2022-12-25 08:00:00
The snow storm that is ravaging the United States has paralyzed the country on Christmas weekend. There are already more than 240 million Americans who are in alertness (almost 70% of the country’s population), due to a winter storm that has brought strong winds and intense and icy snowfalls that have caused at least 17 deaths in eight states and have left without electricity supply to more than 1.7 million homes in the United States and Canada.
The most affected have been the travelers who were going to catch a flight scheduled for Friday, the day before Christmas Eve, when trips began to be canceled throughout the country due to the alert situation that was coming. From the Biden Government the population was asked not to travel to avoid accidents and endanger more people, especially on the road.
In the city of Chicago, who knows the cold, have closed nurseries and schools and have recommended teleworking while temperatures are -20ºC. In NY The consequences of storm Elliott have appeared in the form of floods that have caused road closures and power outages, especially in Queens, Long Island, New Jersey and the Bronx, while the western slope of the State has woken up with two meters of snow.
historical storm
The borrasca Elliott it has spread from the border between the United States and Canada and has reached the Gulf of Mexico, where frosts never seen before are taking place.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS)3.9 million people remained under a snow storm alert since yesterday, especially in the Midwest, Northeast, and Northwest of the country. Since Friday, more than 10,000 flights have been canceled and the ice that is arriving now can make the country face a very difficult situation now. from energy companiesare asking the population to save energy in the face of a situation that may take longer than expected.
Blue code
From the National Weather Service Code Blue has been activated, an alert that occurs very rarely, and now it is one of them given the low temperatures and the forecast of snow. Public buildings have been opened for the homeless. In El Paso (Texas) Shelters were set up so that migrants arriving from Mexico could take refuge from the temperatures, which reached -10º during midnight on Friday. So far there have been documented more than 20 deceased.
He body count by the massive storm, which stretched from the Great Lakes to the Mexican border, included one man in the Big Apple and three in northern Erie County, where a badly battered Buffalo was expected to be up to six feet tall. snow on Monday. “It is life-threatening what is happening as we speak in Buffalo,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday, noting that almost all the fire trucks in that city were stuck in the snow.
Not Ohio, four motorists died and many others were injured in a 50 vehicle accident during a snow storm near the town of Toledo. In Kentucky confirmed three more weather-related deaths: two from car accidents and a homeless person who died on the street.
An 82-year-old woman in Lansing, Michigan, died after she was found curled up in the snow Friday morning. In North Dakota and Nevada concern is also centered on flooding.
During Christmas day very low temperatures are expected, of up to 15 to 25 degrees below average in the eastern United States. Nearly 28,000 Buffalo-area homes remained without power as of 4 a.m. today according to the website poweroutage.us, which collects information about power outages. The population, even without electricity, is asked to stay at home in the face of this bomb cyclone that is ravaging the country.
frozen animals
Iguanas in Florida are freezing and falling to the ground. And in Texas and the Humane Society of Houston rescued 138 frozen bats from the Waugh Street bridge after they froze Thursday.
The same will happen with the Florida farmers, who are seeing how the frosts are affecting their citrus plantations and it is possible that strawberries will not recover and they have to write off all production. Same situation as pineapples, papayas or peppers.
The balance in other species will be seen in the coming days and when the thaw arrives. The forecast is for the cold and snow storm to continue for the next few days in the east of the country.
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