Nearly 300 Duke Energy crews head to Carolinas to restore power following winter storm
By FOX 13 News staff
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Duke Energy crews from Pinellas County will join hundreds of other linemen in the Carolinas Wednesday ahead of the winter storm.
Officials said there will be 275 utility crews deployed from Florida. A seaside town in North Carolina has already seen a tornado spawned by cold fronts along the edge of the weather system that has overwhelmed power grids and immobilized the Southern Plains on Tuesday carried heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South and left behind painfully low temperatures. Wind-chill warnings extended from Canada into Mexico.