"This happens once in a life"

In the USA - abnormally cold weather. At least 37 people died

In the USA since December 23 - the most severe frosts over the past few decades, and a snow storm has passed in the eastern part of the country. The Governor of the state of New York Katie Hokul called the disaster “times in life”, adding that it would go down in history, because it surpassed the intensity, duration and power of the wind of the 1977 storm, when more than 30 people died.

The most affected area of ​​the great lakes near the border of the United States and Canada. In one day alone, in Michigan, more than a meter of snow fell, in New York-about 86 centimeters.

Buffalo suffered most of the storm - the wind speed there reached 58 kilometers per hour there on December 23. At the weather station in the Lakavannu district, in Pennsylvania, gusts of wind were recorded with a speed of more than 120 kilometers per hour.

The head of the County Eri (the administrative center of which is Buffalo) Mark Poloncartz described the snow storm as follows: “Imagine that a piece of white paper is a few feet from your face - and that’s all that you see for more than 24 hours. This is what it looked like on the street. ”

According to Mark Polonkarstz, in Eri district about 500 people were locked in their cars. Emergency services and forces of the National Guard were involved in their salvation. The Governor of the state of New York reported that by Sunday, December 25, the state police carried out more than 500 rescue operations.

CNN writes that 37 people died during the storm, 16 of them in Buffalo. Most of them died in car accidents.

Frost and severe wind also caused damage to power lines and shutting off the substations, which turned into mass failures in power supply on the east coast of the United States. In total, according to The Washington Post, at least 1.5 million people collided with the power outage.

Anomalous weather also affected air transportation. In total, more than 10 thousand flights have been canceled in recent days. In particular, according to the Flightaware website, on December 23, almost six thousand flights were canceled , the next day - three thousand. On December 25-26, about eight thousand internal and international flights were canceled in the United States.

“It was not the Christmas we wanted, [but] it will be Christmas, which we will all remember,” the Washington Post quoted the words of the head of the Eri district in Buffalo.