Winter Storm Prompts States of Emergency Across South

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DALLAS — A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into southern U.S. states Jan. 10, prompting governors to declare states of emergency and shuttering schools across the region.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders mobilized the National Guard to help stranded motorists. School was canceled for millions of children across a wide tract of southern states from Texas to Georgia and as far east as South Carolina.

Some of the heaviest snowfall was expected Jan. 10 across the northern half of Arkansas and much of Tennessee, with totals in some parts of those states ranging from 6 to 9 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Farther south and east into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain made travel treacherous.

The storm dumped as much as 7 inches in some spots in central Oklahoma and northern Texas be…