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(Reuters) -A winter storm bringing snow, ice and excessive winds to components of the U.S. Midwest and Pacific Northwest knocked out energy for a whole lot of 1000’s of properties and companies on Saturday, with a brutal freeze anticipated to grip quite a few states.
The Nationwide Climate Service mentioned the storm will carry heavy snow, sturdy winds and blizzard situations to the Midwest, with harmful and frigid temperatures anticipated throughout the Rockies and Plains.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday mentioned storms proceed to trigger flight cancellations and delays. Airways delayed greater than 7,600 flights throughout the U.S. on Friday, together with planes grounded at Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport, as a consequence of winds and blinding snow.
Some 150,000 properties and companies have been with out energy in Michigan, in line with knowledge from energy outage tracker . Energy was out for one more 200,000-plus prospects in Oregon and Wisconsin.
In Iowa, Republican presidential candidates canceled some occasions forward of the state’s caucuses on Monday, the primary of the state-by-state contests wherein events decide their nominees for November’s election.