CUMBERLAND — Countless numbers of place people have been without the need of energy and travel was difficult in some parts Thursday as a a lot-predicted ice storm coated the region. The worst of the concerns ended up in Hampshire County, West Virginia, exactly where a lot more than half of Potomac Edison’s 16,400 prospects had no energy. First responders in the japanese element of the county have been working with numerous falling trees and downed energy traces all through the afternoon. County officials opened a warming shelter at Romney Fire Company because of to the range of outages, which topped 8,700 at 4 p.m. The precipitation started off to…