Some 1,800 flights were canceled this Saturday in the United States, due to the winter storm that hits the country, while millions of people try to reunite with their families to spend the festive season.
This figure is added to the nearly six thousand cancellations that occurred on Friday, according to the FlightAware website, causing despair among users of the different airports in the country.
Additionally, about 1.2 million people are still without power at home, mostly in North Carolina, Tennessee and Maine, according to the Power Outage Tracker.
The US national weather service, the National Weather Service (NWS), which has forecast the coldest holiday season in decades, said today that heavy snowfall and strong winds are expected in the Midwest and Northeast, as well as low temperatures in the center and northeast. east of the country.
According to a report published at 15:00 (Lisbon time), 3.6 million people remain on alert for winter storms.
The agency explained, in a statement, that traveling throughout Saturday in some areas of the country will be “extremely dangerous and even impossible” and warned that “icy winds represent a mortal danger for travelers who are trapped.”
At least eleven people have already died from the freezing storm, which shows no sign of ending.
The eleven deaths were registered today in four states and occurred due to the dangerous and potentially deadly conditions caused by the very low temperatures that have affected the country for several days.
According to information provided by Kansas state authorities, three people have been killed in past weather-related car accidents, CNN reported.
Source: TSF
