19/02/2021 01:05 (UTC)

Nearly 1 mn in US still without power for third consecutive day due to winter storms

Washington DC, Feb 18 (EFE/EPA).- Nearly 1 million people in the United States were without power for a third consecutive day on Thursday due to back-to-back winter storms that are blamed for dozens of deaths.

Between 30 and 40 fatalities are attributed to the storms, including people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning after using combustion heaters indoors to stay warm, US media reported.

At least 515,137 customers were still without electricity service in Texas alone on Thursday morning, according to the platform PowerOutage.us, which monitors outages nationwide. (Camera: WILL OLIVER).

B-ROLL OF BUILDINGS AND STREETS COVERED IN SNOW IN WASHINGTON DC, US.

Metadata

Date: 19/02/2021 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EPA
Topic: Weather
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 146 seconds
Reference: 7001047632
Relevance: Normal