A historic snowstorm struck the Ohio Valley of the United States, as well as Ontario in Canada, on December 22 and 23 and is not the same storm that led to snow in Texas on Christmas Eve.

It lasted roughly 30 hours, and brought snowfall amounts up to 29 inches (74 cm) to portions of the Midwestern United States.

The second bout of wintry precipitation, which lasted about 13 hours, was caused by a surface cyclone in the southern stream of the Westerlies which moved northeast from the coastal bend of Texas early on December 22, moving across northern Louisiana, southeast Arkansas, northwest Mississippi, then across middle Tennessee, through western West Virginia early on December 23, eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Over 20 inches (51 cm) of snow fell across portions of southern Illinois and central Ohio.

Interstate and state highways turned into parking lots as over 100,000 vehicle accidents were caused by the weather.

After the storm, a record low was set on Christmas Day when the temperature fell to −8 °F (−22 °C) at Paducah.

After the storm, a record low was set at Evansville on Christmas Day when the temperature fell to −11 °F (−24 °C).

With the power knocked out to much of Columbus, Ohio, including Woodland Meadows, the boiler system that heated the complex's buildings shut down.

[2] In April 2007, the Columbus City Council voted to tear down Woodland Meadows' 122 buildings, which once housed more than 2,000 government-subsidized tenants.

The antiquated software was only able to accept so many scheduling changes per month, and thus shut down, grounding the airline completely.