At least 19 people died after a huge winter storm hit the population of the North American continent hard, in an event that affects more than 3,200 kilometers from Texas, in the southwest of the United States. USA, to Quebec, located in northwestern Canada. More than a million and a half homes lost power and thousands of flights were cancelled, on one of the busiest weekends of the year.
Some regions in Elk Park, in Montana, USAmarked -45 degrees and some towns were frozen. In South Dakota, from the tribal offices they indicated that after running out of fuel, members of the native communities had to burn clothes to stay warm.
One of the most affected places in the North American nation is the West coast, where there were several floods due to snow storms, especially in the regions of New England, New York and New Jersey where various communities were flooded and part of the power lines in this area of the USA.
The New York governor told the Washington Post newspaper that she described this storm as a “sink storm” because: “He dumped everything on us except the sink, we had ice, snow, flooding, sub-zero temperatures, and whatever Mother Nature could throw at us in a single weekend”. Most of the deaths occurred due to automobile accidents, partly due to the state of the roads and due to the strong wind that spreads almost from east to west and from north to south throughout the country. the northern continent.
All for (American) football
Despite the large amount of snow and ice on the roads, it seems that the sports leagues continue throughout the week and a match between the NFL teams Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills will be played in the afternoon.
“My dad told us to stay, that we were crazy. We paid for these tickets two weeks ago and they cost us 85 dollars each, yesterday there were 6 because nobody wanted to go,” four fans told The New York Times. teenagers from the Chicago team who came to watch the game.
