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Ice from winter storm leaves a million customers without power across the South
- On Sunday, PowerOutage.us reported about 1 million customers without power across the South as a massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow up through New England.
- Ice accumulation in Nashville and nearby areas overloaded local trees and utility lines, with roughly a half inch of ice snapping branches and causing widespread outages.
- More than 9,600 U.S. flights were cancelled for Sunday, with over 4,000 cancelled on Saturday, as flight tracking website FlightAware reported about 213 million people under winter weather warnings.
- Local utility crews were pulled from roads due to life-threatening conditions, slowing repairs while the Federal Emergency Management Agency pre-positioned supplies and President Donald Trump approved emergency declarations Saturday.
- Forecasters said ice and snow would continue through Monday, threatening almost 180 million people and prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts, the National Weather Service said.
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The severe winter storm in the US has now affected 190 million residents. A state of emergency has been declared in at least 20 states. More than one million customers have experienced power outages. More than 11,000 flights have been canceled.
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Ice from winter storm leaves hundreds of thousands of customers without power across the South
Hundreds of thousands customers were without power Sunday as a massive winter storm coated tree branches and power lines with heavy ice across the South. Tennessee and Mississippi were particularly hard hit. The ice and snowfall were expected to continue…
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