Republican Senator Ted Cruz has confirmed that he left Texas for a Mexico vacation amid a disastrous storm in the state.

Residents across Texas are facing down a monster snowstorm -- something rarely seen in the state, but for one family in the city of Austin, the inclement weather has been a breeze.

A small-town mayor told his 4,000 residents that they should fend for themselves amid a historic and deadly snowstorm.

School buses were cancelled in Peterborough, Northumberland County and the City of Kawartha Lakes on Tuesday after a storm dumped up to 20 cm of snow on the region.

Snow is expected to start spreading across southwestern Nova Scotia starting late on Sunday afternoon before moving northeastward across the remainder of the province that evening.

As the storm intensifies, Montreal is expected to see up to 15 centimetres of snow throughout the day and into Wednesday.

Environment Canada says a developing low-pressure system will make its way up the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday and turn into a 'major storm.'

SGI spokesperson Tyler McMurchy said the company has received 316 auto and 1,745 property claims as of Monday afternoon in relation to last week's wind storm.

Structures throughout Saskatchewan were dealt some of the heaviest blows during Wednesday night’s wind storm.

In New Brunswick, fewer than 540 customers are without power as of 11 a.m., according to the NB Power outage map.