[News] Heavy snowfall, low temperatures and hurricane-force winds: Storm Elliot leaves more than 30 dead in the US.

[FNX Magokiler]

The weather phenomenon has been recorded from the Great Lakes, near Canada, to the Rio Grande, along the border with Mexico.

At least 38 people have died in recent days from causes related to the freezing storm Elliot, which has affected a large part of the country with heavy snowfall, low temperatures and hurricane-force winds, according to the US network CBS.

The CNN network puts the number of deaths due to inclement weather at 37, while hundreds of thousands of citizens were left without electricity during Christmas.

Millions of people had to take shelter from severe frost overnight and early morning to weather the frigid storm that gripped much of the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heavy drifts of snow, CBS reported.

 

 

The storm's reach has been almost unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande River along the Mexican border.

About 60% of the US po[CENSORED]tion faced some form of winter weather advisory or advisory, with temperatures dropping sharply below normal from the Rocky Mountains east to Appalachia, the government said. National Metereological Service.

Thousands of US flights were canceled on Saturday and nearly 3,000 as of Sunday night, according to the FlightAware tracking site cited by CBS. At least seven people died in the Buffalo area (New York state), where the storm was the worst, collapsed by snow and whose airport will remain closed until at least this Monday. The dead were found in vehicles, at homes and on the street, Erie County authorities reported. There have also been deaths from accidents or from the cold in Kansas, Missouri, Vermont, Colorado, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to the local press. Elliot was slowly moving east as it weakened, though temperatures remain frigid and cooler than usual in the eastern, central, and southern parts of the country.

 

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