Americans are enduring bone-chilling temperatures, blizzards, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings today. More than 200 million people were under some form of winter weather advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said.
— when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
Activists also were rushing to get the homeless out of the cold. Nearly 170 adults and children were keeping warm early Friday in Detroit at a shelter and a warming center that are designed to hold 100 people. “It’s not a house, it’s not an apartment, it’s not a hotel room. But it’s a huge step up from what they had before,” Robledo said.
All bus service was suspended in the greater Seattle area Friday morning due to an ice storm that made travel treacherous. The weather service is forecasting the coldest Christmas in more than two decades in Philadelphia, where school officials shifted classes online Friday. Some surrounding districts canceled classes altogether.
It was so bad in Vermont that Amtrak canceled service for the day, and nonessential state offices were closing early.
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