EFE.- The temporal history “Elliot” has plunged into USA to a freezing climate in the middle of the Christmas season, embittering the Good night to thousands of people due to the cancellation of flights, the collapse of roads and power outages in various parts of the country.
The storm, a cyclonic bomb caused by an arctic air front, has been causing sub-zero temperatures, heavy snowfall, strong winds and rain since Thursday from Canada until Texas.
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If the forecasts come true, several cities on the east coast and Florida could live the Christmas coldest since records have been kept.
At least 200 million people in USA60% of the population, have been under some weather alert, according to the national meteorological service, the National Weather Service (NWS).
the step of “Elliot” has left without Good night to thousands of people in the country who were trying to reunite with their families, since some 4,000 flights have been canceled this Saturday, according to data from the portal Flight Aware.
These are added to the nearly 6,000 cancellations that occurred on Thursday, causing chaos and despair in several airports from United States.
Even courier companies like Fedex o UPS have announced delays in gift delivery in the wake of the storm.
The storm has also hit the country’s electrical infrastructure, where 1.4 million people remain without power in their homes, mainly in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee and Maine, according to the tracker. Power Outage.
The Duke Energy company asked its customers in Ohio and Kentucky this Saturday to reduce the use of non-essential electrical appliances until tomorrow due to the high demand for electricity that it is experiencing due to low temperatures.
At least 15 people have died due to the storm, according to local media counts, four of them in a multi-car crash on a snow-covered Ohio highway.
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The weather service warned on Saturday that road travel in parts of the Midwest and Northeast is “extremely dangerous or even impossible,” and warned that “icy winds pose a deadly danger to stranded travelers.”
The president of United States, Joe Bidenappeared publicly on Thursday to warn Americans to take the storm “extremely seriously” and to follow the recommendations of the authorities.
At least 12 states in the country have declared a state of emergency due to the freezing cold, as Colorado, Georgia o NY.
“The low temperatures today have left dangerous conditions on the roads. Stay off the roads,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul asked on social media this Saturday.
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Hundreds of people have been trapped on the roads by the snow in the city of Buffaloborder with Canada. “It has been a very bad night for our community,” he told reporters. Marc PoloncarzErie County official.
On Friday, the congressmen of the Low camera of the United States rushed to vote on the budget for the fiscal year 2023 in fear of being trapped on Christmas Eve Washington.
The US capital experiences a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius below zero this Saturday. The city is expected to pass the Christmas colder since 1989.