A deadly ice storm stranded scores of people on slick roadways and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of US homes on February 12, as winter-weary Americans dug in against Mother Nature’s latest walloping. The national weather service began warning days ago that a “mammoth dome” of arctic air would settle over the eastern US, creating a “paralyzing ice storm.” In the UK, flood-hit Britain suffered a fresh battering from storms and high winds that caused power outages to nearly 150,000 homes, the cancellation of football matches and the death of one man. The conditions brought chaos for commuters, stranding a train carrying hundreds of passengers after overhead lines came down in Yorkshire, northern England.
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