Louisville, Ky. (AP) – A severe time has moved to the West on Monday as a polar whirl was to grasp the rocky and the plains of the north after Winter storms have struck the east of the United States During the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during the floods of heavy rains.
The National Weather Service warned against the “deadly cold” in Tuesday, with temperatures in northeast Montana planning to lower up to 45 degrees below zero (-42.7 degrees Celsius) with coolings Wind turns up to 60 below (-51 degrees Celsius).
Meteorologists have said that several states would live the 10th and the coldest Polar Vortex event This season. Arctic weather forces combine to push cold air which generally remains near the North Pole in the United States and Europe.
In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear said on Sunday that the death review had reached nine years.
“We have just confirmed another death linked to the Pike county weather, bringing our total loss to 9 people.”
Beshear had declared earlier Sunday than at least 1,000 people blocked by floods were to be saved. President Donald Trump approved Kentucky’s request for a disaster declaration, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate help efforts throughout the state.
In Alabama, the Birmingham meteorological service said that it had confirmed that a Tornado EF-1 had approached in Hale county. The storms there and elsewhere in the state have destroyed or damaged a handful of mobile houses, trees slaughtered and overturned the electric lines.
Portions of Basil Griffin Park in Bowling Green, Ky., Sunday February 16, 2025, sit after strong precipitation beginning early Saturday morning brought almost five inches of rain in the county of Warren and after the snow has covered the region. (Jack Dobbs / Daily News via AP)
A state of emergency was declared for certain parts of the county of Obion, in Tennessee, after the failure of a dike on Saturday, flooding the small community of Rives, which houses around 300 people in the western part of the State . “”
In Atlanta, a person was killed when a large tree fell into a house early on Sunday, according to Atlanta Captain Fire Rescue Scott Powell.
Dangerous wind cooling temperatures as low as 50 degrees lower than zero (minus 45.6) were expected in most of the North Dakota, which remained under a “extreme cold warning” as well as large expanses of Dakota South and Minnesota, according to the weather service.
Serious floods in the appearances
Certain parts of Kentucky and Tennessee received up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain, Bob Oravec, a senior Weather Service forecastist on Sunday, on Sunday.
Cars and buildings immersed in Kentucky water and mud shifts blocked roads in Virginia during the weekend. Flood warnings have extended throughout Tennessee and Arkansas.
The mother and the child were swept away on Saturday evening in the Kentucky community of Bonnieville, said the Coroner of the county of Hart, Tony Roberts. In south-eastern Kentucky, a 73-year-old man was found dead in flood waters in Clay County, said Deputy Director of County Emergency Management, Revelle Berry. There have been a total of four deaths in Hart County, said Beshear.
In Virginia-Western, 13 counties in the South were in the state of emergency for the floods and certain areas were cut on Sunday to the traffic of vehicles. Several volunteer fire services have treated floods in their own buildings while responding to rescue and evacuation calls.
Rocky, Midwest, northeast has struck snowstorms, with polar vortex on the way
The ice and snow made trips en route treacherous in large bands of Michigan, which remained under a winter weather opinion until Monday afternoon. Michigan state police reported 114 accidents on Sunday in the Detroit region since Snow started falling on Saturday.
“Fortunately, most were rotations of a car and there were no serious injury,” said Michigan State police on X.
Colorado authorities have reported that eight people had been killed in deadly vehicle accidents from Valentine’s Day and warned that drivers were cautious because the time made more difficult to drive. The causes of fatal accidents were not immediately known.
Still in Colorado, three state patrol cruisers who had stopped along the roads were struck by other vehicles, one of which a soldier had stopped when the officials were preparing to close a road Because of the ice. In each case, the soldiers came out of their cruisers at the time and were not injured.
Avalanche warnings have been issued for many rocky mountain areas extending from Colorado to the state of Washington, the highest evaluated danger in UTAH.
A part of Detroit is overwhelmed in the water after the blowing of the pipe
Certain parts of a southwest district of Detroit are overwhelmed after a main downturn nearly centenary early on Monday.
The 54 -inch transmission (137 centimeters) was built in 1930 and left several feet of water in the streets, sidewalks and construction sites, according to the Great Lakes Water Authority.
The crews and entrepreneurs were in the region trying to isolate the break. It was not clear which had caused the main bursting, but the temperatures late Sunday until Monday morning were well below zero degrees fahrenheit (minus 17 degrees C).
No injury has been reported. The firefighters used a scale to help a person from the roof of a car in water to the waist tower and a bulldozer was used to sail in a flooded street and help people leave a house, according to the Fire service.
Mayor Mike Duggan says that people affected by the floods can be sheltered in place if they have power and feel safe. Those who want to leave can call 911 and firefighters will help them at home and take them to a temporary refuge.
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Corey Williams in Detroit; Sophia Tareen in Chicago; And Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this report.
