사진/ AP (Snow covers homes during a winter storm, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel))
(2:05 p.m. ET) Power Outages Drop, But Hundreds Of Thousands Still Affected
About 280,000 homes, businesses and other utility customers are without electricity, down from more than 350,000 this morning. Since each outage can represent multiple people or households on a single account, the number of individuals impacted is even larger.
This is where the most outages are right now, according to PowerOutage.us:
- Virginia – 90,790 outages
- Kentucky – 64,448
- Indiana – 49,904
- West Virginia – 45,514
- Illinois – 34,920
(1:47 p.m. ET) Kansas City: Heaviest Snowstorm In 30+ Years
Eleven inches of snow fell in the city Sunday, making it the heaviest snowstorm there since February 1993.
It was also the fourth-largest one-day snowfall total on record.
The Biggest Snowfall Totals So Far
- 18 inches in Chapman and St. George, Kansas
- 13 inches in Cameron and St. Joseph, Missouri
- 11 inches in Mason, West Virginia
- 10 inches in Racine, Ohio
- 9.5 inches in Chatham, Illinois, and Columbus, Indiana.
- 8.4 inches in Hebron, Kentucky
- 8 inches in Arkendale, Virginia
- 7.4 inches in Leonardtown, Maryland
(8:53 a.m. ET) Power Outages Top 350,000
More than 357,000 customers are without power as a winter storm spreads snow, ice and heavy wind, PowerOutage.us reports.
The power outages stretch across seven states:
- Texas: 11,777 outages
- Missouri: 33,943 outages
- Illinois: 39,026 outages
- Indiana: 50,964 outages
- Kentucky: 87,854 outages
- West Virginia: 44,307 outages
- Virginia: 89,606 outages