THE FUSE

If you’ve gone to the grocery store over the past few days and noticed that the lines are long and shelves are more bare than usual, then you’ve seen how people are preparing for what weather forecasters have warned could be a historic winter storm this weekend. Expected to begin on Friday and last through Monday, CNN reported that winter storm Fern could drop more than a foot of snow, as well as potentially blackout-inducing ice storms across a 1,500-mile swath from Texas to the Northeast, with 10 states already declaring states of emergency.