2023-08-08 03:01:00
A Level 4 warning was issued for a storm in Washington DC on Monday for the first time in over a decade.
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Severe storms have affected public life in the eastern United States. Thousands of flights have been canceled or postponed. At least two people have died.
Severe storms have affected public life in the eastern United States. As of Monday followingnoon (local time), around 1,500 flights have been canceled and more than 7,000 have been postponed, according to flight data website FlightAware. More than a quarter of the cancellations affected the City of Atlanta, Georgia International Airport.
The federal aviation authority FAA announced that it was diverting machines to the east coast because of the storms. There is also a risk that air traffic in the greater New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte and Atlanta areas will have to be suspended.
As of early Monday evening, more than 1.1 million customers in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia were without power, according to website poweroutage.us.
A 28-year-old man was struck by lightning in a parking lot in Alabama and died, the New York Times reported. A 15-year-old boy was killed by a tree in South Carolina.
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