At least 13 people have died and nearly a million customers were without power late Sunday, Jan. 25, as a fierce winter storm continues its damaging trek across the United States, with ice, sleet and freezing rain overloading electrical lines and trees.
Flight cancellations hit the highest point since the pandemic, and numerous closings have been announced through at least Monday in federal, state and local offices and schools.
With power outages across the eastern United States, meteorologists and emergency management officials are growing increasingly concerned about the extreme cold moving in behind the storm by Monday.
“The dangers aren’t over even with the precipitation ending,” Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, told USA TODAY. “A lot of the areas that are still getting the heavy ice, freezing rain, sleet and snow, will stay below freezing through the work week.
“We worry about people having cold weather exposure with no power,” Hurley said.
The massive storm expanded into the Mid-Atlantic overnight Sunday and moved into the Northeast on Sunday.
Despite the outages and troubles related to the storm, things weren’t all doom and gloom as many were able to make the most of the snow for some winter sports.
Source: Al-Manar English Website