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About 300,000 without power in US after storm

December 11, 2018 00:00:00


A man passing through a snow-covered road in a storm-hit area — Internet

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters): About 300,000 people in the US southeast were without power on Monday and hundreds of flights were canceled after a storm dumped 20 inches of snow and left one motorist dead.

The storm headed out to sea but the region will stay cold this week, the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center said.

"This remains a dangerous system even as it moves off the coast," said lead NWS forecaster Michael Schichtel. "It's slow to move off the Carolinas but a saving grace is that it won't hit New England."

One motorist died outside Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday, and divers searched for a driver whose 18-wheeler was found in a river in Kinston, North Carolina, a NBC affiliate in Raleigh reported.


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