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Ice Produces Power Outages, Closes Schools
December 15, 2005
Associated Press
ATLANTA - Freezing rain and ice jolted the South on Thursday, closing schools, snarling traffic and knocking out power to about 300,000 customers from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C.
The outages were caused by ice - up to half an inch thick - that formed on tree limbs and fell onto power lines. About 190,000 were reported without power in western North Carolina and South Carolina's upstate, 57,000 in the Atlanta area and nearly 50,000 across parts of northeast Georgia.
Ten school systems were closed in Georgia and more than a dozen closed in North Carolina, where mountain communities in the western part of the state were told to expect 1 to 3 inches of snow and sleet.
The weather also caused delays of more than an hour at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Forecasters expected the temperatures to increase above freezing across much of the region by Thursday afternoon, but then dip back into the 20s overnight.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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