While Virginia and North Carolina were grappling with a snowstorm, an Arctic blast brought dangerously low temperatures to a vast swath of the U.S.

The winter storm caused thousands of power outages and hundreds of accidents across the state, resulting in at least one death.

Millions remained under winter weather alerts as a major winter storm swept across much of the U.S., bringing heavy snow and freezing temperatures from the Midwest to the Northeast. This video was filmed on Thursday,