Winter storm in the United States leaves at least 3 dead and power cuts

U.S This Tuesday received the first winter storm of the year, with strong winds, tornadoes and blizzards that especially hit the center and southeast of the country and caused at least three deaths and electricity cuts that affected around 300,000 people.

According to local media, one person died in the county of Clayton (Georgia) when a tree falls on your vehicle’s windshield; although two lives were claimed by tornadoes in manufactured housing communities, one in Catawba (North Carolina) and another in the county of Houston (Alabama).

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The storm seriously affected the state of Florida, where, at noon, 92,935 people were without electricity; The citizens of North Caroline (63,853), Georgia (62,497), Pennsylvania (47,967) and Alabama (32,389), according to data from PowerOutage.

The main threats are strong gusts of wind, hail and tornadoes; The latter keep northern Florida, southeast Georgia and much of North Carolina on alert.

In fact, the National Weather Service have already reported several tornadoes in Florida, and emergency services have reported “significant damage” in some locations such as Panama City Beach any Bay Countywhere some houses collapsed and roads were cut.

On the other hand, heavy snowfall last night covered areas ranging from north of Texas until the Great Lakesclose to the border with Canadaleaving 18 million people under a snow warning today.

So far, more than 40 million people in the United States are on high alert due to the storm, according to the Storm Forecast Centerand around half of the population is on alert due to strong gusts of wind, which extend across the south and northeast.

The American meteorological entity warned that this situation is “particularly dangerous”.

On the other hand, the risk of flooding is latent in areas where heavy rains are more acute, and meteorologists have warned that storms could produce flooding from Florida to southern Florida. Maine.

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Bob Oravecmeteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Wall Street Journal that during the next 24 or 48 hours heavy rains will also hit the eastern states, and warned of the risk of flooding in large urban areas such as Washington D.C, New York It is Boston.

Additionally, the areas that accumulated the most snow during last weekend’s storm will be the most vulnerable to potential flooding.

Experts have urged people to avoid leaving their homes in coastal cities like New York, warning of strong winds this evening, which could hit the state with gusts of more than 100 kilometers per hour.

Source: Elcomercio

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