As a monster winter storm began hitting different parts of eastern United States, one neighborhood outside Nashville was enjoying the snow dump on Saturday (January 24).

Children were seen running and playing in the snow as others shovelled it in a neighborhood in Fairview, Tennessee.

More than 4,000 flights were cancelled in the U.S. on Saturday ahead of the winter storm that has already cut power to more than 100,000 utility customers as far west as Texas, and threatened to paralyze eastern states with heavy snowfall.

Forecasters said snow, sleet and freezing rain, accompanied by dangerously frigid temperatures, would sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation on Sunday and into next week.

The U.S. National Weather Service warned of an unusually expansive and long-duration winter storm that will bring widespread, heavy ice accumulation in the southeast U.S. and cited "crippling to locally catastrophic impacts."

Weather service forecasters predicted record cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills descending further into the Great Plains region of the U.S. by Monday (January 26).

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

FAIRVIEW, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 24, 2026)(STRINGER.COM - Access all)

1. WIDE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH SNOW-COVERED ROOFS AND SNOW PLOW TRUCK PASSING BY

2. CHILDREN TRYING TO SLED IN THE SNOW

3. PERSON SHOVELING SNOW

4. VEHICLE DRIVING IN THE SNOW

5. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN RUNNING AND PLAYING IN THE SNOW