A train accident and flight cancellations…a snowstorm paralyzes transportation in America
Transportation traffic is experiencing disruptions in United States Sunday, where it swept A strong snowstorm in the south of the country, bringing with it Sub-zero temperatures to areas that are not accustomed to such severe frost.
This new cold wave comes a few days after a winter storm struck large parts of the United States, killing more than 100 people, leaving snow and ice in many areas.
Heavy snow fell on Saturday morning in North Carolina and neighboring states, and the authorities urged residents to stay in their homes and not go out on the roads, and warned that The storm threatens buildings on the coastal strip.
The entire states of North and South Carolina and parts of Georgia, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky were placed in a state of warning.
Flight cancellations
In North Carolina, traffic police recorded about 750 accidents on Saturday, and snowfalls reached 37 centimeters in some areas of the state, 32 centimeters in Virginia and more than 23 centimeters in Tennessee.
In the city of Cape Carteret in North Carolina, strong winds pushed the snow horizontally as it fell, and the National Weather Service warned of the danger of movement. "Which may cause death, especially if you stop moving"
In Gastonia, in the same state, scenes showed a train traveling at high speed and hitting a semi-trailer parked on the tracks, crushing it, without causing any casualties.
The storm caused the cancellation of more than 1,800 flights on Saturday and Sunday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, which is one of the large terminals for flights. "American Airlines"According to the website "Flight Aware"A team of 300 personnel was assigned to remove snow from the runways and roads, according to what the airport administration announced on Saturday.
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