Storm dumps snow on South, knocks out power

RICHMOND, Va.?? A winter storm that dumped several inches of snow across parts of the South, causing power outages, slippery roads and numerous accidents, moved out to sea Monday.

Crews were working to restore power to tens of thousands of households that lost electricity as a result of the storm.

The storm brought as much as 9 inches of snow to some areas on Sunday as it powered its way from Kentucky and Tennessee to West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

The storm system was expected to push off the coast during Monday morning, with the nation's capital getting only snow flurries, according to the National Weather Service.

NBC station LEX18.com said even roads not covered in snow were hazardous as many drivers encountered ice in Lexington, Ky. Officials urged drivers to exercise caution.

In North Carolina, four major accidents were reported in the Charlotte area early Monday as drivers truggled with slippery road surfaces, NBC station WCNC reported.

The storm hit toward the end of what has been an otherwise mild winter in the region.

In northern Tennessee, about 20 vehicles were involved in crashes along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 75 near the Kentucky border on Sunday afternoon.

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Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Stacy Heatherly said the crashes were reported shortly before 2 p.m. in near "white-out" conditions caused by heavy snowfall and fog. Police said a youth was seriously injured. All lanes of Interstate 75 had reopened by early evening.

Dozens of wrecks were also reported in North Carolina as snow, sleet and rain fell with little accumulation, according to The Winston-Salem Journal.

In Virginia, the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 were shut down following a two-vehicle crash that critically injured one man, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The accident was reported at about 6:20 p.m. on I-95 near the interchange with Interstate 295 in Prince George County. The male driver of one vehicle suffered life-threatening injuries, and an adult male passenger in the same vehicle also was hospitalized.

WCNC: Icy conditions, accidents reported across Charlotte area

Snow began sticking in the Richmond area after dark, and Virginia State Police had responded to about 700 crashes as of 10 p.m.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that only an inch or two of snow had fallen north of Interstate 85 in North Carolina, though more was expected close to the Virginia line.

The weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for the Raleigh-Durham area until 9 a.m. Monday. Officials were advising motorists to use caution when driving in the morning, as some return to work and others travel on Presidents Day.

LEX18.com: Drivers dealing with snow and ice

Wet snow also downed power lines. Appalachian Power was reporting that 52,000 customers were without power Sunday night in central and southern Virginia, as well as in West Virginia. Dominion Energy was reporting another 16,000 outages, mostly in the Richmond, Va., area and Shenandoah Valley. Kentucky Power said 23,000 households were without power Sunday night.

Nick Fillo, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Blacksburg, Va., office, said 5 to 8 inches of snow fell in the Blue Ridge Mountains, while about 3 to 6 inches fell on that state's Piedmont region.

"This was our first real winter storm," Fillo said.

The weather service said late Sunday that the snowfall was "diminishing in both intensity and coverage" and would end Monday morning.

Fillo said a low-pressure system would be coming out of the Rockies this week, bringing snow to the Great Lakes area but not significantly affecting the South.

The Associated Press, NBC News and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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A wine geek's ultimate road trip

A wine trip through Germany includes stops at historic wineries, such as Maximin Gr?nhaus near the town of Trier.

By Ray Isle, Food & Wine

I blame it on the fact that I grew up in Texas. By which I mean, at some point it occurred to me that driving from Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape, one of France?s greatest wine regions, to Piedmont, one of Italy?s greatest wine regions, would be only a slightly longer trip than driving from Houston to Dallas. (Not to mention that at the end I?d be in Piedmont, a more appealing place than Dallas.) After that, the mental dominoes fell into place: What if I flew to Europe and hit the road, visiting five iconic wineries, in five great wine regions, in five different countries, in five days: the Priorat in Spain, Ch?teauneuf, Piedmont, Germany?s Mosel and finally Austria?s Wachau. I?d visit five legendary wineries, and I?d also have the pleasure of founding an entirely new pursuit ? extreme wine tourism ? in the process.

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Mile 0: Spain

My starting point was Alvaro Palacios?eponymous winery in Spain?s Priorat. The Priorat, about an hour-and-a-half southwest of Barcelona, is a steep, severe place that produces some of Spain?s most sought-after red wines. People have grown grapes here for hundreds of years, but the region only recently came to prominence.

Palacios was one of the small group of winemakers that recognized the Priorat?s potential back in the 1980s, and he is now its most famous producer. His top wine, one of Spain?s greatest reds, is called L?Ermita. The grapes come from a single, old, steep vineyard in the shadow of a 16th-century hermitage (it?s still in use; apparently, there?s even a waiting list to be the resident hermit). L?Ermita is a stunning expression of Grenache, a grape that reaches a pinnacle in the Priorat. ?It?s one of the few grapes that can transform heat and aridity into something vibrant and refreshing,? Palacios said.

As I walked that morning in L?Ermita?s vineyard, there was certainly no lack of heat and aridity. With each step, I crunched through gravelly schist, kicking up red and brown dust; the sun was fierce. Palacios farms L?Ermita with mules, as the slope is too steep for tractors. As I hiked back up the slope, sweating, I felt fortunate not to have their job.

Palacios? winery is a spare, modernist structure, its big glass windows looking past the town of Gratallops to hills scored by the terraces of old vineyards. We tasted a number of his wines, ending with the 2009 and 2010 L?Ermitas, which cost roughly $800 a bottle. The ?09, from a warm year, was a study in power, with immense tannins under its dark fruit; the ?10 was even better ? extravagantly aromatic, perfectly balanced. They were both wines to sit with and ponder; wines for long, lingering, unhurried reflection. Instead, I checked my watch. ?Uh-oh,? I said. ?I?m sorry, Alvaro. I?ve got to get out of here!?

Mile 359: France

The drive from the Priorat to Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape takes you from dusty and scruffy (Gratallops) to drab and industrial (the northern outskirts of Barcelona) to sunlit and idyllic (France?s Mediterranean coast). Four hours in, I was sailing along the E15 past N?mes, under a glorious Proven?al sun. To my right was the pastel-blue Mediterranean; to my left, maniacal French drivers, rocketing past me with fine Gallic disregard, even though I was doing 90 miles per hour.

Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape shares three important things with the Priorat: the sun, the Mediterranean and Grenache. The Priorat is a hardscrabble, impoverished region, despite the success of its wines; in contrast, the southern Rh?ne Valley, home to Ch?teauneuf, feels like an extension of Provence, all sparkling light, picture-postcard villages and gentle hills. The place is charming, not harsh. If a local farmer from the Priorat were to wake up here, he?d think he?d gone to heaven. At least until he realized everyone was speaking French.

I spent the night at a bed-and-breakfast; the next morning, I drove to Ch?teau de Beaucastel, one of the greatest producers of Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape. Marc Perrin, a lanky 41-year-old whose family owns Beaucastel, looked surprisingly relaxed ? surprising since it was the middle of harvest and his wife had had a baby three weeks before. ?I?m not getting much sleep,? he admitted.

Beaucastel, unlike Palacios, is open to visitors by appointment, and the Perrins also own L?Oustalet, a tree-shaded restaurant with a great wine list in the nearby town of Gigondas. I had a superb alfresco lunch there with Perrin, but even so, the transcendent moment of this visit for me was back at the winery, tasting five vintages of Beaucastel?s great Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape. We tasted the 2009, 2008, 2001, 2000 and 1990. All were remarkable, but the 1990 soared above the rest. It had a transparent, dark ruby hue, with a tremendously complex flavor that kept sounding different notes: truffle, sandalwood, black cherry, cured meat, a little bit of black olive.

?There have been vines growing here since Roman times,? Perrin told me, ?but my family purchased the estate in 1909. We?ve been organic since 1950, and working biodynamically since 1974, but we never claim it on the bottle. It?s like something my uncle used to say: ?Some people go to church just to be seen at church, and others go simply because they believe.??

Mile 676: Italy

Heading north out of Ch?teauneuf-du-Pape, I skipped the rest of the Rh?ne ? St-Joseph! Hermitage! C?te R?tie! Oh well! ? then stopped for croissants and coffee at a bar overlooking the Is?re River in Grenoble. From there, the road curved up into the Alps, then down into Italy and to Piedmont.

I?ve always harbored a fantasy of moving to Piedmont, so it was extremely convenient to find that the 17th-century castle at the top of the hill in Castiglione Falletto, next door to the Vietti winery, was currently for sale, according to Vietti?s Luca Currado. And only $2,500,000 for an entire castle! ?But you have to maintain it,? Currado added. This was a good point; for instance, one might have to repair scratches to the exterior walls caused by people (like me) who drive by without paying attention to how far their side mirrors stick out.

Currado?s family has grown Nebbiolograpes in Piedmont since the 1600s; today, they own vineyards in all nine villages of the Barolo region. They also produce some of the region?s most acclaimed wines, like the 2007 Vietti Barolo Rocche that I tasted with Currado over dinner in Alba that night, a polished, luscious red with tea leaf and dark cherry notes. Currado mentioned that when Alba was a Roman town, the emperor talked about ?the fog grape? (nebbiais Italian for fog; hence, Nebbiolo). ?In Tuscany, they have ?under the Tuscan sun,?? he said with a shrug. ?In Piedmont, we have ?under Piedmontese fog.??

?I?m still blown away by that castle being for sale,? I said.

?You know, in old times, the owner of a castle had the right to spend the first night with the bride of anyone who got married in the village,? Currado said thoughtfully. ?I don?t think that?s the case anymore, though.?

Mile 1,191: Germany

Switzerland's mountains are scenic, its water is pure, and I have fond memories of falling asleep one time in a Swiss meadow and waking up surrounded by cows (different story). But when you?re trying to drive swiftly from Italy to Germany, Switzerland is just a big, mountain-filled problem.

Nevertheless, nine hours after leaving Piedmont, I arrived at the gates of Maximin Gr?nhaus. One of Germany?s greatest estates, it?s in the Ruwer valley region (Germany?s Mosel wine region is made up of a trio of river valleys ? the Mosel, the Saar and the Ruwer). Dr. Carl von Schubert?s family has owned Gr?nhaus for five generations; originally it belonged to the Abbey of Saint Maximin, and there are written records of the property that date back more than a thousand years.

The Ruwer is known for delicate, precise Rieslings, which is especially true in the 2010 vintage. The 2010 Maximin Gr?nhaus Abtsberg Kabinett I tasted that evening (along with 15 other wines) was a sublime German Riesling?? fragrant and polished, its sweetness and acidity in perfect balance. It was unexpectedly good with the wild boar stew that von Schubert served to me and the 25 wine salespeople from New Jersey who happened to arrive via minibus exactly when I did. (I suppose, from their point of view, I was the interloper.)

?I used to shoot about three boar per year in the vineyards,? von Schubert said as we ate. ?Now it?s about 60. Perhaps it has to do with global warming.?

?They destroy the vines?? I asked.

?They love the sweetest grapes. But if they penetrate the vineyard, they have to risk ending their lives as salami.?

Mile 1,707: Austria

This was my fifth and final day. When I pulled up at Nikolaihof, in Austria?s Wachau region, I?d driven more than 1,700 miles and spent nearly 35 hours behind the wheel.

Nikolaihof is ancient. The oldest winery in Austria, it was a Celtic holy place, then a Roman fortress until 511 AD. Then the Romans left and, as Nikolaus Saahs, whose family now owns it, told me, ?after that, the history is unknown until 777 AD, when a monastery was founded here.?

Hearing the story of Nikolaihof brought something home to me. Every single region I?d hit on my five-day journey shared one specific thing, which was that Romans had been the first to cultivate wine grapes there. (After 1,700 miles of driving, it also struck me as amazing that the Romans held together their empire with no mode of travel other than foot and horse.) All different countries, all different cultures, but a single unifying thread: wine. It was heartening, somehow.

Over a seemingly endless succession of Austrian dishesat the winery?s restaurant that night ? Saahs?s mother, Christine, is a well-known Austrian chef ? I tasted the Nikolaihof wines. If I had to pick a favorite, it would most likely be the family?s Vinothek Gr?ner Veltliner, which is only bottled after it has aged for a decade or more in huge wooden casks. I love the fresh white-peppery spice of Gr?ner, Austria?s signature grape, and it can last (and improve) for far longer than people realize. The 1993 Vinothek, the current vintage, had intense, lasting flavors, yet was amazingly alive, ending on an ethereal honeysuckle note.

Earlier that day, Saahs had taken me down to the oldest part of Nikolaihof?s cellars, built more than 1,800 years ago. The room had been a wine cellar back then, and it was a wine cellar now. While we were standing there, Saahs said, ?I?m just a small part of the history of this house, and I know it. Two thousand years of history, and I?m living here 70 years? That?s nothing.? True, 70 years was nothing. But here we were, in this small stone room, talking about making wine. And 1,800 years ago, two other people had no doubt been standing right here, too, in exactly the same place, talking about making wine. In between, what had there been? Wars, famines, revolutions, discoveries, nations rising and falling, people living their lives, and through all of it, no matter what, in every single place I?d visited, someone making wine.

Iconic bottles

Germany
2010 Maximin Gr?nhaus Abtsberg Riesling Kabinett ($37). Dr. Carl von Schubert makes several terrific wines from Abtsberg, his top vineyard. This slatey bottling is one of the easiest to find.

Austria
2010 Nikolaihof Gr?ner Veltliner Hefeabzug ($30). A peppery white, it?s a great introduction to Nikolaihof?s Gr?ners. Also look for the powerful, spicy 1993 Vinothek bottling ($170).

France
2008 Ch?teau de Beaucastel Ch?teuneuf-du-Pape ($98). Great producers make superb wine even in tough years. This violet-scented, complex red is a perfect example.

Italy
2007 Vietti Barolo Castiglione ($48). The ?07 vintage in Barolo is spectacular, something this cuv?e shows with its depth and elegance. It?s made with grapes from several grand cruBarolo vineyards.

Spain
2009 Alvaro Palacios Finca Dof? ($70). Palacios?s legendary L?Ermita runs $800 a bottle. Dof? costs a fraction of that, yet it?s still world class ? powerful yet subtle, with intense fruit and a mineral edge.

How to visit

With the exception of Alvaro Palacios in Spain, each winery on Ray?s tour is open to visitors by appointment (with a fair amount of advance notice).

Chateau de Beaucastel, France
Visits to and tastings at Beaucastel, in Courth?zon, can be arranged through its website (beau castel.com). To book a table at L?Oustalet, the Perrin family?s restaurant in the town of Gigondas, go to restaurant oustalet.com.

Vietti, Italy
To arrange guided visits to Vietti?s winery and cellars, in the small town of Castiglione Falletto, go to vietti.com.

Maximin Gr?nhaus, Germany
Located near the town of Trier, along the Ruwer river, Gr?nhaus offers tours and tastings Monday through Saturday (vonschubert.com).

Nikolaihof Wachau, Austria
At Nikolaihof, in Mautern, visitors can taste wine and try traditional Austrian cuisine at the winery?s tavern (nikolaihof.at).

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Can Family Of Seamen Submit A Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Can Group Of Seamen Submit A Wrongful Dying Suit

Family people of seamen who lost their lives within the type of duty might have legal options under U . s . States maritime laws and regulations. The problem will choose which laws and regulations you?re qualified to file for claims under.

In case your member of the family was wiped out at ocean at work, a specialist maritime attorney can guide you to determine your legal privileges and help you in identifying whether or not to file claims.

What?s The Dying Around The Ocean Act

The Dying around the Ocean Act, also called DOHSA, is really a maritime law supplying for that reparation of households of seamen wiped out in global waters due to neglect with respect to a colliege or even the vessel he was on. When the dying happened a lot more than 3 miles in the coast from the U.S. or its areas, families might be titled to file for issues under these laws and regulations.

Compensation are only able to get towards the employee?s spouse, offspring or dependent relatives and it is restricted to financial and pecuniary damages. Family people can also be capable of receive emotional damages under some conditions.

Partners may also be capable of claim lack of household services, meaning losing assistance supplied by the seaman in raising children and household functions. DOHSA doesn?t permit lack of support, consortium and companionship damages and preempts condition or any other maritime rules which do.

Johnson Act Claims

Because the title would indicate, the DOHSA is particularly for dying situations of the seaman. If the one you love was hurt like a seaman, he is going following a situation underneath the Johnson act law, which provides hiding for specific types of maritime employees who?ve been hurt within the type of their job by reason of disregard. You will see instances, nevertheless, where making it through immediate family people could file a Johnson Act wrongful dying claim.

In case your member of the family was wiped out in U.S. seas inside a marine league of shoreline or during port, the making it through family people might be capable of file a suit under this legislation instead of the DOHSA. In cases like this, the household people could be allowed to assert further compensation. If negligence or reviews of unseaworthiness from the vessel owner can be established, reparation for lack of consortium and punitive damages may be viable.

Other Relevant Wrongful Dying Laws and regulations

The Johnson Act sets forth an answer for that groups of seamen deceased because of employer disregard. When the dying evolved as the result of negligence simply or perhaps in whole by a person apart from the business, the seaman?s family could have the ability to file suit under general maritime law or condition wrongful dying laws.

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Digital Film Switch Could Signal End Of Historic Movie Theaters

BUFFALO, N.Y. ? The license plate on movie projectionist Arnie Herdendorf's Buick is 35MM MAN, a nod to his work in the booth at the 1925 Palace Theatre, with its velvet-draped stage and chandeliered mezzanine.

When he drove recently to a multiplex to watch as its film projectors were swapped out for new digital ones, the sight of old 35 mm workhorses "stacked up like wounded soldiers" had him wondering how long his title ? or job ? would be around.

The questions are even bigger for historic movie houses themselves.

With the future of motion pictures headed quickly toward an all-digital format played only on pricey new equipment, will the theaters be around? Or will they be done in by the digital revolution that will soon render inadequate the projectors that have flickered and ticked with a little-changed technology for more than 120 years?

"Our guess is by the end of 2013 there won't be any film distributed anymore," said John Fithian, president and chief executive of the National Association of Theater Owners.

The Hollywood studios' industry-wide conversion from 35 mm film to digital satisfies modern-day demands for crisp clarity, cost savings and special effects like 3-D. And for big-budget theaters where new releases occupy multiple screens, installing digital projectors is a no-brainer. Already, about 60 percent have converted in the United States, at a price of $70,000 to $80,000 a screen, Fithian said.

But for the community-owned Palace and other small and historic movie houses, the merging of nostalgia with high-tech is a dauntingly expensive proposition. Yet one, most agree, that is critical if they are to keep attracting audiences to their light bulb-studded marquees. The cost is more than double the price of a top-of-the-line film projector.

"The Riviera Theatre is listed on the historic register, but we are not a museum," Executive Director Frank Cannata said from the 1927 theater north of Buffalo, "so it's important that we stay current ... and staying current isn't always affordable, as we're all finding out."

An estimated 500 to 750 historic theaters currently show movies, according to the Theatre Historical Society of America, though it adds no one has formally researched the number and the estimate is conservative.

"This is another major threat to these theaters which were largely rescued and restored by grass-roots local efforts," said Karen Colizzi Noonan, president of the THS, which records and preserves theaters' architectural and cultural history. "It is so sad that after all that hard work and dedication these groups now face another huge challenge just to survive."

And survival means doing whatever they can to raise the cash to convert.

Supporters of the privately owned Davis Theatre in Higginsville, Mo., are vying for a $50,000 prize in a Reader's Digest contest that would help pay for digital equipment for the 500-seat main auditorium. They were in second place at the start of February, with a month of voting to go.

"It's a long haul but it's encouraging to see a town come together," said Fran Schwarzer, who, with her husband, George, was nearing retirement age and sunk their savings into buying the 1934 theater to keep it from closing in 1998.

The couple added three screens in 2005 so they could show more first-run movies, always viewing the venture as more community service than money-maker in the small town east of Kansas City.

"If we had known then what we know now" about the swift onset of digital, "we would never have gone into debt more to put in three more auditoriums," Schwarzer said.

The Riviera will show movies with its two carbon arc lamphouses and projectors for as long as it can, Cannata said, while exploring funding for the digital replacements. If it can't, it will have to do away with the popular second-run movies offered at discount rates.

While live shows and other programming would keep the Riviera going, other theaters are trying to stave off closing with fundraisers, like the taco supper planned to raise money for the Onarga Theater in eastern Illinois. The 1937 theater that boasts being the first south of Chicago to show movies with sound has invested in its seating, concessions and sound systems in recent years, but can't afford the switch to digital projection.

North of Buffalo, the nonprofit, community-owned Palace is looking into loans and grants for a $75,000 digital set up, but it's also going to have to upgrade its electrical system to accommodate the new equipment, said Phil Czarnecki, vice president of the board. He can't help but think of all the restoration of the building ? a replica of the Paramount Theater in New York City that mixes Art Deco and Italian Renaissance style ? that could be accomplished with such an outlay.

The small theaters already are feeling pressure from the digital conversions taking place all around them. Instead of waiting three weeks for a modern multiplex to make a movie print available, it now often takes six or seven weeks because there are fewer 35 mm copies in circulation. That's more than enough time for the pool of potential ticket-buyers to lose interest or see the movie somewhere else.

It's not just the cost of digital projection that concerns Edward Summer, president of the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. He worries that once older movie houses make the switch, they'll do away with their 35 mm projectors, something he says would be "a hideous mistake."

Summer sees a potential tourism niche in historic theaters showing classic movies ? and he worries that existing films that won't be digitized will be forever lost to audiences if the equipment isn't there to show them.

"Every motion picture made between 1894 and right this minute is on 35 mm film and those films not only still exist, but those film prints are the only way to see them," Summer said.

"It's not either/or," Summer said of the two projection technologies, "it's both/and."

The Palace's Herdendorf doesn't own a computer and isn't sure if his 17 years of splicing and dicing reels of film and threading them through a platter projection system will translate to the new technology with its pocket-size hard drives. He knows what to do if film breaks, but not if a computer freezes.

The Riviera eventually plans to display one of its 35 mm carbon arc projectors in the lobby, Cannata said, "so people can take a look at how films were shown at one time."

The Davis Theatre's Schwarzer jokes that her place's four projectors will become boat anchors. What's important, she said, is that the theater's doors stay open.

"We have such wonderful memories of this theater as children," she said. "You kind of like to think that kids that come now will have some of those memories, too."

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