The United States in an Ice Trap – Liberation

After the passage of the “storm of the century” which has already caused the death of 61 people, of which about thirty in the city of Buffalo alone, in the state of New York, but accustomed to freezing winters, the country hopes for a return to warmer temperatures warm in the middle of the week.

Brandon Clement is storm chaser, A professional storm chaser: he crosses the United States all year round to go wherever climatic disasters may occur – hurricanes, tornadoes, floods -, anticipate them and collect images that are often among the most striking. As the ‘blizzard of the century’ prepared to subject all of North America to a surge of arctic air and its wake of extreme weather (Hawaii this weekend was the only US state to escape favorable temperatures to frost), this menacing bird, rendered somewhat insignificant by force of habit, has come to spend Christmas in Buffalo, about six hours’ drive from Manhattan, on the northwestern edge of the state of New York. And what he saw and filmed there, with the help of firefighters and police officers trapped in their vehicle by snowfall and strong winds, reminded him of the violence of Dorian, one of the two worst hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin .

“I’ve covered winter storms in just about every goddamn state in this country, and this blizzard is infinitely worse than the worst I’ve ever seen,” wrote on Twitter Sunday, from the city that has by far the heaviest human toll of the storm: more than 30 dead were counted at the scene on Tuesday (