(Rochester, NY-AP) January 16, 2007 - A winter storm that's now blamed for 42 deaths in seven states has blown out of New England, after leaving up to ten inches of snow in western Maine.
The icy weather prompted scores of schools to cancel classes or open late Tuesday in New Hampshire and in upstate New York.
Schools also are closed Tuesday in Austin and in San Antonio, Texas, after a remnant of the storm system spread more sleet and snow Tuesday.
In much of the northeast, the spring-like temperatures of early January are now just a memory - replaced by a coating of ice that snapped tree limbs and shorted-out transformers, and made highways dangerous.
A wave of arctic air that followed the storm has dropped temperatures into the single-digits Tuesday as far south as Kansas and Missouri. It was just two degrees Tuesday morning in Kansas City. In Bismarck, North Dakota, there was a reading of 16 below.
More than half of the blacked-out homes and businesses in New York are now back on line, but that still leaves more than 50,000 without service.
In Missouri, more than 200,000 customers still have no electricity.
Posted 9:46am by Bryce Mursch
