LAS CRUCES, N.M., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A storm system that dumped 4 inches of snow on parts of New Mexico a day earlier was heading east toward the southern Appalachians, meteorologists said Tuesday.
AccuWeather.com said the fast-moving system is expected to deliver snow from northeastern Tennessee into Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, by Wednesday night or early Thursday.
The heaviest snow is expected along the Interstate 81 corridor in Virginia, Interstate 84 in Pennsylvania, New York and southern New England and part of Interstate 95 in New England. Heavy snow is also forecast for some part of the West Virginia mountains, eastern Kentucky and northeastern Tennessee, AccuWeather.com said.
Interstates and highways in New Mexico reopened Tuesday but icy conditions were likely to continue and residents were urged to stay inside and keep warm, the Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News said.
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In Southern California, the National Weather Service said temperatures Tuesday would drop into the 30s in the Los Angeles Basin and inland valleys. Frost is possible overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, the weather service said.
About 9,000 Southern California Edison customers were still without electric service Tuesday, five days after a major windstorm tore through the region. Los Angeles County supervisors criticized the power company's response to the outages caused by the windstorm, citing poor communication between the utility and more than 400,000 customers in the San Gabriel Valley area, the Los Angeles Times reported.
A spokeswoman for Edison had said the power company relied on the media to get important information out to the public but Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said that was "stupid" because so many customers lacked phones, radio, television or Internet service because of the outage.
"The media only works if you have electricity," he said. "They need to turn on the television."
Southern California Edison said the storm resulted in the worst disaster the company has had to deal with in 30 years.
