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More than 1mn households are without power in the US as a historic winter storm blasts across the country ahead of the holiday weekend.
More than 200mn people, about 60 per cent of the US population, were under some form of winter weather warning or advisory as of Friday morning, the National Weather Service said, describing it as among the “greatest extents” of winter weather warnings ever recorded.
“It’s been a blockbuster. There’s been widespread impacts across most of the country,” said Ashton Robinson Cook, a meteorologist at the National Weather Center, adding that numerous temperature records have been broken.
The winter storm has caused disruptions on one of the busiest travel days of the year. More than 4,000 flights have been cancelled within, into, or out of the US on Friday, according to FlightAware.
Most households without power are concentrated in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Maine, according…
