US EditionMississippi Officials Sending 135 Snow Plows to Clear Ice and Snow that Caused Huge Traffic Jams on Two Interstates
Mississippi deployed 135 snow plows and National Guard citizen-soldiers to clear icy I-55 and I-22 after a weekend storm stranded motorists and caused widespread power outages.
- On Wednesday before dawn, Mississippi National Guard citizen-soldiers with wreckers began arriving to clear I-55 and I-22 while Red Banks officials urged ATV owners to assist stranded motorists.
- Following a weekend storm, sheets of ice covered highways in Red Banks, Mississippi, causing vehicles to stall and block ramps amid below-freezing forecasts by the National Weather Service.
- Poweroutage.us tracked more than 380,000 homes and businesses without electricity, and Lacey Clancy, cafe worker near I-22 and Highway 178, said `The highway kind of looks like a parking lot.`
- At least 50 people had been reported dead in states hit by the dangerous cold, and a Nashville hospital reported a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases.
- Forecasters warned of an increasing chance of heavy snow this weekend in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia amid a prolonged freeze that could be the longest in several decades.
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Conditions were becoming more extreme in parts of the south that were still recovering from under-zero temperatures and widespread power outages as vehicles were stranded for hours on major roads and authorities warned on Wednesday that people trapped in their homes were running out of food, medicine and other essential items. Mississippi sent 135 snowslides and National Guard troops equipped with cranes to sections of interstate roads 55 and 22…
Mississippi sending 135 snowplows to help clear ice and snow from traffic-clogged highways
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials sent National Guard troops, tow trucks and 135 snowplows Wednesday to clear snow and ice from two interstate highways where massive traffic jams began piling up a day earlier on the frozen, slippery roadways.No injuries were reported, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said. One traveler told The Associated Press she feared she might freeze to death on Interstate 22, where her car sat idle for…
Mississippi sending 135 snowplows to help clear ice and snow from traffic-clogged highways - WXXV News 25
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN Mississippi officials said they were sending 135 snowplows Wednesday to clear ice and snow from two interstate highways where frozen conditions caused huge traffic jams. Emergency officials said they were rushing supplies to drivers stalled along ice-covered stretches of Interstates 55 and 22 in northern Mississippi, an area still reeling from a weekend winter storm that blasted parts of the South and the Northeas…
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