Officials have confirmed that 17 people have died due to exposure, icy car crashes and other effects as a devastating winter storm battered the US, Canada, and Mexico today.
Among them was a utility worker has died while trying to restore power in southeastern Ohio, and people in Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin also died with much of the US in the grip of a massive winter storm. The storm has continued to envelop much of the US, bringing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold that created mayhem for people travelling for the Christmas holiday.
It downed power lines, littered roads with piles of cars in fatal accidents and led to mass flight cancellations. The storm was nearly unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.
