Dozens of homes destroyed in Florida: snow, hail and tornadoes hit eastern US – media – society

A major winter storm of snowstorms, hail and tornadoes grips the eastern United States from Florida in the south to the state of Maine in the north. A storm area had already cut off tens of thousands of households in the south-east of the country on Sunday (local time) and caused traffic problems, as US media reported.

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On Monday there will be heavy snowfall in the northeast and then on Tuesday it will move towards Canada’s southeast, the US weather agency National Weather Service said. More than 50 million residents are affected, wrote the US broadcaster CNN.

Two people drove their car off the road in the winter weather in North Carolina on Sunday and died in an accident, a spokesman for the highway patrol confirmed to CNN and other media. Even in the sunny state of Florida, the storm area made itself felt in the form of snow flurries and tornadoes. At least 28 homes were destroyed in Southwest Florida, local authorities were quoted as saying by CNN. According to media reports, states such as Georgia declared a state of emergency.

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