More than a million US power customers were in the dark Friday as a 'bomb cyclone' winter storm walloped the country, closing highways, grounding flights and causing misery for Christmas travelers.
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Over 200 million Americans were under weather warnings, as wind chills sent temperatures down as low as -55 Fahrenheit , according to the National Weather Service ."I can't see across the street," she told AFP. "We're not going anywhere."The biting cold is an immediate concern for hundreds of thousands of electricity customers who were without power, according to tracker poweroutage.us.
In Chicago, Burke Patten of Night Ministry, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the homeless, said: "We've been handing out cold weather gear, including coats, hats, gloves, thermal underwear, blankets and sleeping bags, along with hand and foot warmers." At least two traffic fatalities were reported in Oklahoma Thursday. Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, confirmed three in his state.
Around 5,000 US flights were canceled Friday and another 7,600 delayed, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, many at international hubs in New York, Seattle and Chicago's O'Hare.Christine Lerosen told ABC 7 she had been unable to find a flight out of Vancouver. Bomb cyclones produce heavy rain or snow. They can also cause flooding at coasts, and generate hurricane-force wind.
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