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Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry declared a state of emergency for the entire state due to the ice storm. [5] U.S. President George W. Bush later declared Oklahoma a federal disaster area. [6] In Oklahoma, in addition to major tree damage, about 40,000 customers lost power after the first wave of freezing rain on January 12.
Much of the affected areas were already hit by a significant winter storm during the weekend of December 1 and December 2.Many areas had received close to three-quarters of an inch of ice from Nebraska to Illinois, causing tens of thousands of power outages and at least 16 deaths across nine states and the Canadian province of Quebec, the latter receiving a major snow storm.
In Texas, at least 350,000 people were left without power as a result of the storm due to tree limbs and power lines being brought down to ice. Of those 350,000 people, 160,000 were in Austin. [29] This can be contrasted with Winter Storm Uri, wherein 4.5 million people were left without power due to, among other things, demand exceeding supply ...
A glaze of ice encased exposed surfaces and shut down travel from Oklahoma to Illinois on Monday morning. However, even though milder air moving in over much of the Mississippi Valley has helped ...
To the northeast, Arkansas State Police PIO told AccuWeather National Reporter Emmy Victor they responded to at least 400 crashes from the ice storm this week as of Wednesday at 5 p.m. CT.
A dramatic southward push of Arctic air into the eastern two-thirds of the country this week will result in bitterly cold conditions with temperatures trending 20-40 degrees Fahrenheit below ...
The January 2009 North American ice storm was a major ice storm that impacted parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The storm produced widespread power outages for over 2 million people due to heavy ice accumulation. The hardest-hit areas were in Kentucky with over ...
An ice storm has downed trees and cut power to thousands in central Oklahoma on Tuesday, October 27, according to local reports.Oklahoma Gas and Electric said 201,000 customers were without power ...