Freshly fallen snow and heavy rain can all make a rush-hour commute frustrating, but freezing rain is perhaps the most deceiving and destructive of all winter precipitation. Simply put ...

Neighboring residents shared similar stories of damage during that freeze. Water coming through their ceiling, their floors covered in about three inches of it and all of their furniture saturated.

The mix of freezing rain will end in Washington by 10 a.m. ET and in New York by noon, and the mix of snow and freezing rain will end by 4 p.m. in Boston. Up to half an inch of ice is expected ...