Newsdesk – A large number of people have strucked down in strom in USA. Frigid winter storm has killed more than 24 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses.
About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning. Some 1,346 domestic and international flights were canceled as of early Sunday, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.
Accordung to forecasters , a bomb cyclone , means when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm , had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
The storm knocked out power in communities from Maine to Seattle. But heat and lights were steadily being restored across the U.S. According to poweroutage.us, less than 300,000 customers were without power at 8 a.m. EDT Sunday – down from a peak of 1.7 million. In North Carolina, less than 6,600 customers had no power – down from a peak of 485,000 or more. Utility officials said rolling blackouts would continue for the next few days.
