Freak Storm Drops More Snow on South

A winter storm that surprised the Tennessee Valley with more than a foot of snow blustered into its second day today--pushing as far south as Alabama, while freezing rain turned some Southern and New England roads slick with ice.

In Alabama, a 50-year-old Northport man died today when his tractor-trailer rig slid off an icy overpass on Interstate 59 near Tuscaloosa. Another man was killed in a multi-car accident on a rain-slickened interchange in Lexington, Ky., and a car skidded into a delivery truck on the ice-slickened Capital Beltway in Marlow Heights, Md., killing one woman.

Since the new year began, storms from Texas to New England were blamed for at least 42 weather-related deaths and more than 400,000 scattered power outages.

About 135,000 central and southwest Michigan homes and offices were without power for a fifth day and some could remain so until Monday, officials said.

Up to 6 inches of snow fell across eastern Arkansas by midmorning today and 8 inches covered Cape Girardeau, Mo., which had snow drifts as deep as 2 feet. Light snow fell today from northeast Mississippi and northern Alabama to western Kentucky and Tennessee.

Travelers advisories for freezing rain and occasional snow extended over northern Delaware, much of Maryland and northwest Virginia. Advisories were also issued over southern New England for snow mixed with freezing rain through tonight.