The death toll from a series of devastating storms that have hit the U.S. has risen to 13 as the Midwest and South cleanup and the West Coast attempts to dig out from the snow.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Saturday that five people were killed across multiple counties on March 4 from the severe weather including high winds. One additional person died indirectly from the winter weather.
The storms have left more than 300,000 people across Kentucky and Michigan in the darkness as of Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us.
In Southern California, residents and visitors resorted to writing out ‘help us’ in the snow as they have been trapped for more than a week by feet of snow.
‘It feels helpless right, and it’s kind of a frustrating type of helpless,’ said one man who has been isolated in the San Bernardino mountains for nearly two weeks.
Last week, winds in Kentucky reached up to 75 miles per hour in Kentucky, causing major widespread destruction. According to Beshear, the majority of the damage was to trees and power lines.
As of Sunday, more than 216,000 residents are still without power and Beshear warned Saturday it could take days to restore power. Similarly, Michigan still has nearly 110,00 without power as of Sunday.
‘Very significant widespread damage and is going to take days to get power back up in some places,’ Gov. Beshear said Saturday at a press conference.
The governor described the powerful winds by explaining that some residents in Franklin County – located between Lexington and Louisville – could ‘feel the walls moving.’
SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
