Yet another winter storm! Gov. Pat McCrory declares a state of emergency.
Thousands remained without power Friday night (March 7, 2014) in the northern part of Durham after a winter storm wreaked havoc
In fact, the power was still off for hundreds of thousands of households in North Carolina, and forecasters warned that black ice was setting in on roads in the western part of the Triangle.
The National Weather Service even extended a winter weather advisory for several counties until Saturday morning.
The state said 463,000 utility customers were without power at 3:30 p.m., near the apparent peak of the outages. The bulk of the outages were in Orange, Alamance and Guilford counties, the state said.
The outages were shrinking by Friday night, with Duke Energy down to 300,000 customers affected at about 10 p.m.
As of Saturday afternoon, 31,800 customers remained without power. Duke Energy estimated that some customers in the Triad may not get their lights back until Wednesday.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/07/3681218/orange-county-durham-schools-delay.html
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/07/3682838/ice-storm-causes-large-power-outages.html
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