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OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm.
The storm that overwhelmed power grids and immobilized the Southern Plains carried heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South and left behind painfully low temperatures. Wind-chill warnings extended from Canada into Mexico.
A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather has claimed more lives, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston blaze while using a fireplace to stay warm.
The storm that overwhelmed power grids and immobilised the Southern Plains carried heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South and left behind painfully low temperatures. Wind-chill warnings extended from Canada into Mexico.
In all, at least 20 deaths were reported. Other causes included car crashes and carbon monoxide poisoning. The weather also threatened to affect the nation’s Covid-19 vaccination effort.
100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow Share Updated: 10:19 AM CST Feb 17, 2021 By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED, Associated Press
100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow Share Updated: 10:19 AM CST Feb 17, 2021
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Show Transcript we asked the public to help us by keeping travel to a minimum. Don t travel it all if it can be avoided. Cities, towns and entire states across the nation still reeling from one deadly and destructive winter blast, now getting hit with another icy behemoth. Freezing temperatures. Leading toe water line ruptures in some places, causing streets to flood and freeze over the merciless, frigid 12 punch, leaving tens of millions of Americans under winter storm warnings or watches, including many across the South communities not accustomed to such bone chilling cold. When we went into the store, they barely had anything. There was barely any food there, so it s just like getti
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit