Texas, United States.
A gigantic wave of cold hits from the north to the south of United Statess causing heavy snowfall and the descent of temperatures affecting more than 200 million peoplelocal media reported this Monday.
The governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott, declared the state of emergency in the southern state, citing conditionss ‘extremely dangerous’. “All of Texas faces a winter storm extremely dangerous, “Abbott warned.
The heavy snowfall fell during Sunday night in From the river, near the border between the United States and Mexico. “Normally, we don’t have so much cold air so far south, “said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.
The strong frosts caused a massive accident last Thursday in Texas, where more than 100 cars and trucks hit after losing control in a frozen highway of Forth Worth, where they lost their lives at least 8 people, between them two Honduran immigrants.
Thousands of people were also left without electric power in that state and the authorities ask to avoid going out to the streets to avoid new traffic accidents.
See: Shocking images of the gigantic accident on a frozen Texas highway
More of 760 flights were canceled on Sunday in the Dallas-Fort International Airport Worth, as well as most of the nearly 200 flights from Southwest Airlines, the main airline of the airport. The forecast through Tuesday morning is 4 to 8 inches of snow (10 to 20 centimeters) in an area from the east of Texas to the Ohio Valley.
At least 46 states in the country remain under weather alerts because of these winter storms.
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