2024-01-14T06:50:24+00:00
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/ A snowstorm led to a power outage to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in parts of the American Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, with many states expected to be paralyzed due to the accumulation of ice.
The National Weather Service said the storm will bring heavy snow, high winds and gusts to the Midwest, with temperatures expected to reach a dangerous level of freezing across the Rockies and Plains.
The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Saturday that the storms were still causing flight cancellations and delays.
Airlines delayed more than 7,600 flights across the United States on Friday, including planes that were prevented from taking off at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport due to winds and heavy snowfall.
Power was cut off to more than 151,000 homes and businesses in Michigan, according to data from a website that tracks, records and collects data on power outages in the United States, and power was cut off to more than 200,000 other subscribers in the states of Oregon and Wisconsin.
In Iowa, candidates competing for the Republican Party’s nomination to run in the presidential elections canceled some events before the state’s caucuses on Monday, at the start of a state race during which parties will choose their candidates to run in the November presidential elections.