on the weather, one of them directly related to weather conditions. One of the deaths was as a result of a tree that fell into a home and crashed into a man in Kannapolis, North Carolina, one as a result of a faulty generator in a house without power, and the other five as a result of traffic accidents. Power outage The ice storm left more than a million people without power in and near the Appalachians, including 630,000 customers in Georgia, 358,000 in South Carolina, 328,000 in North Carolina and 13,000 in Virginia. It took over a week to restore power. Several emergency shelters also were opened. Electricity was not restored in many places until 20 December 2005, by which time one death was blamed on the outage. See also North American Ice Storm of 1998 References External links WLOS-TV (Asheville) news log Event Summary from NWS Greenville-Spartanburg office A Georgia Ice Storm: December 14 - 15, 2005 from the NWS Peachtree, GA office 2005 meteorology 2005 2005 in economics History of the Northeastern United States Ice storm, 2005 United States 2005 disasters in Canada 2005 natural disasters in the United States Ice storms in Canada December 2005 events in Canada