Weather The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout Dec. 27, 2012 prev24 of 30next Gene J. Puskar / APPeople walk past a downtown Pittsburgh sculpture as snow falls 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.