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[STORMREPORTS] Deadly Snow Snaps Power Lines in South (AP)

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 06:27:42 EST

Deadly Snow Snaps Power Lines in South (Associated Press)

More than 1.6 million homes and businesses were without electricity
Thursday from Oklahoma to the Carolinas as a deadly snow and ice storm
snapped power lines, canceled airline flights and shut down schools and
some government offices. The storm spread freezing rain and up to a foot of
snow from the Texas Panhandle to Virginia on Wednesday, then veered up the
East Coast on Thursday.

It was blamed for at least 17 deaths, mostly from traffic accidents: six in
Kentucky, three each in North Carolina and Missouri, two in Arkansas and
South Carolina, and one in Tennessee. Schools were closed Thursday in
parts of the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey,
Tennessee and Kentucky. A few schools closed in Connecticut and New York
City's northern suburbs.

Duke Power said about 1.2 million customers were blacked out Thursday in
North and South Carolina, far surpassing the record number affected when
Hurricane Hugo tore through the region in 1989. The utility said it could
be days before electricity is restored. Carolina Power & Light reported a
peak of 466,000 customers without service. Other utilities in the
Carolinas also had hundreds of thousands of customers without power.

For the full story, go to:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021206/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm_31 

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