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At least three people have died and thousands of homes are running out of electricity in the Carolinas and Virginia this morning after a storm has caused the accumulation of 60 centimeters of snow in parts of the southeastern United States. .
One person died of a heart problem while visiting a shelter and a terminally ill patient died after his oxygen therapy equipment stopped functioning, said in a statement the office of the governor of North Carolina, North Carolina.
Police reported that a driver also died in southwestern North Carolina when a tree fell on his vehicle on Sunday (9).
More than 70,000 customers in the region remained powerless Tuesday (11) at 5 am, against 220,000 Monday, announced Poweroutage.us. Climate warnings were still in place.
"The danger is black ice, a hard-to-see ice on the streets, caused by snowmelt," said David Roth, a weather forecaster at the National Weather Service's Weather Forecast Center at College Park. Maryland.
"It will be a risk the following mornings, probably until Thursday morning, before we see persistent temperatures above the freezing point in the region."
Because of the frozen streets, dozens of schools canceled or postponed clbades Tuesday in northern Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Many government offices also postponed Tuesday opening to non-essential staff.
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