Storm brings ice, rain to Cincy; snow to Cleveland

More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power across the U.S. on Thursday as power companies struggled to keep pace with freezing rain and snow. The heavy wintry weather weighed down tree limbs and encrusted power lines, part of a multiday winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest and triggered weather warnings from Texas to the Northeast.

The highest totals of power outages blamed on icy or downed power lines were concentrated in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and Ohio. Heavy snow was expected from the southern Rockies to northern New England. Parts of Ohio, New York and northern New England were expected to see heavy snowfall as the storm moves to the east with 12 to 18 inches of snow possible in some places, Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland said. The disruptive storm began Tuesday and moved across the central U.S.