EASTERN REGIONS Storms cleanup continues

At least 55 deaths have been attributed to the weather.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
After this week's Arctic storms that coated highways with ice and disabled power lines, residents of the Southeast were awaiting the big thaw so life can return to normal.
In North Carolina, schools were to remain closed for a fourth straight day today and icy conditions were projected to continue as cold air keeps streets frozen over.
"Those roads just aren't looking good yet," said Kathy Hiatt, a transportation supervisor for Wake County schools. "Buses are horrible when it comes to driving on ice."
Thousands of customers still had no electricity in the Southeast because of ice that broke tree limbs and power lines Tuesday.
Deaths
At least 55 deaths have been blamed on snow, ice and cold this week from Kansas to the East Coast.
A mix of freezing rain and snow continued to fall throughout the Great Lakes and Northeast early today.
In New York on Wednesday, the United Nations was shut down and more than a million children got the day off from school as the city cleaned up after the snowfall.
Slippery roads have closed schools, businesses and some government offices from the Plains to the East Coast.
"I hate it. I think one storm a year is plenty for me," said Eunice Flynn, who braved the weather on Long Island to get a few things at a shopping center.
The storm did not live up to expectations in most of the Northeast. Albany, N.Y., got only 3.4 inches instead of the forecast 13 inches, the National Weather Service said. Rhode Island got only half the 10 inches predicted. But New York's Central Park got 10.5 and, 30 miles east of the city on Long Island, Dix Hills had 14.6.
Airlines canceled more than 400 flights Wednesday at Newark's airport, along with more than 300 at La Guardia and about 50 at Kennedy.