UPDATE | Thousands lose power as Winter Storm Fern blankets Texarkana in ice

A snow plow pushes ice and snow in the 700 block of Hazel Street as it turns south onto Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Saturday in Texarkana, Ark. The wintry precipitation began Friday evening as Winter Storm Fern moved over the region. As of 3 p.m. Saturday, SWEPCO reported 4,470 customers on both sides of the state line in Texarkana were without power, including Central Mall and large area along Richmond Road. The utility reported the largest percentage of outages in De Queen, Ark., where 1,576 customers (roughly 26% of the total customers) were without power. Another round of precipitation is expected overnight Saturday, which could…