Little Rock, AK- Schools closed and thousands of homes and buisnesses without electricity Tuesday as 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 have been blaimed on the weather. Highway crews were out spreading salt and sand on te acumlating ie, and police reported hundreds of accidents.
Ice had built up as much as an inch thick around Mountain Home Ark., and the utility Entergy Arkansas said about 5,800 customers were blacked out as the eight of the ice brought down power lines.
Missouri's Ameren UE reported about 6,000 customers without service.
Thousands more had no electricity in Kentucky as ice up to 1.5 inches thick snapped tree limbs and power lines, and caused short circuits that made transformers blow out.
The National Weather Service posted ice storm and winter storm warnings Tuesday along a broad swath from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
At least seven deaths have been blaimed on the weather. Highway crews were out spreading salt and sand on te acumlating ie, and police reported hundreds of accidents.
Ice had built up as much as an inch thick around Mountain Home Ark., and the utility Entergy Arkansas said about 5,800 customers were blacked out as the eight of the ice brought down power lines.
Missouri's Ameren UE reported about 6,000 customers without service.
Thousands more had no electricity in Kentucky as ice up to 1.5 inches thick snapped tree limbs and power lines, and caused short circuits that made transformers blow out.
The National Weather Service posted ice storm and winter storm warnings Tuesday along a broad swath from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
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