More than one million customers in the US as far west as New Mexico were without electricity and over 10,000 flights were cancelled yesterday during a monster winter storm that paralysed eastern and southern states with heavy snow and ice.
As snow, sleet, freezing rain and dangerously frigid temperatures swept into the eastern two-thirds of the nation, the number of power outages continued to rise. As of 2.16pm yesterday, more than 1m US customers were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us, with at least 330,000 in Tennessee and over 100,000 each in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Other states affected included Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, West Virginia and Alabama.
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