A sprawling winter storm packing snow and ice has left over 260,000 customers without power, many in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Parts of Tennessee and Virginia also saw heavy snow. The storm will churn into the Northeast overnight.
. Especially hard hit was North Carolina, with 90,000 outages. The remaining outages were in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.
“That’s my house that’s turned upside down,” he told the newspaper. “The tornado took me off my feet, blew me toward the east wall and buried me under the sink, refrigerator, kitchen chairs and everything else.”“I was so happy when I saw the sky,” Murray told the newspaper. “I said to the devil, ‘It’s not going to be today.’”
“We’re open, but it’s kind of a mess up here,” she said by phone. A tree fell along the highway about a mile south of the store, and crews were working to clear it, she said. Most of the hikers who stopped in Sunday were ascending Blood Mountain on a day hike. At 4,458 feet , it’s the highest peak on Georgia’s portion of the Appalachian Trail.The storm system could cause hazardous driving conditions over a large portion of the eastern U.S. through Monday as the wet roadways refreeze in southern states and the storm turns and moves northward through the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.
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