Snow brought parts of western Oregon and southwest Washington to a practical standstill Friday, shuttering businesses and snarling traffic, the Associated Press reported.
The second storm was expected to dump a foot or more of snow in mountainous parts of southern Oregon and 2 to 8 inches in western Oregon valleys that got hammered Thursday, according to the National Weather Service, the AP reported.
Snow will then likely give way to freezing rain Friday night and Saturday in many areas, turning roadways into ice rinks and boosting the chance of downed power lines, forecasters said, according to the AP. A linesman works to restore electrical power Friday in Downingtown, Pa.
The first storm dropped upwards of a foot of snow on parts of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday and left at least one person dead in an Interstate 5 pileup in southwest Washington, according to the AP.
Meanwhile, electrical teams worked Friday to reconnect nearly 300,000 customers in Pennsylvania and Maryland as utilities companies warned that some will have to wait several more days, the AP reported.
The vast majority of the power outages Friday were in the Philadelphia suburbs, where several schools were closed for a third day, according to the AP. A spokesman for PECO Energy, the largest electric and natural gas utility in the state, said roughly 250,000 customers were without power late Friday afternoon.
PECO told NBC Philadelphia that the storm was the second worst in company history - as well as the worst winter storm outage ever.
"This is the second-largest storm in terms of customer interruptions that we've had right behind Sandy," PECO spokesman Greg Smore told NBC. "We had a total of 715,000 customers without power."
