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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Snow, ice blast through South with powerful winter storm |
| 2022-01-17 |
| ATLANTA (AP) — A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice swept through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze. Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Highway patrols reported hundreds of vehicle accidents, and a tornado ripped through a trailer park in Florida. More than 1,200 Sunday flights at Charlotte Douglas International were cancelled — more than 90% of the airport’s Sunday schedule, according to the flight tracking service flightaware.com. Winter Storm Izzy dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in some areas of western North Carolina as the system moved across the southeastern U.S., said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. First Sgt. Christopher Knox, a North Carolina Highway Patrol spokesperson, said that by midafternoon, the agency had responded to 300 car crashes and nearly 800 calls for service. Two people died Sunday when their car drove off the road and into trees in a median east of Raleigh. The driver and passenger, both 41-year-old South Carolina residents, were pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle crash. Knox said investigators believe the car was driving too fast for the conditions, described as mixed winter precipitation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 S'Ok they've got it under control |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-01-17 11:46 |
| #4 JenPsaki tweeted that she didn't understand why DC shut down because of 1" of snow She thought it was a reference to Hunter's favorite DC pastime. (Her boss called him, "My beautiful son... the most brilliant man I know...") |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-17 10:47 |
| #3 ^ well, we now have 1970s-style inflation, crime, corruption and incompetence again, so might as well bring back streaking. Just hold off on disco, 'k? |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-17 10:44 |
| #2 amusingly Jen Psaki tweeted that she didn't understand why DC shut down because of 1" of snow this was just 10 minutes after public officials in DC, VA, and MD urged people to stay off roads |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-01-17 10:42 |
| #1 Snow jogging, a new North Georgia fitness trend. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-17 10:18 |