The Northeast is cleaning up after a storm slammed the region with rain, flooding and fierce winds as part of a bout of violent weather that battered most of the U.S. The storm started Tuesday night and is moving out Wednesday after knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. It washed out roads and took down trees and power lines. Wind gusts reached nearly 100 miles per hour in Maine. More windy weather is expected throughout Wednesday. The storm followed a day of tornadoes in the South and blizzards in the Midwest and Northwest. More than 2 feet of snow fell in some parts of the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies.

A sprawling storm has hit the South with high winds and tornado warnings that blew roofs off homes, flipped over campers and tossed about furniture in Florida. Another storm brought cities across the Midwest to a standstill with more than half of foot of snow. as it heads to the Northeast. The National Weather Service says a storm with 55-mph wind and hail moved through the Florida Panhandle and into Alabama and Georgia by sunrise Tuesday, along with reports of radar-confirmed tornadoes. Farther west, up to a foot of snow could blanket a broad area stretching from southeastern Colorado all the way to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses.