Good luck to all the grocery store workers over the next few days. The biggest snow storm in years could rock the region this weekend, as the National Weather Service’s Boston office has issued a “Winter Storm Watch” from Sunday morning through Monday evening.

More than 170 million people are on alert for a massive weekend storm that stretches from New Mexico to Maine, and is expected to paralyze the South with dangerous ice and snow. At least 15 states declare state of emergency At least 15 states have declared a state of emergency as the storm nears: Alabama,