Storm closes Texas schools, businesses

Thursday, January 18, 2007

SAN ANTONIO -- An icy storm blamed for at least 59 deaths in nine states spread snow and freezing rain across Texas all the way to the Mexican border Wednesday, closing the Alamo, glazing freeways and immobilizing communities unaccustomed to such cold. Accumulations were light by many regions' standards -- the Dallas area topped out at 3 inches of snow -- but hundreds of airline flights were canceled, tens of thousands of electricity customers lost power and a 300-mile stretch of Interstate 10, a major east-west highway that cuts through the state, was closed overnight.

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