Powerful storm threatens an East Coast still buried under last week's snow

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About 240 cardinal radical were nether acold upwind advisories and wintertime tempest warnings Saturday arsenic a almighty strategy threatened to bring howling winds, flooding and dense snowfall to the East Coast arsenic the portion continued to excavation retired from last week's frigid wintertime weather.

Temperatures were plummeting connected Saturday, with a debased of minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit recorded successful West Virginia, said Bob Oravec, the pb meteorologist for the National Weather Service successful College Park, Maryland.

More than 127,000 homes and businesses, mostly successful Mississippi and Tennessee, stay without powerfulness aft past week's storm, according to poweroutage.us.

In Nashville, Tennessee, wherever temperatures were successful the teens connected Saturday and much than 47,000 are still without power, frustrations bubbled. Terry Miles, 59, said his location has not had powerfulness since Sunday. He is utilizing a food fryer for heat, though helium worries astir the dangers of c monoxide.

"I'm taking a accidental of sidesplitting myself and sidesplitting my wife, due to the fact that — Why?" Miles said aft attending a Nashville Electric Service quality league intended to showcase the utility's repairs connected poles and lines. He past pointed to officials.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said helium shared "strong concerns" with the enactment of Nashville Electric Service, adding that residents "need a wide timeline for powerfulness restoration, transparency connected the fig of linemen deployed, and a amended knowing of erstwhile enactment volition beryllium completed successful their neighborhood." The inferior has defended its response, saying the tempest that struck past play was unprecedented.

More snowfall successful the South

Parts of the confederate Appalachians, the Carolinas and Georgia could spot 6 to 10 inches of snow, Oravec said. The Carolinas could spot blizzard conditions overnight stemming from a bomb cyclone, a word Oravec utilized to picture an intense, rapidly strengthening tempest strategy disconnected the Southeast seashore packing beardown winds.

"Anytime you person acold upwind advisories oregon utmost acold warnings, it is unsafe to beryllium outside. Frostbite tin occur," Oravec said. "Especially successful areas that person oregon are experiencing powerfulness issues still, prolonged vulnerability to acold upwind is not bully for yourself."

In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — whose authoritative seal is the sun, thenar trees and a seagull — 6 inches of snowfall was expected. The metropolis has nary snowfall removal equipment, and authorities planned to "use what we tin find," Mayor Mark Kruea said.

Subfreezing upwind was forecast into February, with dense snowfall successful the Carolinas, Virginia and northeast Georgia implicit the weekend, including up to a ft successful parts of North Carolina. Snow was besides said to beryllium imaginable from Maryland to Maine.

Grappling with freezing temperatures

Seventy-six radical person died from Texas to New Jersey, according to information collected by CBS News. Causes of decease included hypothermia oregon exposure, c monoxide poisoning, and accidents similar sledding crashes. Officials person not released circumstantial details astir immoderate deaths.

Experts warned of the increasing risks of hypothermia. Frostbite was besides a interest successful the South, wherever immoderate radical whitethorn deficiency sufficiently lukewarm clothing, said Dr. David Nestler, an exigency medicine specializer astatine the Mayo Clinic successful Minnesota. Wind chills volition plunge good beneath zero crossed overmuch of the region, with values adjacent -20 degrees Fahrenheit successful parts of the Ohio Valley connected Sunday morning.

In North Carolina, hundreds of National Guard soldiers readied to assistance and authorities workers worked to hole roads.

The metropolis of Wake Forest saw a dependable watercourse of radical filling propane tanks Friday astatine Holding Oil and Gas, including José Rosa, who arrived aft striking retired astatine 3 different places.

"I'm present successful this acold weather, and I don't similar it," Rosa said arsenic helium held a 20-pound tank.

In Dare County, location to overmuch of North Carolina's Outer Banks, residents disquieted that much unoccupied houses successful communities similar Rodanthe and Buxton could illness into the Atlantic Ocean.

The frigid acold is expected to plunge arsenic acold southbound arsenic Florida. For parts of Southern Florida, it volition beryllium the coldest aerial seen successful decades. Sunday and Monday are apt to acceptable records.

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