Freezing monster storm across US claims at least 24 lives

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze on Sunday to ride out the freezing storm that has killed at least 24 people across the US and is expected to claim more&comma; after trapping some residents inside houses with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented&comma; stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>About 60&percnt; of the US population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning&comma; and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians&comma; the National Weather Service said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some 1&comma;346 domestic and international flights were cancelled as of early Sunday&comma; according to the tracking site FlightAware&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With snow swirling down untouched and impassable streets&comma; forecasters warned that an additional one to two feet of snow was possible in some areas until early Monday amid wind gusts of 40 mph&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two people died in their suburban home in Cheektowaga&comma; New York&comma; when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical conditions&comma; and another died in Buffalo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Four more deaths were confirmed overnight&comma; bringing the total to seven in Erie County&comma; where county executive Mark Poloncarz warned there may be more dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some were found in cars&comma; some were found on the street in snowbanks&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We know there are people who have been stuck in cars for more than two days&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The storm knocked out power in communities from Maine to Seattle&period; But heat and lights were steadily being restored across the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to poweroutage&period;us&comma; fewer than 300&comma;000 customers were without power at 8am on Sunday – down from a peak of 1&period;7 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Storm-related deaths were reported in recent days all over the country&colon; seven in Erie County&comma; New York&semi; 10 dead in multiple crashes in Ohio&comma; including a pileup involving some 50 vehicles&comma; a man whose vehicle ran into a snow plough and an electrocuted utility worker&semi; four motorists killed in separate crashes in Missouri and Kansas&semi; a Vermont woman struck by a falling branch&semi; an apparently homeless man found amid Colorado’s subzero temperatures&semi; a woman who fell through Wisconsin river ice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Florida&comma; the thermometer plunged below freezing for the first time in almost five years at Tampa International Airport&comma; and hit 6&period;1C in West Palm Beach&comma; according to the National Weather Service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The temperature drop was conducive to iguanas falling out of trees since the cold-blooded reptiles typically become immobilised in unusually cold weather&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd3c021afdb">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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