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3 killed as ‘historic’ snowstorm blasts Midwest US
At least three people have been killed, including a sleeping two-year-old girl, as a violent spring storm has battered the Midwest with powerful winds and heavy snow.
The storm front swept across the Midwest this weekend, leaving large swathes of the region blanketed in snow. The city of
St. Paul in Minnesota was forced to declare a snow emergency, while nearby Minneapolis is predicted to receive more than 50 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the region.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, which serves the two cities, was forced to cancel nearly 500 flights. Airport officials said the snow was falling too fast for plows to keep runways clear.
Hundreds of crashes were reported across the state. Some
300 thousand houses were without electricity.
Comment: The US has been battered by snow storms since the beginning of winter, spring is here and the cold weather is not abating:
- Is the Gulf Stream about to collapse and is the new ice age coming sooner than scientists think?
- Historic cold record broken for Edmonton, Canada
- Ice storm pelts Southern Ontario with more than 550 collisions on Toronto-area highways
- Think the snowfall is finished? Over a foot of snow falls on the Twin Cities
- Records broken with latest snow fall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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