A large number of states of USA registered this friday temperatures below zero as a big freezing stormknown as cyclonic pumpleft millions of homes without electricity Already thousands of travelers stranded at the gates of the Christmas holidays.
The phenomenoncaused by an arctic air front, will be responsible for the country experiencing its coldest Christmas since the 1980s.
Nail 10 people, so far, have died on the roads since the storm began in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky y Ohio.
In other places, like Chicago (Illinois) o Nashville (Tennessee), roads were clogged for hours as temperatures dropped, rain turned to ice and the wind turned to blizzards.
In Denver (Colorado) Thursday was the second coldest day on record: the average temperature was 26 degrees below zero.
Transportation problems also affected trains and bus companies such as Greyhoundthe largest of them, which has already warned that many routes in the Northeast or Midwest may be canceled or altered.
More than 1.4 million homes or offices were without power today, according to records from the PowerOutage.us website, while around 5,300 flights had been canceled as of Friday.
Strong winter storms will affect an estimated 200 million people, 60 percent of the country’s population, according to projections by the national weather service, the National Weather Service (NWS).
The President of the USA, Joe Bidenappeared publicly on Thursday to warn Americans to take the storm “extremely seriously” and to follow the recommendations of the authorities.
With information from EFE
