Thousands in the Charlotte area and elsewhere in the Carolinas remained without power Saturday from the winter storm that started with snow Friday and rapidly transformed to sleet and freezing rain.
Charlotte stayed below freezing overnight , prompting warnings from the National Weather Service about black ice on roads . The temperature inched to the freezing mark of 32 degrees after sunrise.
Black ice is a thin, nearly invisible layer of ice on sidewalks, driveways and roads…