Ice Storms Cometh

An overturned vehicle rests alongside a road in Jamestown, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. A series of weather-related wrecks snarled traffic between Jamestown and High Point. Snow and a mix of winter weather made its way through the Triad Thursday, leaving about an inch of snow. Elsewhere, people struggled to recover from ice, snow, and high wind that battered an area from Maine to Texas.

Crews work de-icing jets at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Thursday morning, Jan 18, 2007, in Charlotte, N.C. Snow and sleet blanketed central North Carolina, closing some schools and slowing the morning commute.

Traffic flows through snow flurries on southbound Interstate 35W near downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. Homes and businesses in several states were still without electricity Thursday because of the ice, snow, and high wind that battered an area from Maine to Texas. The snow and ice storm is blamed for 65 deaths in nine states. Blizzard conditions also caused problems north of Los Angeles.

A snowplow-equipped truck clears the way for motorists on a road after a weather front dropped snow on the Santa Monica Mountains, temporarily closing the road, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, in the Malibu, Calif., area.

Icicles hang over a Texas license plate Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, in San Antonio.

Lydia Trevino tries to remove ice that formed on her automobile windshield in San Antonio, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Power lines were still down and highways were treacherous along a wide swath of the U.S., in the wake of storms that earlier had plastered many areas with a heavy shell of ice. The Pacific Northwest was also getting a dose of snow and ice. The death toll from the storm was at least 65 in nine states.

A broken power pole dangles from supports in Buffalo, Mo., Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Residents of the town of 3,000 north of Springfield, Mo., prepared to spend a fourth day without power or water after a series of ice storms swept across the area over the weekend.

While most people bundled up against the weather, Ron Sturtz, of Roseburg, Ore., walked down Jackson Street in shorts Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, in Roseburg. Sturtz says he always wears shorts.

Icicles from freezing rain coat a picnic table in Colonie, N.Y., Monday, Jan. 15, 2007. Power lines were still down and highways were treacherous in parts of the Northeast Tuesday, in the wake of a storm that earlier had plastered the Midwest and Plains with a heavy shell of ice.

Nearly everything outdoors in southern New Hampshire is coated with ice Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, along with this sign on a street corner in Nashua, N.H. The ice caused power outages and downed trees. Winds are expected to gust up to 30 mph Tuesday, creating more havoc in the region.

Traffic maneuvers around a jack-knifed tractor-trailer on the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough, Maine, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, as a winter storm hits the region.

Residents of McAlester, Okla., deal with effects of weekend ice storm, the remnants of which can be seen on power lines and poles Monday, Jan. 15, 2007.

Residents of McAlester, Okla., deal with effects of ice-covered power lines that resemble cob webs hanging across Main Street. Waves of freezing rain, sleet and snow since Friday had been blamed for at least 23 deaths in Oklahoma, 11 in Missouri and 10 in Texas, plus others in Iowa, New York, Michigan, Arkansas, Maine and Indiana.

Judy Schlotter and her husband, Chuck, wait out ice storm at the Multi Purpose Building in Checotah, Okla., Monday, January 15, 2007. The Schlotters also stayed at this shelter during a previous ice storm in December 2000.

Doyle Keith walks up a limb-littered street to his home after picking up a few items from a nearby store, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, in McAlester, Okla.

Athletic director Chris Hamel looks at the Destiny Christian School Gymnasium in Del City, Okla., Monday, Jan.15, 2007, which collapsed on Sunday due to the ice and snow.

Firefighters clear a tree from a road in Grove, Okla., Monday, Jan 15, 2007. The Association of Electric Cooperatives reported nearly 50,000 customers were without power in rural areas across the state.

Leonard Stephens scrapes his car windows of thick ice Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 outside his home in Kirksville, Mo. A weekend storm dumped nearly an inch of ice on Northeast Missouri.

A Texas Department of Transportation sand truck coats a bridge in Arlington, Texas, Sunday morning, Jan. 14, 2007, near an accident from the icy conditions. Arlington police closed the bridge after the accident until the sanding was complete.

An orange tree and its fruit are covered in ice as the result of a sprinkler and freezing temperatures in the front yard of a rural home in Keyes, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007. Three nights of freezing temperatures have destroyed up to three-quarters of California's $1 billion citrus crop, according to an estimate. Other crops, including avocados and strawberries, also suffered damage.