Frigid Cold Grips U.S. After Storm Dumps Snow and Ice
Millions across the country faced dangerously cold conditions after the storm dumped snow in at least 17 states, disrupting travel and causing power outages.
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Millions of people across eastern parts of the U.S. were bracing for dangerously cold temperatures on Monday, as local governments and residents scrambled to restore damaged infrastructure and halted services after a major winter storm.
The storm dumped snow across 17 states, from New Mexico to New Hampshire, according to preliminary figures from the National Weather Service, with more than a foot of accumulation in some areas. More than 85 million people remained under an extreme cold warning early Monday, and forecasters warned that hazardous temperatures would remain for days in some areas.
Transit disruptions are expected to continue in many cities on Monday, as officials advised against travel and reduced schedules for trains and buses. Air travel was also still disrupted, with more than 4,000 cancellations for U.S. flights early Monday, according to the airline tracker FlightAware.
Major institutions in the Northeast remained closed on Monday, including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo. New York City’s public schools switched to remote learning on Monday in response to the heavy snowfall.
In parts of the Midwest, the South and the Mid-Atlantic, where freezing rain, wind and snow brought down trees and power lines, thousands of households are expected to remain powerless as the week begins. About 830,000 electricity customers were without power in the U.S. on Sunday night, with Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana experiencing the most outages, according to Poweroutage.us.
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