The extreme cold that has hit the United States should begin to ease on the East Coast and Midwest in the coming days after what is already being called the worst winter storm of the century caused the deaths of at least , 49 people and the transportation system caused a collapse over the Christmas weekend. “Temperatures are expected to moderate in the Midwest and East in the coming days,” the National Weather Service said in its Tuesday report, but warned that “locally hazardous travel conditions” would persist.
“It’s too early to say it’s over,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a news conference in Buffalo. “It’s clearly the blizzard of the century,” said the official from her hometown, the storm’s epicenter.
Authorities described difficult conditions, especially in Buffalo, with power outages lasting for hours, deaths in vehicles and under snowpacks, and emergency services searching “vehicle by vehicle” for survivors.
With snowfalls, hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures, the storm has canceled more than 15,000 flights in the United States in recent days, nearly 4,000 of them on Monday, according to the website.
Flight aware. The Buffalo airport was still closed yesterday.
Over the weekend, freezing temperatures were recorded in 48 of the nation’s 50 states, including Texas, with power outages in nearly 1.7 million homes nationwide. Road ice has also resulted in the cutting of some of the country’s busiest routes, including Interstate 70, which crosses much of the US from east to west.
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Source: DN
