This is my december...
(Dec. 5) -- More than 1.6 million homes and businesses were without electricity Thursday from Oklahoma to the Carolinas as a deadly snow and ice storm snapped power lines, canceled airline flights and shut down schools and some government offices.
The storm spread freezing rain and up to a foot of snow from the Texas Panhandle(LINLY!!! SARAH!!!! :() to Virginia on Wednesday, then veered up the East Coast on Thursday. It was blamed for at least 17 deaths, mostly from traffic accidents: six in Kentucky, three each in North Carolina and Missouri, two in Arkansas and South Carolina, and one in Tennessee.
''We've got wrecks everywhere,'' Virginia State Police Sgt. D.A. Shaver said. ''We're calling troopers in to handle the influx, but it will get worse before it gets better.''
''It isn't fun driving sideways,'' commuter John Budnick of Massapequa Park, N.Y., said of morning conditions on Long Island. ''It's getting worse, too.''
Schools were closed Thursday in parts of the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee and Kentucky. A few schools closed in Connecticut and New York City's northern suburbs.
The Carolinas were the hardest hit as freezing rain coated trees and power lines.
It's snowing...a lot here, in NJ. I NEED to get back to Myrtle beach by sunday, no matter what. I got a christmas party that I bought a suit for and everything..so I'll be leaving sat morning/afternoon, get to myrtle beach by 10ish. I gotta. I'm freezing. I'm sad. I need to drive. But what if I crash??
The storm spread freezing rain and up to a foot of snow from the Texas Panhandle(LINLY!!! SARAH!!!! :() to Virginia on Wednesday, then veered up the East Coast on Thursday. It was blamed for at least 17 deaths, mostly from traffic accidents: six in Kentucky, three each in North Carolina and Missouri, two in Arkansas and South Carolina, and one in Tennessee.
''We've got wrecks everywhere,'' Virginia State Police Sgt. D.A. Shaver said. ''We're calling troopers in to handle the influx, but it will get worse before it gets better.''
''It isn't fun driving sideways,'' commuter John Budnick of Massapequa Park, N.Y., said of morning conditions on Long Island. ''It's getting worse, too.''
Schools were closed Thursday in parts of the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee and Kentucky. A few schools closed in Connecticut and New York City's northern suburbs.
The Carolinas were the hardest hit as freezing rain coated trees and power lines.
It's snowing...a lot here, in NJ. I NEED to get back to Myrtle beach by sunday, no matter what. I got a christmas party that I bought a suit for and everything..so I'll be leaving sat morning/afternoon, get to myrtle beach by 10ish. I gotta. I'm freezing. I'm sad. I need to drive. But what if I crash??