The heaviest snow from this weekend’s storm will start moving offshore on Monday, but 185 million people were under winter weather alerts and the system will bring bitterly cold temperatures to the eastern two-thirds of the country.
The weather has been blamed for the deaths of at least nine people: three in Tennessee, two in Louisiana, two in Texas, one in Kansas and one in Massachusetts, according to local officials.
One of the newly announced fatalities came on Sunday in a sledding accident in Frisco, Texas, north of Dallas, involving two 16-year-old girls being pulled by a 16-year-old boy driving a Jeep Wrangler, according to a “preliminary investigation” by police…