Fierce storm Elliot leaves at least 7 dead in northwest New York

Winter storm Elliot, which traversed USA from west to east, it has caused seven deaths in northwestern New York, Governor Kathy Hochul reported Sunday.

At a press conference, the governor reported that there are still 39,000 homes without electricity in the state, 27,000 of them in the county of eriewhere the deaths have occurred, adding that there are still people trapped in homes and vehicles.

SIGHT: New York under a state of emergency due to the passage of storm Elliott

Hochul pointed out that in some places up to 75 centimeters of snow have fallen and warned that although the snowstorm, which is accompanied by an intense blizzard that makes visibility difficult, is already subsiding, the situation continues to be “dangerous” and the weather “excessively” cold.

“We are still facing freezing weather across the state. These low temperatures are life-threatening, so New Yorkers should stay indoors today.”insisted the governor.

Authorities have banned travel in six northwestern counties of the state (erie, Niagara, chautauqua, Orleans, Jefferson Y St Lawrence), where hundreds of people have been rescued by emergency services.

Yesterday, Hochul ordered the deployment of additional emergency personnel from various agencies, including 200 members of the National Guard, as well as equipment, to help New Yorkers in the town of Buffalo, capital of Erie County.

The stormwhich has caused everything USA about twenty fatalities began to subside this Sunday, although it still keeps the country mired in low temperatures and with some havoc at airports and highways.

The National Weather Service, the National Weather Service (NWS), predicted this Christmas Sunday that the Arctic front “advances slowly to the east while weakening”, still leaving low temperatures and some snowfall.

According to the NWS report at 1:30 p.m. GMT, only 190,000 people are already under alert for a snow storm, concentrated in the state of New York. On the eve, there were 4 million inhabitants.

Source: Elcomercio

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