At least 13 people were killed due to the heavy snow storm, including 3 people were killed due to the ambulance skidded while transporting the patient.
According to the National Weather Services, winter storm warnings and advisories were in place from Arkansas east to much of the Atlantic coast. The storm is expected to sock the northeastern United States in the next two days with up to 15 inches of snow.
According to the Carl Barnes (Weather service forecaster in Sterling, Virginia), we definitely consider this to be a high-impact event, and we’re definitely telling everyone to stay off the roads and stay inside as much as possible.
This snow storm is mostly dangerous for the drives, because mostly people were killed road accidents due to the heavy storm.
According to the forecasters, More than an inch of ice was possible from central Georgia into South Carolina by Thursday morning.
According to the Sherri Pekks (Wife of Todd Pekks), “Todd Pekks, (chef at Duke University) was just half a mile into his drive home to Raleigh when he began to skid so badly he gave up,”
States of Emergency is declared in from Louisiana to New Jersey. Due to the weather storm hundreds of schools, colleges and offices were closed.
According to the Amy Fink (spokeswoman of Georgia Power), The U.S. Department of Energy reported that 363,000 power customers were without electricity as of mid-afternoon. More than a third of them were in Georgia, where some residents may have to wait up to a week for power to be restored.
According to the Governor Nathan Deal, Most motorists in Georgia, where thousands were stranded in their vehicles during the last weather front, stayed off the roads after a state of emergency was declared.
State Of Emergency, 13 Were Killed, Schools, Colleges, Offices Closed Due To Weather Storm
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