The storm, expected to intensify as it moved north and carried significant snowfall to the Mid-Atlantic States, knocked out power to at least 250,000 people in the Carolinas and Georgia earlier on Wednesday. But most people in the Atlanta metropolitan area heeded to remain home this morning after a couple of inches of snow paralyzed the city on Jan. 28, as my colleague Kim Severson reported.
Georgia Power charted on its online map scattered failures affecting more than 140,000 customers. “We do expect an increasing number of outages as the freezing rain continues,” utility officials said. More than 6,000 workers, including crew members from around the country, were working to repair downed lines.