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Ice, Snow Spread From Plains to East

Seven killed in storms
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jan 27, 2009 10:08 AM CST
Ice, Snow Spread From Plains to East
Snow is cleared on the White House grounds in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, as a wintry mix hit the Washington area.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Schools closed and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity today as a storm spread a coating of ice and snow on roads and power lines from the southern Plains to the mid-Atlantic states. At least seven deaths had been blamed on the weather. Highway department crews were out in force spreading salt and sand on the accumulating ice.

"The way it's shaping up, it looks like it's going to be a major ice storm," said a meteorologist in Arkansas, where ice had built up as much as an inch thick in one town. Some 5,800 customers were blacked out as ice brought down power lines, a power company said. The National Weather Service posted storm warnings from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia. (More snow stories.)

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