US EditionTens of Thousands Face Another Arctic Blast without Power as East Coast Preps for a New Storm
More than 230,000 homes remain without power in Mississippi and Tennessee during an Arctic blast and new storm, with heavy snow and blizzard conditions forecast for the Carolinas and Virginia.
- On Friday, tens of thousands of residents in the Carolinas and Virginia entered their sixth day without power, while poweroutage.us reported over 230,000 outages in Mississippi and Tennessee.
- The National Weather Service says arctic air will plunge temperatures Friday night into the teens, with forecasters expecting blizzard conditions Saturday night into early Sunday in the Carolinas, Virginia and northeast Georgia.
- State and local officials opened about 80 warming centers and sent supplies, distributing more than 600 warming units and over 2,200 gallons of gas and diesel, as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves led relief efforts.
- Health officials urged vigilance about cold exposure and unsafe heating, warning hypothermia can develop within hours in vulnerable groups and indoor heat sources may emit deadly carbon monoxide, said Dr. Zheng Ben Ma and Dr. Abhi Mehrotra.
- Forecasters say the cold will linger into February with heavy weekend snow in parts of North Carolina, while Mississippi officials called this the state's worst winter storm since 1994.
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Power outages across Mississippi and Tennessee persisted as Arctic air and a new East Coast storm threatened snow, blizzard conditions, flooding and prolonged cold, leaving hundreds of thousands vulnerable nationwide.
Tens of thousands of Americans enter 6th day without power as Southeast preps for wild winter storm
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Tens of thousands enter 6th day without power as Carolinas and Virginia prep for a winter storm
The National Weather Service says arctic air will cause already frigid temperatures to plummet into the teens on Friday in cities like Nashville.
Tens of thousands face another arctic blast without power as East Coast preps for a new storm
As tens of thousands of people endured nearly a week with no electricity, another storm loomed on the East Coast where residents braced for near-hurricane force winds, heavy snow and potential flooding.More than 230,000 homes and businesses were without electricity Friday, with the vast majority of those outages in Mississippi and Tennessee, according to the outage tracking website poweroutage.us.In Mississippi’s Lafayette County, where about 12…
Thousands face another arctic blast without power as East Coast preps for a storm
NASHVILLE (AP) — Frustrations were bubbling up Friday for the tens of thousands who have been without power for nearly a week in the U.S. South as a new storm looms, including Tennessee's residents in Nashville, where the utility was criticized for storm preparations and recovery.Terry Miles, a 59-year-old construction worker whose home has been without power since Sunday, said he's using a fish fryer for heat and is worried about carbon monoxid…
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