EFE.- The governor of New York, Kathy Hochulhas deployed more emergency personnel than various agencies, including the National guardas well as equipment, to help New Yorkers in the city of Buffaloin the western part of the state, the hardest-hit region winter storm, where two people died because they were unable to get the medical care they needed.
“What is happening is life threatening Buffalohit by one of the world’s worst snowstorms causing residents, emergency services personnel and equipment to be trapped on the roads. The city had to close the border bridges with Canada.
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“Ice, flooding, snow, low temperatures” and blackouts, led “Eliot” as he passed New Yorkhighlighted Hochul who declared a state of emergency on Friday and mobilized National Guard personnel, who increased this Saturday to help with health emergencies and search and rescue operations.
“Eliot“, a cyclone bomb from an Arctic air front has been causing sub-zero temperatures since Thursday Canada until Texasas well as heavy snowfall, strong winds and rain.
Kathy Hochul reminded what New Yorkers are used to winter storms“but this has had a big impact and caused total blackout conditions in the west” of the state, which have been restored, but there are still households without electricity at a time when temperatures have reached single digits.
About 700,000 people were left without electricity to their homes across the country as of 8pm local time, mainly in the states of North Carolina yes Maineaccording to the Power Outage tracker and at least 15 people died in the storm, according to local media tallies, four of them in a multiple crash on a highway in Ohio covered with snow and two in New York.
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The president of the United States, Joe Bidenappeared publicly on Thursday to warn Americans to take the storm “extremely seriously” and to follow the recommendations of the authorities.
