Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 14, 1994 TAG: 9402140072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
"There will still be some people without power as late as Thursday," said Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Parts of the Northeast, still digging out from last week's heavy snowfall from the 12th in a series of storms, got a thin coating of ice Sunday. Dozens of accidents were reported, including one 20-car pileup in Massachusetts in which no one was seriously injured.
But for the first time in weeks, the Northeast had no more heavy snow forecast in the foreseeable future.
"Maybe a little bit Wednesday or Thursday, but it would be very little," said Lee Czepyha, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton, Mass. "It doesn't look like there are going to be any big snowstorms into next weekend."
Tennessee was especially hard-hit by last week's storm, which began Thursday with freezing rain from the southern Plains to the East Coast and then turned northward with heavy snow.
Whaley estimated that 128,000 households, or more than 250,000 people, were still waiting for workers to clear broken tree limbs and reconnect power lines. Workers had restored power to about 535,000 customers.
Utility workers in Maryland fought to keep up with outages Sunday as trees continued to crack. Utilities said more than 50,000 customers were still blacked out.
Lynchburg, Va., remained under an overnight curfew Sunday night for the third straight night. The city had no street lights and businesses had no alarm systems, said Barry Martin, the city's deputy coordinator of emergency services.
Approximately 6,000 customers awaited reconnection in West Virginia.
by CNB