Icy roads, deadly tornadoes and storms over the weekend claimed 11 lives and caused extensive property damage in parts of the Midwest, South and Northeast United States.
Tens of thousands of people were left without power Sunday after the storm the day before, while officials in remote locations assessed the damage.
Storms tore down trees and tore off roofs, while the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado with gusts of about 210 meters per hour almost collapsed a high school in South Carolina, reports Tanjug.
The service announced that in Alabama, a tornado with a strength of 215 kilometers per hour "killed" three people.
Three people were killed in northwest Louisiana - a man whose house collapsed when a tree fell on it and a couple whose trailer was destroyed.
In Texas, two people were killed in a traffic accident due to slippery roads, and in similar conditions another man was killed in Iowa where a trailer overturned.
Another victim of the storm was recorded in Oklahoma, where a person drowned in flash floods.
In Wisconsin, strong winds and flooding caused about $1,2 million in damage on Lake Michigan, and the storm canceled more than XNUMX flights Saturday at Chicago's two major airports.
Strong winds and icy weather were factors in the power outages that affected tens of thousands of people in the South and Northeast, with the most homes affected in the states of Mississippi and Arkansas.
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