Ice, Snow Wallop Southeast...01/25/00

ATLANTA (AP) - Even with a fire in the fireplace, it was a chilly 47 degrees in Bernadette Martin's house Monday. And like the more than 100,000 other Georgians still without power after an ice storm over the weekend, she was worried about temperatures dropping even lower and the possibility that the electricity may not be turned back on until Tuesday or Wednesday. The storm spread snow, ice and rain and cut off electricity across much of the Southeast. More than a half-million customers lost power in Georgia, and thousands also were blacked out in Alabama and the Carolinas. Preliminary damage estimates in Georgia were $25 million, according to state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine.

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