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Hundreds of thousands at risk after this weekend’s disaster big snowstorm More than 700,000 homes across the United States are without power due to severe cold weather. Based on outage data.
Tens of thousands more people are stranded or unable to travel due to the following reasons: winter storm fern. More than 12,000 flights were canceled on Sunday and more than 5,000 on Monday, according to the data. Flight awareness.
The death toll from the storm has reached at least 25. Nearly 180 million people have participated According to the National Weather Service, areas from the southern Rockies to New England have experienced widespread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain in recent days.
Live data from Find EnergyData tracking outages show that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee were hardest hit by the outages, while more than 10,000 customers were also affected in Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia.
Eddie Swords of New Albany, Mississippi said CBS News said The constant sound of snapping branches and falling trees sounded “like firecrackers.”
Swords said he was without power, but he had a home generator, “thank God.” He and a friend had to use chainsaws to cut a path in and out of the community to get fuel, and the two planned to squat together and extend an invitation to other locals.
“I tell anyone who wants to come down, ‘I’ve got good gas, grill it out there right now,'” Soze said.
Power companies reported “catastrophic losses” in some states and warned that it could take “weeks, not days” to restore power to some customers.
Mississippi utility Oxford Utilities pulled its crews off the road Sunday night due to life-threatening conditions.
“While our linemen were in the bucket trucks, trees were actively breaking and falling,” the company said in a statement.
Mississippi Department of Transportation has been struggling to keep up, road workers John Sanford told CBS News.
“We have equipment here that’s spread out because there’s a lot of people going in different directions, and that’s what we have to do here primarily, whereas normally we would need a backhoe or a dozer to help move this stuff,” Sanford said.
“One of the guys we were working with didn’t make it back this morning. He had two trees on his property.”
Sanford said the biggest challenges are the cold and exhaustion: “You just feel physically tired, and you know, more and more trees are coming down and people need help. As soon as you clear one tree out, another one is going to come down.”
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is reportedly the worst-hit airport so far, with 338 flights canceled on Monday FlightAware, track delays and cancellations.
Boston’s Logan International Airport also had 315 flights canceled as of noon. Five other airports also canceled more than 200 flights: Charlotte/Douglas International Airport and Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., and Newark Liberty International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport in the New York area.
Nearly 4,000 flights were canceled on Saturday and more than 12,000 flights were canceled on Sunday.
A private plane with eight people on board crashes while trying to take off From Bangor International Airport Maine was hit by storms Sunday night. A government official briefed on the incident said the plane was engulfed in flames. Seven people were later confirmed dead..
Five people died after the bombing Trapped outside New York City. one A Texas man was found dead of apparent hypothermia in a gas station parking lot, and a 16-year-old girl died in a sledding accident in Frisco, Texas, on Sunday. According to Fox 4 News.
The Lehigh County Coroner in Pennsylvania said a total of three people died, ranging in age from 60 to 84 years old.
“I would like to remind the public to use caution when shoveling snow … especially those with a history of heart disease or other medical problems,” the coroner said in a statement. Published by ABC News.
In Arkansas, a 17-year-old boy died after hitting a tree while being towed by an all-terrain vehicle in the snow, according to the Saline County Sheriff’s Office. Boston ABC affiliate WCVB A Massachusetts woman was killed after she was reportedly struck by a snowplow backing up in a parking lot.
Three additional deaths were reported in Tennessee, two in Louisiana and one in Kansas.
president donald trump Approved emergency declaration more than a dozen states, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem – who supervises Federal Emergency Management Agency – says supplies, staff and search and rescue teams are being deployed across the country.
“We’re just asking everyone to be smart and stay home if possible,” Noem said.
Wind chills in the Midwest have dropped to -40 degrees Fahrenheit, and this biting cold can cause frostbite within minutes.