Thanksgiving this year lost its luster as storms and snowy weather have affected millions of people in the states, according to CNN.
According to the report, a combination of snow, rain and high winds has 32 states under some sort of watch, warning or weather advisory.
Rains pour on the Western states along the coast and heavy snow in the mountains; on the other coast.
Furthermore, high winds -- with gusts above 35 mph in several places, including San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada range, Chicago and Cleveland -- caused widespread power outages, while weather experts forecasted that winds would push northeast overnight.
Nearly 300,000 homes and businesses were without power across the country on the thanksgiving eve, while most of the outages were in Michigan, Ohio and California, according to utility tracking site poweroutage.us.
Earlier, it was reported that at least one person has died. The wind was expected to push eastward into South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, while a "bomb cyclone" weather phenomenon was expected to simultaneously topple trees, knock out power and dump snow as it rolled into California and Oregon.
Worth noting that Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.
Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and around the same part of the year in other places.
Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.
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