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Linemen have been working the past week on restoring electricity throughout the county due to the freezing temperatures and ice. Multiple trees fell on power lines and power lines fell due to the weight of the ice. Photo by Mitchell Pate
Record-breaking low temperatures, several varieties of freezing precipitation, and prolonged power outages slowed Freestone county to a crawl, causing school and business closings and endangering lives.
With the bad weather starting last Thursday, both Fairfield and Teague schools let out at noon. Sleet began to fall shortly afterwards as temperatures dropped below freezing. They have not come…