Impact
| State | Total | County | County total |
Direct deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 1 | Gwinnett | 1 | 0 |
| Maryland | 2 | Unknown | 2 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 4 | Cabarrus | 1 | 1 |
| Granville | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rockingham | 1 | 0 | ||
| Wilkes | 1 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 7 | 1 | ||
Trees and power lines, along with numerous other lightweight structures, came down in many areas from Georgia northward, and highways (including several Interstate Highways) were closed and impassable. The heaviest ice accretions were in southwestern North Carolina, where ice over 3/4 inch (20 mm) thick was reported and Charlottesville, Virginia with 1 inch (25,4 mm). At the higher elevations, and farther north across the Great Lakes region and into northern New England, the storm produced heavy snow with amounts varying between 7 inches to as high as 26 inches (57 cm).
In Canada, 41 centimetres of snow fell in Montreal in about 12 hours, with snowfall rates as high as 30 centimetres in 4 hours, and 11 centimetres in a one hour period during the morning rush hour on December 16. This is the second worst storm on record, after a storm on March 4, 1971 dumped 47 centimetres and the worst fall snowstorm to hit the area since records were kept. In Ottawa, between 20 and 35 centimetres fell in a short period of time causing several OC Transpo buses to become stuck on the city's transitway and several of their articulated buses to become jackknifed at a busy intersection in the suburb of Gatineau, Quebec.
In addition, at least seven deaths were blamed 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.
Read more about this topic: Ice Storm Of December 2005
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