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holiday travelers and last-minute shoppers faced major challenges as a dangerous storm bears down on the eastern third of the nation. record high temperatures and flooding hit areas around columbus, ohio. several seniors had to be rescued at a retirement home. temperatures will plunge in the 30s in ohio by tonight. and in oklahoma city, sheets of ice tumbled off a roof, directly falling onto shoppers at an outdoor mall. thousands in oklahoma are without power of after ice and freezing rain coated electric lines causing them to snap. in canada, crews struggling to restore service to hundreds of thousands of customers without power. toronto s embattled mayor rob ford called the storm one of the worst in the city s history. reporter: the storm swept across southern ontario with an icy fury. firefighters in downtown toronto were left to deal with an ice-covered tree that fell on the hydro wires and caught on fire. while elsewhere, brilliant