The massive crash of about 50 vehicles on the Ohio Turnpike it caused the death of one person and several people were injured. The multiple collision disrupted nearby vehicular traffic sanduskydue to severe winter storm affecting several cities in the United States (EU).
The ohio highway patrol reported that more accidents occurred to the east, causing highway closures in both directions and diverting traffic to more exits. He warned drivers that snow flurries caused by winter storm They can reduce visibility on the roads.
Ohio is in the top 10 states with power outages with at least 66,500 customers without service, damage to highways and delays in commercial air trafficderived from an arctic cold combined with a “bomb cyclone” of abundant winter snow from the Great Lakes region to the valleys of the Upper Mississippi.
The city of Buffalo and the surrounding county on the edge of Lake Erie in western New York has imposed a driving ban on the winter storm. The three border bridges in the area of Buffalo they were closed to vehicular traffic arriving from Canada due to freezing weather.
A severe winter storm hits the United States at Christmas
More than a million homes without electricity, thousands of canceled flights, closed roads and several fatal accidents have left the winter storm in U.S United States of America was preparing this Saturday to receive the Christmas the day after a day disrupted by a winter storm of unusual intensity.
About 1.5 million homes and businesses lost power in the eastern half of the United States, Texas from Friday, when the winter storms They have affected most of the country. the same inside Buffalo yes New Yorkaffected by the Arctic Blast which causes temperatures to drop on the eve of Christmas Eve.
It is expected that This Saturday, December 24, winter temperatures drop to minus 13 degrees Celsius in Pittsburghsurpassing the previous all-time high on Christmas Eve 1983, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
It was also expected that the cities of Georgia yes South Carolina (Athens and Charleston) record the winter temperatures coldest on Christmas Eve, while it is expected to be so Washington DCwill experience the coldest December 24 since 1989.
