{"id":392397,"date":"2026-01-27T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:29:09","slug":"us-winter-storm-leaves-deaths-power-outages-and-flight-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392397\/","title":{"rendered":"US winter storm leaves deaths, power outages and flight delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 200,000 people had lost power in Tennessee as of Monday afternoon. The city experienced a deep freeze that plunged residents into cold and darkness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are many trees down and power lines blocking the roads.&#8221; Joy Flores, vice president of the Nashville Rescue Mission homeless shelter, told the BBC. Her centre was taking calls from residents who had lost power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The roads were icy and impossible to navigate, Flores said, and own her home had &#8220;no heating, no internet, and no coffee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In New York City, a total of eight people had died between Friday and Monday morning, according to city officials, as temperatures plummeted into the single digits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York City&#8217;s Central Park registered 11.4 inches of snow as of Monday morning, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Texas, a teenage girl died and another was in critical condition due to a sledding accident, the Frisco Police Department announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In North Carolina, a man was found dead on the side of a highway in Buncombe County and authorities are investigating whether his death was weather-related. And Louisiana&#8217;s department of health said that two people had died due to hypothermia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 200,000 people had lost power in Tennessee as of Monday afternoon. The city experienced a deep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-392397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}