Na wah! This winter storm wey don land for USA no be small matter at all. From Texas go wan enter Maine, dis storm don cause wahala everywhere, e don take life of at least 30 people!
Imagine as heavy snow, ice and cold weather dey disturb everywhere! For Texas, dem find one 16-year-old girl wey die for sledding accident, and for Austin, one person don die from hypothermia. How bad e don be, e don reach to call emergency.
Even Louisiana and Mississippi dey report their own deaths too. Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi talk say wey dey try manage the impacts wey de come from this storm, say na severe winter matter wey dem no fit take light.
For New York City, na eight people dem find dead outside during this cold weekend. Dem say for Kansas, one woman dey buried under snow after she waka out without her coat. Abeg, make we do better!
Destructive ice don scatter power lines and trees, and everywhere dey under siege! E don lead to more than 670,000 power outages for the whole country, majority na from the South, where freezing rain don scatter power at all angles.
Many flights don jam this weekend, more than 12,000 flights don cancel or delay on top all these wahala. If you no wan travel, just stay house and chill! But if you wan travel, make sure say you don prepare well because na wetin we dey see everywhere.
Dis storm don cover over 200 million people for cold alerts, and forecasters dey predict say di bitter cold fit continue until early February. Abeg, if you dey fit stay warm, do am well.
Belleful news be say, even as di snow dey fall, di National Weather Service dey talk say we go see another big winter storm fit come again this weekend. Na so everything dey be now. E be like say cold go be our roommate for a while.
Proudly, dem dey try clear roads and restore power, but traffic don jam! Massachusetts see as much as 20 inches of snow, and dem dey still manage di remaining ice. Schools everywhere don close down, some dey do remote learning, as students no fit trek go school.
Na serious matter o! With all these states of emergency wey don declare, make we hope say updates go dey regular so we fit sabi how to adapt with these new changes wey dey come!
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