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Major winter storm wallops US, leaving 1.5 million without power

Nearly a million-and-a-half US power customers are in the dark as a severe winter storm walloped the country, causing highway closures and thousands of flight cancellations days before Christmas.

Hazari Mohamed by Hazari Mohamed
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CHICAGO: Nearly a million-and-a-half US power customers are in the dark as a severe winter storm walloped the country, causing highway closures and thousands of flight cancellations days before Christmas.

Heavy snow, howling winds and air so frigid it instantly turned boiling water into ice took hold of much of the nation, including normally temperate southern states.

Some 240 million Americans – 70 per cent of the population – were under weather warnings, as wind chills brought temperatures down as low as -48 degrees Celsius, according to the National Weather Service.

In Hamburg, New York, 39-year-old Jennifer Orlando hunkered down with her husband.

“We’re under a driving ban,” she told AFP, adding: “I can’t see across the street. We’re not going anywhere.”

Her power was out for four hours after a RV (recreational vehicle) slid into a powerline on the highway, she said.

The biting cold is an immediate concern for some 1.5 million electricity customers, mainly in the US south and east, who were without power, according to tracker poweroutage.us.

Transportation departments in North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa and elsewhere reported near-zero visibility whiteouts, ice-covered roads and blizzard conditions, and strongly urged residents to stay home.

At least two traffic fatalities were reported in Oklahoma Thursday, Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, confirmed three in his state.

“This is an epic, statewide hazard,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a press briefing.

“The roads are going to be like an ice skating rink and your tires cannot handle this.”

AIR TRAVEL CHAOS

In El Paso, Texas, desperate migrants who had crossed from Mexico huddled for warmth in churches, schools and a civic center, Rosa Falcon, a school teacher and volunteer told AFP.

But some still chose to stay outside in -9 degrees Celsius temperatures because they feared attention from immigration authorities, she added.

In Chicago, Burke Patten of Night Ministry, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the homeless, said: “We’ve been handing out cold weather gear, including coats, hats, gloves, thermal underwear, blankets and sleeping bags, along with hand and foot warmers.”

Across the border in Canada, last-minute holiday shoppers in downtown Toronto remained upbeat.

Jennifer Campbell, of Caledon, Ontario, told AFP: “I think every few years we get some big storms and we just adjust. We are Canadians, that’s the way we do it.”

On the travel front, more than 4,500 US flights were already canceled Friday and another 5,900 delayed, according to tracking website Flight Aware, many at international hubs New York, Seattle and Chicago’s O’Hare.

Weather extremes were seen across North America.

Meteorologist Kelsey McEwen in Toronto tweeted that waves of up to 8m have been reported in Lake Erie, while in Ohio’s Fairport Harbor, winds gusted to 120kmh, the NWS tweeted.

AccuWeather forecasters have said the storm could rapidly strengthen into what is known as a “bomb cyclone” – when the barometric pressure drops and a cold air mass collides with warm air.

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Rich Maliawco, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Glasgow, Montana, where wind chill plunged to a bone-crushing -51 degrees Celsius overnight, warned the weather was extremely dangerous.

“When it’s this cold, anybody can run into trouble,” he told AFP.

“With these kinds of wind chills, if you’re not wearing those warm layers … unprotected skin can get frostbite in less than five minutes.”

Conditions were cold enough for people to post videos of themselves carrying out the “boiling water challenge,” where boiling water is thrown into the air and instantly freezes.

“We created our own cloud @ -17° F (-27° C) at the #Missoula International Airport,” tweeted NWS Missoula in Montana.

Source: AFP

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