Along a great stretch of the country from Michigan to the Atlantic coast, the lights will be out beyond Christmas.
Nearly 400,000 homes were without electricity on Tuesday after severe ice storms toppled trees and power lines in Michigan, northern New England and upstate New York.
In hard-hit Michigan, where utility workers raced to restore power in frigid temperatures, the power could be out until Thursday.
In Montana and North Dakota, the mercury dropped to 25 below zero.
At least 11 deaths in the U.S. were blamed on the storm, including five people killed in flooding in Kentucky and a woman who died after a tornado with winds of 130 mph struck in Arkansas. Another woman died in Arkansas when she lost control of her vehicle on an icy patch of an interstate. A Vermont man died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a generator that was running after the storm knocked out power at his house
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