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A deadly winter storm gripped the southeastern United States on Wednesday, crippling travel, grounding flights, knocking out power to 363,000 customers and encasing magnolia and palmetto trees in ice.
The weather was blamed for at least 13 deaths in the region, including three people killed when an ambulance transporting a patient skidded off an icy road in Carlsbad, Texas.
Winter storm warnings and advisories were in place from east Arkansas to much of the Atlantic coast, the US National Weather Service said. The storm is expected to sock the northeastern region in the next two days with up to 38 cm of snow.
"We definitely consider this to be a high-impact event, and we're definitely telling everyone to stay off the roads and stay inside as much as possible," said Carl Barnes, a weather service forecaster in Sterling, Virginia.
Snow and freezing rain that pummeled South Carolina and North Carolina created a dangerous commute for drivers in a hurry to get home as the snowfall got heavier and the ice thickened.
A possibly historic accumulation of ice as well as heavy snow was expected to add up to nearly 20 cm of frozen precipitation for Charlotte, North Carolina, and 23 cm were forecast for Spartanburg, South Carolina, meteorologists said.
More than 2.5 cm of ice was possible from central Georgia into South Carolina by Thursday morning, according to forecasters.
Traffic on interstate highways ground to a halt, and at least one snowplow went off a North Carolina highway into a ditch.
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