Dozens of Americans have died due to severe weather in the central United States. Reported by The New York Times.
The deaths were caused by car accidents during icy conditions. It is also known of cases when whole families died trying to warm up without electric heating: they choked from the exhaust gases of a car running in the garage or burned down in a fire.
According to the newspaper, access to electricity is being restored in previously de-energized areas, but in several settlements in Texas, residents are left without running water. They stock up on bottled water, as there was no exact information on when the water supply would start working again.
It is also noted that the snow and cold disrupted the vaccination program: tens of thousands of US citizens were unable to get a coronavirus vaccine due to bad weather.
In February of this year, several states were covered by abnormal weather: frost and strong winds. The snowstorm left more than three million Americans without electricity. The largest power outages occurred in Texas. Utilities said power outages were “a last resort to maintain the reliability of the electrical system as a whole.”