Some died due to exposure, officials said
Officials have confirmed that 17 people have died due to exposure, icy car crashes and other effects as a devastating winter storm battered the US, Canada, and Mexico today.
The frigid temperatures and gusty winds were expected to produce “dangerously cold wind chills across much of the central and eastern US this holiday weekend”, the weather service said, adding that conditions “will create a potentially life-threatening hazard for travellers that become stranded”. Commercial and industrial power users have also been asked to cut back. PJM officials said they want people to be prepared for the possibility of rolling blackouts. “It’ll be short-lived, we’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but it is a real possibility,” said Mike Bryson, PJM’s senior vice president for operations.
A 51-year-old woman died on Friday after a tree in her back garden fell on her in west-central Vermont near the New York border. In New York, an Erie County official said two people died in their homes when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical emergencies. The Colorado Gazette reported that police found the dead body of a person who appeared to be homeless near a mall on Thursday.
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