A powerful and far-reaching winter storm continues to impact large portions of the United States today, disrupting daily life across multiple regions and reinforcing how vulnerable modern systems remain to prolonged extreme weather. The storm, which first began sweeping across the country earlier this winter, has evolved into a nationwide event with lingering effects that are still being felt from the Southeast through the Midwest, the Northeast, and parts of the South. The scale of the storm has been one of its defining features. Heavy snowfall, freezing rain, and dangerously low temperat