A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the country, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. 9News
A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the country, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and leaving millions of people on edge about the possibility of Christmas Eve blackouts.
Blinding blizzards, freezing rain and frigid cold also knocked out power in places from Maine to Seattle, while a major electricity grid operator warned the 65 million people it serves across the eastern US that rolling blackouts might be required. Those without power included James Reynolds of Greensboro, who said his housemate, a 70-year-old with diabetes and severe arthritis, spent the morning bundled beside a kerosene heater with indoor temperatures "hovering in the 50s" .
A fountain is frozen as temperatures hovered in the mid 20s at Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home in New Orleans. A utility worker in Ohio was also killed Friday while trying to restore power, according to the Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative. It said the 22-year-old died in "an electrical contact incident" near Pedro in Lawrence County.
As millions of Americans were traveling ahead of Christmas, more than 2360 flights within, into or out of the US were canceled Saturday, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
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