© Seth Herald / AFPMillions of Americans are under severe weather warnings as the United States face holiday travel chaos due to arctic winter storm, December 23, 2022.
Nearly 70 percent of the country's population - 240 million Americans - are under weather warnings. According to the National Weather Service, the temperatures fell down to -55 degrees Fahrenheit.
The electricity outage was especially common in the southern and eastern states. Another concern was near-zero visibility on the roads, covered in ice and blizzard with transportation authorities urging people to stay home. At least two traffic fatalities were reported in Oklahoma, another three were confirmed in Kentucky.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul called the arctic storm raging through the country "epic" during a press briefing.
"The roads are going to be like an ice skating rink and your tires cannot handle this," she warned the residents.
Over 4,400 U.S. flights were canceled on Friday preventing thousands of travelers from reaching their families ahead of Christmas holidays. Earlier on Thursday, nearly 2,700 canceled flights were reported, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. Passenger railroad Amtrak has also canceled dozens of trains through Christmas.
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Be Safe, and Warm!!
hope you've got yer wooly onesies, keep warm VC !
The media and Governments are blind to the real reason, no doubt if they were told they'd blame the population for inappropriate use of Fossil fuel, what a load of BOLLOCKS.
It's time to adapt to survive as Earth's atmosphere and weather is about to do a U- turn.
It's Christmas and do you think that I could hunt down and gather a beer around here?!? No!!