At least 17 states in the US have declared a state of emergency due to a massive winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine

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A massive winter storm that lashed the United States over the weekend is expected to cost the country more than $100 billion after dumping a foot or more of snow on 17 different states and leaving at least 16 people dead.

Winter Storm Fern battered the country starting on Friday, bringing rare snowfall to Texas and Oklahoma before it made its way east through Sunday night.

The monster weather system has dumped a foot or more of snow in at least 17 states from New Mexico to New Hampshire, with the most recorded in Bonito Lake, New Mexico, which recorded 31 inches of slush, according to the National Weather Service.

Further east, the highest totals were recorded in western Pennsylvania, where 20 inches had fallen as of early Monday morning.

But it was also the largest snowstorm in Boston in nearly four years, delivering snowfall totals of a foot to two feet across much of the region.

AccuWeather forecasters now say they expect the storm to cost the US between $105 billion to $115 billion – making it the costliest severe weather event since the Los Angeles wildfires last year.

That figure accounts for damage to homes and businesses, disruptions to commerce and supply chain logistics, tourism losses, impacts to shipping operations, financial losses from extended power outages, major travel delays and infrastructure damage.

As of early Monday morning, nearly 830,000 people were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us, which monitors outages across the nation.

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