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The utility replaced 56 miles of cable, 50 transformers, 51 poles, replaced or reconnected 8,000 fuses, and 1,550 pole top cross arms. Damage to the infrastructure was estimated at 15 million dollars. [citation needed] In Lancaster, two people died after the snowmobile they were riding on collided with a moving vehicle at an intersection. [14]
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
At least 39 people died in Erie County alone, [20] surpassing the death toll from the Blizzard of 1977, which was previously regarded as the worst snowstorm in the region. [21] The damage estimate by the National Climatic Data Center for the region was $15.5 million. [22] The total death toll for the state was 47.
In Kentucky, three people died; two died as a result of car accidents, while the other person was homeless, which caused them to die to exposure. [69] Missouri had three deaths from vehicular collisions [73] [74] while Nebraska had one. [74] In Wisconsin, one person died from a traffic collision [89] while another died from falling through ice ...
A swath of 12–18+ inches of snow extended from central Pennsylvania through most of southern New England. Locally, up to 44 inches (110 cm) of snow fell in Newark Valley, New York and 45 inches (110 cm) fell in Ludlow, where a new state record may have been broken. In nearby Pennsylvania, the 24-hour snowfall record of 38 inches (97 cm) was ...
Surveillance video captured the horrific moment two people who shot and killed in what ended in a murder-suicide in Pennsylvania after a dispute over snow shoveling.
Nine other people in the South, outside Texas, died as a result of the system or through indirect storm-related incidents. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] According to a BuzzFeed study in May 2021, based on the excess mortalities in Texas in February 2021, the actual death toll of the winter storm may range from 426 to 978 in Texas, with a mean estimate of 702 ...
Nov. 23—The sled dog team that collided with a snowmachine on the Denali Highway last week was part of five-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey's renowned kennel. Two dogs died and the ...