Traveling to your Thanksgiving destination may be smoother than heading home, with a cross-country storm possibly bringing rain and snow to parts of the Northeast and Midwest.

Bracing for record holiday travel by planes, trains and automobiles -- 31 million people are expected to fly this Thanksgiving holiday.

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat," an official said.