Weather The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout Dec. 27, 2012 prev26 of 30next Larry Roberts / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / ZUMA PRESSAs thick winter snow falls people wait to cross the street in Pittsburgh 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.