Officials urge Americans to stay indoors as historic winter storm creates "catastrophic" ice conditions and triggers the largest weather alert ever.

The U.S. workweek opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States.

A powerful winter storm has caused widespread disruption across the United States, killing at least 30 people and knocking out large amounts of oil production and electricity, according to news agency AP .

The storm deaths were reported in New York, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Kentucky and New Jersey, and other deaths were under investigation.

The major winter storm blanketed dozens of US states over the weekend, impacting some 180 million people from the Southwest to New England.

A brutal winter storm has tightened its grip on the central United States, bringing dangerous cold, deep snow and at least one confirmed death in Kansas. The system has turned routine commutes and short walks into life-threatening gambles as wind chills plunge and visibility disappears in blowing snow.

Another snowstorm? Forecasters say a nor'easter could arrive next weekend. But for now, “it’s too early to cheer, panic or change any plans."

After much of the United States was impacted by the recent snowstorm that's been named Winter Storm Fern, many folks are spending their Monday morning shoveling, plowing and hoping for the snow to melt.