What's Next?

For once, it was actually as bad as they promised. What began Sunday amid forecasters' dire warnings quickly overwhelmed the country from the Atlantic coast to western Kentucky, killing 86 people, piling drifts as high as 20 feet at New York airports and icing highways in an ill-prepared Atlanta. The ride is not quite over. An aftershock of sorts dusted Washington with more snow Tuesday as a weaker storm headed for New England. And by Friday, another large storm will form along the southern coast that is expected to provide a memorable echo of Sunday's deluge. "One computer model, the one that predicted the last storm, says that it will track up the coast and produce heavy snow, especially in the New England area," meteorologist Tom Moore of the National Weather Service tells TIME Daily. "Another model says that the storm might turn around the Carolinas and head out to sea. It's still a bit up in the air right now." Moore says two "Storms of the Century" are unlikely to occur in the same week. "It could be that you would see significant amounts of snow, but it's unlikely that 30 inches would fall again, because much of the atmospheric energy that helped produce the last storm has dissipated."