The storm was making air travel extremely difficult in some parts of the South.
The nation's hardest-hit airport — Charlotte Douglas International — remained open around dawn Sunday, the airport said in a weather briefing. But more than 1,000 Sunday flights in Charlotte have been cancelled — more than 80% of the airport's Sunday schedule, according to the flight tracking service In Atlanta, where Delta Air Lines operates it main hub, more than 300 Sunday flights have been canceled.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation said Sunday that Interstate 95 was closed in both directions between Lumberton and Fayetteville due to low-hanging power lines. Freezing rain had been reported in the area. Transportation officials advised drivers to take a detour and said they hope to reopen the road by 2 p.m.. Especially hard hit was Georgia, with nearly 110,000 outages. South Carolina had nearly 90,000 customers without power.
In Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, crews pretreated roads, but officials still urged people to stay off them. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said in a tweet that some roads in East Tennessee were snow-covered and that troopers were working several accidents due to ice. Edward Murray, 81, told the Naples Daily News that he was inside his mobile home Sunday morning when a tornado picked it up and tossed it on top of his neighbor's home.
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