Tens of millions of Americans and about two-thirds of all Canadians endure bone-chilling temperatures and blizzard conditions from a winter storm that US forecasters say is nearly unprecedented in its scope
Tens of millions of Americans have endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and cancelled holiday gatherings from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60 percent of the US population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.
Utilities in Nashville, Memphis and throughout the Tennessee Valley said they were implementing rolling blackouts Friday to conserve power as the region battles an extreme cold front. Even though fleets of snow plows and salt trucks have been deployed, driving was hazardous and sometimes deadly. A Kansas City, Missouri, a driver died on Thursday after skidding into a creek. And state police in Michigan said reported multiple crashes Friday, including a pileup involving nine tractor-trailers.Nearly 170 adults and children were keeping warm early Friday in Detroit at a shelter and a warming center that are designed to hold 100 people.
Other tribes also were struggling, including the Oglala Sioux Tribe in the western part of the state, which was using snowmobiles to reach members who live at the end of miles-long dirt roads.In Boston, rain combined with a high tide, sent waves over the seawall at Long Wharf in Boston and flooded some downtown streets.
It was so bad in Vermont that Amtrak canceled service for the day, and nonessential state offices were closing early.
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