(Morning News) Monday (January 3) was attacked by storms on Monday (January 3) in the eastern United States, causing at least five people to die, a large number of flights delayed or canceled, and hundreds of thousands of users were powered off.
Xinhua News Agency reported that a car in Maryland collided with a snowshat car, causing three people to die; a child in Tennessee and Georgia was killed by a tree that destroyed the house.
According to data from the National Meteorological Administration, the capital of Washington, Washington, and surrounding Virginia and Maryland's snowfall between 2 and 15 inches (about 5.08 cm to 38 cm).Among them, Washington's snowfall reached 8.5 inches (about 22 cm), the largest single -day snowfall since January 2016.
Blizzard has a serious impact on local travel.According to data from US flight tracking websites, there were more than 7,000 flight delays on the day and more than 3,000 flights were canceled.
Blizzard also caused hundreds of thousands of users to power off.As of 9 pm local time on Monday, more than 340,000 users in Virginia, the worst situation, did not restore power supply.
Affected by Blizzard, some public schools in Virginia and Maryland stopped classes from January 3rd to 4th.Washington Mayor Bao Ze announced on the 3rd that the opening date of the city's public school was postponed to 6th.
