Neighbors John Piddock, left, and Jon Meredith look at a tree that fell in front of Piddock's house after a winter storm in Kinderhook, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. A wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses in New England, Pennsylvania and upstate New York Friday.
Pedestrians walk along an ice-covered street in Kinderhook, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008.
Ice coats electric lines after a storm in Taghkanic, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008.
A chain link fence and the trees behind it are covered with a thick coat of ice in the aftermath of an ice storm along a highway in Boylston, Mass., Friday morning, Dec. 12, 2008.
Guillermo Bello of Worcester, Mass., drags a trash can under a tree heavily laden with ice in a yard he is cleaning in the aftermath of an ice storm on Grafton Street in Shrewsbury, Mass., Friday morning, Dec. 12, 2008.
Traffic is redirected in Derry, N.H. after a utility pole snapped due to an overnight ice storm Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The ice storm knocked out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses in New England and upstate New York.
Frank Armitage points as he surveys the damage to his property in North Andover, Mass., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, after an ice storm caused large trees and branches to break and fall. The governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire declared states of emergency due to the ice storm Friday, as schools were closed and travel disrupted across the region.
A man carrying a gasoline can walks past the First Congregational Church of Princeton on Mountain Street in Princeton, Mass., in the aftermath of an ice storm Friday morning, Dec. 12, 2008.
Ice surrounds the branches of a tree after a storm in East Derry, N.H., Friday Dec. 12, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of residents in northern New Englan were without power Friday as an ice storm dropped trees and power lines all over the region.