America (The Stellar News): At least 34 people have lost their lives in weather-related incidents across the United States, according to an NBC News tally as the monster storm gripped most of the nation coupled with snow, ice and howling winds, reported Reuters.
The storm, known as a bomb cyclone, is expected to claim more lives as it has trapped some residents inside houses with heaping snow drifts and knocked out power in lakhs of homes and businesses.
More than a lakh people are currently experiencing blackouts and power outages, according to PowerOutage.us. In Buffalo, 16% of residents had no electricity on Christmas, Reuters reported.
In Canada, electricity was also out to at least 1,40,000 utility customers, mostly in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, hard hit by the same weather system that buried western New York in snow.
