

4.  Residents across the Plains coped with widespread power outages and treacherous travel Thursday as freezing rain, frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall pounded the area and pushed eastward.

5.  Stewart McGough, a First Union Bank employee from Charlotte, described downtown Richmond as a ghost town when he arrived Tuesday night after several hours of treacherous travel.