The storm, which brought snow to the South, was expected to chug along the Appalachians and into the Northeast on Sunday. In the Carolinas, power failures were likely from damaging ice.
A strong winter storm brought heavy snow to parts of the Southeast and was expected to leave about a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Sunday, with damaging ice possible in the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic States, making travel hazardous and power outages likely. In the South, where some governors declared states of emergency on Friday, areas such as central Mississippi had already received up to six inches of snow, while portions of Tennessee and Alabama received a mixture of snow and freezing rain, the National Weather Service said. “This storm is going to be pretty significant in terms of generating travel impacts, outages and things of that nature,” said Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the Weather Service. In Georgia, nearly 90,000 customers were without power on Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us, which aggregates data from utilities across the United States. South Carolina had nearly 95,000 customers without power, and North Carolina had about 35,000.
