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Winter storm paralyzes parts of the USA – firefighter dies
Ice storm damage blocks a road in Kalamazoo. photo
© Rodney Coleman-Robinson/Kalamazoo Gazette/AP/dpa
Hundreds of thousands without power and around 2,000 canceled flights: A winter storm has the Midwest and Northwest of the USA firmly in its grip. And even today the prospects are no better.
Power failure, icy roads, canceled flights: A winter storm has paralyzed parts of the United States. The Midwest and Northwest of the country were particularly affected.
According to media reports, around 2,000 flights were canceled yesterday and hundreds of thousands of people were temporarily without power. In the US state of Michigan, a firefighter was killed during an operation. He was killed by a falling power line, it said. Because of the winter storm, weather warnings were in effect for tens of millions of people.
Today, the “unusually cold and slow-moving winter storm” will bring very heavy snowfall and winds to the state of California, the weather service said. A blizzard warning has been issued for parts of the state for the first time in decades. The meteorologists also warned of flooding in southern California. In other regions, the heavy snowfall and freezing winds would gradually ease. The “record-breaking heat” in the east of the country is now over – but the temperatures remained above the norm.