Tens of thousands face another arctic blast without power as East Coast preps for a new storm
BELZONI, Miss. (AP) — As tens of thousands of people endured nearly a week with no electricity, another storm loomed on the East Coast where residents braced for near-hurricane force winds, heavy snow and potential flooding. More than 230,000 homes and businesses were without electricity Friday, with the vast majority of those outages in Mississippi and Tennessee, according to the outage tracking website poweroutage. us. In Mississippi’s Lafayette County, where about 12,000 people were he...
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