Weather The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout Dec. 27, 2012 prev25 of 30next Wang Lei / XINHUA / LANDOVPeople walk in a winter storm in Manhattan on Dec. 26, 2012. Share Read Later Tornadoes. Snow. Ice. Downpours. Only hours after opening Christmas presents, Americans were confronting, and coping with, severe weather across a wide swath of the country.