By Saturday afternoon almost all of the power outages caused by the winter storm were restored in the Athens area.

Thousands of customers were in the dark Saturday after a winter storm dropped snow and ice on Friday that knocked down some power lined. Outages were being reported across Georgia.

Dozens of power outages impacted thousands of residents early Saturday in the Augusta area following a winter storm that passed over the CSRA on Friday.

Nearly 2,000 Alabama Power customers are currently experiencing power outages as a result of ongoing winter storms, according to the company’s website. Crews have been working throughout the morning to restore service and have been successful in bringing outage numbers down from the over 7,

As of Saturday afternoon, the vast majority of power outages from Winter Storm Cora in the Northeast Georgia area have been resolved.

After a freezing winter storm shut schools, cut power and cancelled or delayed flights, the South was slowly thawing Sunday as warmer weather melted snow and ice. Crews worked furiously and by Sunday morning power had been restored to parts of North Carolina and South Carolina where tens of thousands of customers lost electricity over the last few days,

The storm was moving out to sea off the East Coast on Saturday, leaving behind a forecast for snow showers in the Appalachian Mountains and New England. But temperatures were expected to plunge after sundown in the South,

Major airports including Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., continued to report disruptions Saturday as a winter storm continues across the South.

A winter storm that dropped heavy snow and glazed roads throughout the U.S. South was maintaining its icy grip on much of the region into the weekend.

The significant winter storm had passed in the South by Saturday morning, but travel issues and power outages were still ongoing.

A major US winter storm is causing chaos in the South, resulting in over 3,000 canceled flights and power outages.