Major blizzards in United States
-Heavy winter snowstorm has blanketed the US Midwest today. The region's first big storm of the season dumped more than 30 centimetres of snow in parts of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
-Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has issued a state of emergency.
-Storm has cut power to more than 40,000 households and businesses in Iowa.
-Blizzard warnings were also issued in Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois.
-Airlines cancelled more than 150 flights at Chicago's bustling O'Hare airport. Flights through smaller airports in Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota were also cancelled Thursday morning.
A tornado peeled the roofs from buildings, toppled trucks, and blew down oak trees and limbs in the Mobile area, Alabama, USA early Thursday, leading to road closures but there were no reports of major injuries.
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