A battering winter storm has left scores of homes and businesses without power across the United States. On Saturday, millions more people worried how the prospect of further outages would effect holiday and travel plans. The blinding blizzards, freezing rain and frigid cold that enveloped much of the country knocked out power to an estimated 1.7 million households and businesses. A major electricity grid operator warned the 65 million people it serves across the eastern U.S. that rolling blackouts might be required. Officials say exposure, storm damage and car crashes on icy roads have killed at least 12.
Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures and blizzard conditions that cancelled 5000 flights in a huge storm that stretched from border to border.
MISSION, Kan. (AP) A wild winter storm continued to envelop much of the United States on Saturday, bringing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold that created mayhem .
A wild winter storm continued to envelop much of the United States on Saturday, bringing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold for 200 million Americans.