Dangerous Cold Snap Leaves At Least 20 Dead in US — and It’s Not Over Yet
Dangerous cold snap leaves at least 20 dead in US — and it’s not over yet. A bone-chilling cold snap in large swaths of the US has left at least 20 people dead across the country, and there’s no signs of it letting up.
The weather that stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast brought record low temperatures, and with it, dangerous conditions for those out in the elements. In Tennessee alone, at least 11 people died as a result of hypothermia or accidents caused by icy conditions, according to local reports. In Philadelphia, an elderly woman with dementia wandered from her home, and later died of hypothermia.
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky also reported weather-related deaths, although official numbers in each state still remain unclear.
The deep freeze broke records in hundreds of cities across the eastern half of the United States on Friday, and is expected to last most of next week. Another widespread round of ice, snow or freezing rain is set to start falling Saturday from Missouri to the mid-Atlantic and as far south as Alabama and Georgia.
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