The day before, more than 200,000 families were affected by the disruptions in California and Nevada alone, where bad weather caused flooding in cities and counties.
According to updated data, 84,242 customers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Oregon are still groping in the dark. (Photo: PL)
More than 84,000 homes in five states across the Union are without power today due to the onslaught of the severe winter storm that affected most of the country.
According to data updated this Monday morning from the Poweroutage Monitor, 84,242 customers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Oregon are still groping in the dark.
The day before, more than 200,000 families were affected by the disruptions in California and Nevada alone, where bad weather caused flooding in cities and counties.
More than five inches of rain fell on San Francisco Bay, California, on Saturday, marking the second wettest day on record in the region.
While Oakland recorded about 10 inches of rainfall on the day itself, a number that broke the record set in 1982.
The powerful weather phenomenon threatens destructive winds and tornadoes from Houston, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana through noon Monday.
Thunderstorms will develop before a cold front moves across southeast Texas overnight through Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service forecast.
At least 16 states are under winter and/or wind patrols, and a winter storm is expected to bring near-blizzard conditions to the upper Midwest in the next few hours.
It had been decades since Americans had been this cold or experienced a powerful winter storm of the bomb cyclone (bomb cyclone or explosive cyclogenesis) category that struck the United States beginning over the Christmas holiday and killed about 65 people.
