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.
The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout
Mark Duncan / AP
The Ohio Turnpike in North Ridgeville, Ohio, during the start of a major winter storm on Dec. 26, 2012. The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings for a swath of Ohio, from the Indiana border stretching northeast to the Lake Erie region.
