Nearly 250 million Americans and Canadians are feeling the icy grip of a massive winter storm linked to at least 19 deaths before the holiday weekend.
Nearly 250 million Americans and Canadians are feeling the icy grip of a massive winter storm linked to at least 19 deaths before the weekend.
More than 1.5 million people have lost power and thousands of flights have been canceled since Thursday.
The massive storm stretched over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from Texas to Quebec.
A bomb cyclone, when atmospheric pressure drops, has created a blizzard in the Great Lakes region on the US-Canada border.
The NWS said more than eight million people remain under blizzard warnings.
Coastal flooding was seen in New England, New York, and New Jersey, inundating communities and bringing down power lines.
In the Pacific Northwest, some residents are snowboarding on the frigid streets of Seattle and Portland.
In the Pacific Northwest, some residents ice-skated on frozen streets in Seattle and Portland.
Even the usually milder southern states of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia were facing severe freeze warnings.
A number of storm-related deaths included road traffic accidents, including a 50-car pileup in Ohio that killed four motorists. Four others died in separate accidents in the state.
Travel problems across the country were exacerbated by a shortage of snow plow operators, with low pay rates being blamed.
Tracking website FlightAware reported that over 5,900 US flights were canceled Friday, as pilots struggled to get home for Christmas. Another 1,600 flights have already been canceled on Saturday.
According to PowerOutage.us, hundreds of thousands of people have been without power across the US since Friday.
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