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Weather Woes Dampen 2022 Holiday Spirit
The holiday weekend was marred by one of the worst winter storms to hit the U.S. in decades.
At least 19 people were killed over the holiday weekend as a monster storm blanketed much of the continental U.S. in frigid conditions.
Over 200 million households were under a weather advisory of some kind as Christmas Eve approached. The icy temperatures and white-out conditions brought with them thousands of flight cancelations along with travel snarls and traffic accidents.
“Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages, flash flooding and canceled holiday plans from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning just days before Christmas,” reported CBS News on December 24.
“Multiple highways were closed and crashes claimed at least six lives, officials said,” according to The Associated Press today. “At least two people died in a massive pileup involving some 50 vehicles on the Ohio Turnpike. A Kansas City, Missouri, driver was killed Thursday after skidding into a creek, and three others died in separate crashes on icy northern Kansas roads.”