At least 34 people killed across the United States during a brutal winter storm and is expected to claim more lives after trapping some residents inside houses with heaping snow drifts.
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. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said, reports AP.
Around 200,000 people across several eastern states woke up without power on Christmas morning. The extreme weather sent wind chill temperatures in all 48 contiguous US states below freezing over the weekend.
Due to this weather thousands of flights canceled and trapped residents in ice- and snow-encrusted homes.
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