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A historic winter storm has blasted across a huge swath of the United States, dumping heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands and causing at least 10 deaths as freezing conditions persisted into Monday. Officials warned that an Arctic cold air mass trailing the system would drive temperatures dangerously low for days, compounding travel chaos, flight cancellations and hazardous roads. Widespread power outages hit states from the South to the Northeast, with ice bringing down lines and prompting emergency warnings to stay off the roads. The storm overwhelmed infrastructure in regions unaccustomed to such extremes and prompted states of emergency across much of the country.