The worst-hit state so far is Connecticut, where more than 100,000 homes are without power – Severe blackouts in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia and Maine
Hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. are without power due to the historic snowfall as severe storms and snowfall have caused back-to-back blackouts, according to PowerOutage.US. At the same time, Canada is also facing serious problems.
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The worst-hit US state so far is Connecticut, where more than 100,000 homes are without power. Georgia is next with nearly 90,000. Other areas with significant outages include South Carolina, Texas, and North Carolina.
On the west coast, Washington is currently the worst-hit state, with more than 10,000 homes without power.
Other areas without severe blackouts include Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia and Maine.
Blackout in Canada too
Canada also faces serious problems in electricity supply mainly in the eastern states. Quebec is experiencing the biggest problem so far, with nearly 120,000 power outages. Ontario and British Columbia follow.
More than 200 million Americans, or 60% of the population, are affected by the historic severe weather that is hitting the United States from coast to coast with the main elements of the storm being blizzards, heavy rains, freezing and strong winds with gusts reaching the 60 miles to the Mexican border.
More than 90 million people in the US are under weather alerts as an Arctic blast sweeps ahead of the holiday weekend. pic.twitter.com/ACA0DnLjMF
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“Severe weather extends across the central and eastern states and wide from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest,” according to the weather service.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said it expects a weather phenomenon known as a bomb cyclone – a rapidly strengthening storm that will develop as it moves across the Great Lakes on Friday.
The temperatures are shocking as temperatures below -50 degrees have already been recorded in parts of Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. In Colorado on Thursday the temperature registered a low record reaching -22.7 degrees Celsius.
More than 2,000 U.S. flights scheduled for Thursday and Friday were canceled, according to flight tracker FlightAware, including more than 700 departures and arrivals at two major Chicago airports and hundreds more in Denver.
New York State Gov. Kathy Hotchul declared the city a state of emergency, saying there was a serious threat of flooding. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called it “a unique and dangerous situation.”
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