At least 17 people have died in the United States as a fearsome winter storm continues to pummel parts of the North America with blizzard conditions
Powerful Arctic winds left over a million customers without power yesterday and caused Christmas travel nightmares.
One couple in the lakeside city, which sits across the border from Canada, told AFP that with the roads completely impassible, they would not be making a ten-minute drive to see their family for Christmas. The"bomb cyclone" winter storm, one of the fiercest in decades, had already forced the cancellation of over 3,300 US flights yesterday and the delay of nearly 7,500 more, a day after nearly 6,000 were scrapped, according to tracking website Flightaware.com.
At one point during the day, nearly 1.7 million customers were without electricity in the biting cold, according to tracker poweroutage.us.
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