A mixed precipitation storm led to hundreds of school closings across Connecticut on Thursday. The snow began falling in the morning hours and was expected to leave as many as four inches of accumulation in most parts of Connecticut before changing over to a wintry mix by the early afternoon hours,

Storm Freya whipped from the Midwest into the Northeast Thursday, coating roads in slick ice from Baltimore up the I-95 corridor, making for dangerous commutes and forcing school closures and delayed openings.

Multiple drivers had to be rescued after getting stranded in the floodwaters, authorities in West Virginia said.