The fallout of winter storm Fran are beginning to be known today. It was historic in South Carolina as the first ice storm warning in the Greenville-Spartanburg area was issued in more than 20 years.
More than 11-thousand flights were canceled yesterday, making it one of the biggest weather-related flight cancellation days in US History. At least 2,500 flights had already been canceled for today as of last night.
Some details from around the country:
- The Louisiana Department of Health announced yesterday that at least two people from the state died from hypothermia over the weekend
- The body of a Kansas woman was found covered in snow yesterday near where she was last seen in Emporia, a small city between Wichita and Topeka
- Tennessee has reported three weather-related deaths from the storm
- A Mississippi man was killed after an ice-covered tree fell onto his mobile home
- A Massachusetts woman has died after she and her husband were struck by a snowplow truck
- At least one person died in Austin, Texas; officials say one person was found dead in the parking lot of an abandoned gas station early yesterday morning
- Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were hit the hardest with power outages; almost a million customers were without power as of late yesterday
- Residents in Tippah County in northeast Mississippi, one of the hardest hit areas in the US got an unwelcome update yesterday; saying the system sustained “catastrophic damage” from the ice, a press release from Tippah Electric Power Association said it’s looking at “weeks instead of days” to fully restore power
- The Dallas Mavericks-Milwaukee Bucks game yesterday was postponed because the storm kept the Mavericks from leaving Dallas