4 Reported Dead as Severe Storms Strike Several States
At least four people are reported to have been killed in weather-related incidents as powerful winter storms continued to create chaos across large swathes of the U.S.
Hundreds of thousands of customers in the East lost power on Wednesday, according to poweroutage.us, as strong winds and heavy rains sweep through the Northeast. Extreme weather also lashed the South and Midwest while blizzard conditions blasted the Northwest.
On Tuesday, multiple deaths were reported in the South amid the dangerous conditions. An 81-year-old woman was killed in Alabama after a suspected tornado flipped her mobile home several times. “She was in her mobile home, unfortunately, when she passed,” Houston County Deputy Coroner Andrew Byrd said, AL.com reports. A driver was also killed in Birmingham on Tuesday morning when a tree fell on their car.