Many local residents spent a quiet Sunday at home, as a number of local churches cancelled services yesterday.

From Friday night until mid-day yesterday, three-quarters-of-an-inch of ice coated trees and power lines. But the wintry precipitation effects were limited locally.

The rain began Friday evening and froze that night. Late Saturday afternoon a fine mist of snow fell in some portions of the county. The icy conditions left the county under a winter storm advisory until yesterday morning.

In addition to cancelled church services, Whitmire Community School, Newberry College and Newberry Academy cancelled sporting events over the weekend.

The winter weather also shut down the county library on Saturday.

The S.C. Department of Transportation began working Friday in many areas of the state to keep major highways clear of ice and snow.

By mid-morning yesterday, Newberry County had a skeleton crew looking for trouble spots and addressing any calls on the roadways.

Sheriff Lee Foster says there were no major wrecks in the county. However, the wet and icy conditions did result in a number of fender benders. The state Highway Patrol responded to 11 wrecks in Newberry over the weekend.

The local fire departments had several calls for limbs on power lines. City firefighters helped after a kerosene heater caught fire, but no damage was done.

Saturday morning, Newberry Electric Cooperative reports it had around 1,000 homes go through short power outages, with scattered outages yesterday.

Other than a couple of isolated and short interruptions of power due to limbs falling on lines, power remained on in the City of Newberry throughout the ice event.

In Prosperity, a few limbs on lines cause power outages Saturday afternoon at Williamswood, on parts of Brown Street and at the Piggly Wiggly, but Prosperity Town Administrator Karen Livingston reports no major problems.

Throughout the state, some 10,000 power outages were reported.

Students in many upstate counties such as Greenville and Spartanburg were either home or on a delayed start this morning.

One death in Spartanburg County is being attributed to the winter weather. The 49-year-old man reportedly died after slipping while walking on an icy road. His body was later run over.