AND cold wave which covers a large part NOW forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and some sporting events, such as matches Buffalo Bills-Pittsburgh Steelers rounds of ‘joker’ of the NFL, which was supposed to be played this Sunday at noon in Buffalo (New York), but was postponed to Monday.
Depending on the platform FlightAware, which monitors air traffic, more than 750 flights were canceled throughout the country this Sunday. Another 1,200 were postponed.
More than 1,100 flights were canceled on Saturday, and more than 2,000 on Friday. Among the most affected airports were O’Hare, in Chicago, Illinois), and Metropolitan Wayne County in Detroit (Michigan).
Namely, in Chicago, this year’s first death from the cold was recorded, in the suburb of Schiller Park. It was a 60-year-old man who died on Thursday, writes the Chicago Sun-Times.
The power grid was also affected, which can be seen on the website PowerOutage.us. In Oregon, in the northwest of the United States, about 158,000 people were left without power after a winter storm in which at least one person died of hypothermia.
In it midwest Heavy snowfall was also recorded, and wind gusts exceeded 70 kilometers per hour.
The winter storms, in fact, ended up affecting the Iowa caucuses, the first official meeting in the race for the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) yesterday encouraged his followers not to be intimidated by the extreme cold and to go to the polls en masse on Monday to support him.
Trump had planned to arrive in Iowa much earlier, but heavy snow that fell on Friday delayed his trip and caused the cancellation of most of his public events.
Nikki Haley, who is climbing in the polls but is still a long way from catching up with the former president, has been forced to take some of her personal actions in the state into cyberspace.
The National Weather Service warns today that 95 million citizens are in areas affected by a cold air warning, while some southern states, such as Tennessee or Arkansas, could suffer winter storms this Sunday.
Source: Panama America
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