Sat 24 December 2022:
A powerful winter storm knocked out power to nearly two million homes and businesses, across the United States on Saturday, with millions of people concerned about, how further outages will affect holiday and travel plans.
According to the National Weather Service, More than 200 million people were under weather warnings, as wind chills sent temperatures down, as low as minus 48 Celsius.
Across the country, officials have attributed at least a dozen deaths to exposure, car crashes on icy and snow covered roads and effects of the storm, including two people who died in their homes outside Buffalo, New York, when emergency crews couldn’t reach them, amid historic blizzard conditions.
According to the flight tracking website Flight Aware, the storm that arrived earlier in the week, downed power lines, littered highways with piles of cars in deadly accidents – and led to more than 1,000 flights already cancelled so far on Saturday.
Heavy snow and howling winds have taken hold of much of the country, including normally temperate southern states.
Highways in the Midwest faced lengthy delays due to snowy weather or crashes and authorities in parts of Indiana, Michigan, New York and Ohio urged motorists to avoid nonessential travel.
US President Joe Biden has urged Americans to exercise caution this holiday weekend as freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall are hitting large portions of the country.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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