NEW YORK (Washington Insider Magazine) – A winter storm that pounded most of the USA, from the Far South to the northern tip, dissipated over the Atlantic on Saturday, leaving severe cold in its wake.
According to official forecasters, thousands of Americans awoke without electricity as up to seventeen inches of snow and ice blanketed regions of New York State, Indiana, Vermont and Maine.
Memphis Light, Water and Gas utility personnel worked through the past weekend to bring power to 90,000 customers who lost power due to what the company’s management dubbed “the ice storm of 2022.”
They were limited by snowfall, according to utility CEO J.T. Young, who spoke at a press conference on Saturday evening.
By midnight, the business hoped to have restored electricity to 25,000 to 30,000 people. The power interruptions occurred on Saturday in below-freezing weather.
Federal forecasters predicted that a wave of normal to above-average temperatures will sweep through some of the cold-affected areas, from the Northern Plains to the Central Plains.
According to poweroutage.us, little under 82,000 utility consumers in Tennessee were missing power Saturday night. In the state of New York, that number was 26,298.
The NWS has issued winter advisory warnings for parts of New York, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan through the weekend. However, the weather would gradually warm up by Sunday, according to the forecast.
Hundreds of car accidents occurred as the roads got icy.
Since Thursday, officers have attended to at least 200 collisions, according to the force.
According to NBC NEWS, as the snow sweeps out to sea late Saturday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul advised citizens to stay home as much as possible to avoid ice-covered roads and the fear of falling tree branches in the Hudson Valley and Capital districts.
The cleanup following a suspected tornado that ripped across Tennessee on Thursday moved further south. Memphis’ public works director, Robert Knecht, stated Thursday night that 225 trees had already fallen on city streets.
Although they were in the small minority, several people appreciated the heavy snowfall. Vermont’s snowboarders and skiers reported some of the finest conditions of the month.
