The United States freezes under an icy storm that leaves millions of people without power and 5,300 flights canceled

A large number of US states have registered temperatures below zero as a major freezing storm, known as a ‘bomb cyclone’, left millions of homes without electricity and thousands of travelers stranded at the gates of the Christmas holidays. The phenomenon, caused by an arctic air frontwill be responsible for the country living its Coldest Christmas in 40 years.

For the moment, ten people have died on the roads since the storm began in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ohio. In other places, like Chicago, Illinois, or Nashville, Tennessee, roads have been clogged for hours as temperatures have dropped, rain has turned to ice and the wind has blown into blizzards. And in Denver (Colorado)Thursday was the second coldest day on record: the average temperature was 26 degrees below zero. However, for the moment, the record is held by Idaho, which has reached 50 degrees below zero.

Transportation problems have also affected the trains and bus companiessuch as Greyhound, the largest of them, which has already warned that many routes in the Northeast or Midwest may be canceled or altered.

Besides, more than 1.4 million households or offices they are without electricityaccording to the records of the website ‘PowerOutage.us’, while around 5,300 flights were canceled on Friday.

The strong storms winter will affect about 200 million people60% of the country’s population, according to projections by the national weather service, the National Weather Service (NWS).

The President of the USA, Joe Bidenappeared publicly on Thursday to warn Americans that take the storm “extremely seriously”and that they follow the recommendations of the authorities.

We speak with a Spanish resident in Chicago

Claudia’s mother has barely managed to spend Christmas with her daughter. “We were a little scaredbut we managed to get there. If we had waited until today, we wouldn’t have been able to come,” says the woman. Claudia, who lives in Chicago and has welcomed her family with open arms, points out that they “bought more food than they should, just in case.”