CINCINNATI, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Winter storms moved east from the Midwest Wednesday after knocking out electrical power to more than 100,000 customers in Ohio and Kentucky.
At midday, nearly 59,000 Duke Energy customers in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky were still blacked out after up to 20 inches of snow blanketed the area, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Snow and ice caused transportation problems from Pittsburgh to the Mid-Atlantic States as freezing rain turned to snow-covered ice.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said city garbage collection was canceled because of ice and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board ordered liquor stores to close as temperatures dipped in wind-driven snow.
Blizzard-like conditions caused multi-vehicle crashes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Many schools and shopping malls closed for the day and the Pittsburgh Zoo said it would not reopen until Saturday.
More than 106,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers were without power because of high winds in an ice storm.
The Baltimore Sun said most of the outages were due to tree limbs falling on power lines. Storms pounded the Northeast with blizzard conditions from New York State to northern New England.
