Terrific Snow Storm in the US Already Causing Fatalities

Severe snow storm that brought the snow with a height of more than 60 cm and high winds move toward the US East Coast. More than 50 million people in a dozen states have been warned to remain in their homes as the storm then moved north. US capital, Washington, could experience snow with a height of 76 cm which was a record at the time the storm passes, Sunday (01/23/2016) later.

Eight people have died in traffic accidents related to the snowstorm, and six states have declared a state of emergency, while thousands of flights have been canceled. Friday afternoon, when the first snow in Washington. The US National Weather Service said the storm could be the worst in the history of the city. Residents of the capital and surrounding areas were told that the snow can reach heights exceeding the previous record, 71 cm, while Washington hit by snow for two days, in 1922.

Catholics in Washington, Baltimore, and Delaware has received notification from the officers of the church, that they do not have to perform Mass on Sunday because the weather was too bad. Various grocery markets have run out of food supplies, and empty shelves after residents rushed to buy up the basic needs before the first snow fall, on Friday (22/1).

Sharon BREWINGTON, a Baltimore resident said, when the blizzard of 2010, she and her son had to spend the days just with noodles and drinking water.

"I do not want it to happen again," he said of why he bought and stockpile food.

About this time a snow storm

• A state of emergency was announced in the State of Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
• Blizzard will occur in Arkansas through Tennessee and Kentucky, and New York on the east coast.
• US government offices shut since Friday afternoon.
• President Barack Obama remains in the White House. 
• Eight people died in a car crash in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and elsewhere.
• Capitol transport network, which is the second busiest in the US, will be closed all weekend.
• Singer Garth Brooks cancel two concerts in Baltimore, when all tickets have been sold.
• Schools shut since Friday (01/22).