Jan. 11 (UPI) — Parts of Georgia and Carolinas are digging out from a winter storm n Saturday after it produced heavy snow, freezing rain and ice across the region, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Georgia Power said early Saturday it had restored power to more than 230,000 customers since the start of the storm 24 hours earlier. Less than 60,000 of its customers remained impacted by early in the day.
“Crews are in the field now and the company expects that nearly all impacted customers who can receive power, will be reconnected today,” the utility said in a statement .
The storm brought metro Atlanta 2.1 inches of snow on Friday, a daily record and the first snowfall over an inch since 2018…