Ice from winter storm leaves hundreds of thousands of customers without power across the South

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54% : That means the ice and snow won’t melt as fast, which could hinder some efforts to restore power and other infrastructure.Along the Gulf Coast, temperatures were balmy Sunday, hitting the high 60s and low 70s, but thermometers were expected to drop into the high 20s and low 30s there by Monday morning.
49% : Tree branches and power lines snapped under the weight of ice, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Southeast were left without electricity.The ice and snowfall were expected to continue into Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, which could cause “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said.
49% : Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while “catastrophic ice accumulation” threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.“It is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread,” weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview.
49% : but she feared the juice might not last long as ice-heavy limbs from mature oak and pecan trees continued to crash around her house.
39% : Bitter cold makes things worseEven once the ice and snow stop falling, the danger will continue, Santorelli warned.“Behind the storm it’s just going to get bitterly cold across basically the entirety of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, east of the Rockies,” she said.

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