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Parts of the Pacific Northwest were under an ice storm warning through Wednesday morning, threatening to add to the damage brought by a powerful winter storm that hit the region over the weekend. Area of southwest Washington and western Oregon — including that state’s largest cities of Portland, Salem and Eugene — were expecting to see a quarter-inch to an inch (6 to 25 millimeters) of ice, while freezing rain was forecast in the Seattle area. Schools were closed in many places, bus service curtailed and warming shelters opened while officials warned of continued treache...

The Pacific Northwest was bracing for freezing rain and ice Tuesday even as tens of thousands of residents struggled with a dayslong power outage wrought by a weekend storm that was blamed for at least seven deaths.

The Pacific Northwest is hunkering down after predictions of ice and freezing rain that could aggravate a weekend toll of storm damage and deaths.

Freezing rain and a quarter inch of snow is ready to be dumped over areas of Oregon, including Portland.

Residents of the Pacific Northwest suffered more misery as an ice storm bore down Wednesday.