Sunday, March 4, 2012

Ice storm in central US grounds airliners, knocks out power and is blamed for 5 deaths

An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands in a swath across the central United States as even colder weather threatened.

The wintry weather was expected to continue through midweek, and ice storm warnings stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania.

"Tomorrow may be even more of a dilemma than today because we're going to get even a little bit more colder," said John Pike, a meteorologist in the Weather Service's office in Norman, Oklahoma, on Sunday.

Six traffic deaths were …

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