BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A battering winter storm left 1.7 million homes and businesses without power across the United States on Saturday, as millions more people were left to worry how the pros…
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG
Pennsylvania-based PJM Interconnection said power plants are having difficulty operating in the frigid weather and has asked residents in 13 states to refrain from unnecessary use of electricity. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides electricity to 10 million people in Tennessee and parts of six surrounding states, directed local power companies on Saturday to implement planned interruptions to “ensure power system reliability.
Across the country, the storm forced the closure of highways and crashes, exposure and storm damage have killed at least a dozen people, officials said. Four died in a massive pileup involving some 50 vehicles on the Ohio Turnpike. A Kansas City, Missouri, driver was killed Thursday after skidding into a creek, and three others died Wednesday in separate crashes on icy northern Kansas roads.
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