Byline: Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A blast of freezing rain across Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday closed schools, snarled traffic and caused power outages to more than 450,000 customers. At least one death was blamed on the storm when an ice-laden tree crashed through a man's house.
"Ice is our greatest nemesis, much worse than snow," said Lucinda Trew, spokeswoman for Duke Power, the main provider of electricity in the hardest-hit parts of the Carolinas. The storm's powerful reach was heading north along the East Coast today.
The widespread outages were caused by the ice that formed on tree limbs and fell onto power lines.
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