2023-08-08 13:55:59
Westminster: A fallen utility pole lies on top of a car at an intersection of Route 140. Heavy rain accompanied by strong storms swept across Maryland overnight. Several trees and power poles were downed. A tornado warning was previously issued for the region.
(Baltimore Sun Staff/The Baltimore Sun/AP/dpa)
Severe storms have brought death and chaos to parts of the eastern and southeastern United States. At least two young people were killed when severe storms with hail and thunderstorms swept across the region, the authorities said on Monday. Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, and more than 1.1 million homes and businesses were without power.
Two young people die in the storm
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for the Washington DC metro area, classifying it as an area where conditions might be favorable for a possible tornado. In addition, such notices and actual warnings applied to ten states from Tennessee to New York. By Monday followingnoon (local time), the national weather service said it had issued a tornado watch for more than 29.5 million people. A flash flood warning was also issued for the state of Maryland following four inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
In Anderson, South Carolina, a 15-year-old man was killed by a tree following he got out of his car outside his grandparents’ home during a storm, the Anderson County Coroner’s Office said. The broadcaster WAAY-TV also reported that in the city of Florence, Alabama, a 28-year-old was struck by lightning and died.
Air traffic affected over a large area
As of Monday evening, more than 2,600 flights in the United States have been canceled and almost 7,900 have experienced delays. The majority of flight cancellations occurred at Atlanta, Georgia’s International Airport, which was still suffering from the disruption caused by a storm on Sunday. The federal aviation authority FAA announced that they are diverting machines with the destination east coast so that they avoid the storms. She had previously warned of the danger that air travel would have to be suspended in the New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte and Atlanta areas.
As of early Monday evening, more than 1.1 million customers were without power in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia – all states along the path of the storm system lay. According to media reports, power lines and trees crashed into streets and some houses in some places.
People shouldn’t leave their homes
Because of weather conditions, President Joe Biden departed 90 minutes late for a four-day trip to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The White House also canceled a planned cybersecurity and school event to be attended by First Lady Jill Biden, a trained educator, along with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. In the capital, federal employees were sent home earlier so that they would not sit in the car in the wind and hail.
Chris Strong, meteorologist at the National Weather Service, called on the affected population to find a stable shelter and not to be outside. “Be at home or at work,” he warned in a live broadcast on Facebook. “It looks like one of the most significant severe weather events in the mid-Atlantic[states]that we have had in quite some time.”
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