{"id":485791,"date":"2026-02-23T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485791\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:17:07","slug":"twenty-two-inches-of-snow-falls-in-parts-of-us-east-coast-as-major-winter-storm-hits-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485791\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-two inches of snow falls in parts of US east coast as major winter storm hits &#8211; latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re facing an absolute mess&#8217;: Electricity providers battle thousands of outagespublished at 12:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Power outages are affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the north-east US right now, according to the live tracker Power Outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes 122,000 customers in New Jersey, 99,000 in Massachusetts and 71,000 in Delaware, as of 07:00 EST (12:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One New Jersey-based electrics company, Atlantic City Electric, says it is &#8220;prepared to respond to any issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Delaware Electric Coop says it&#8217;s &#8220;facing an absolute mess&#8221; due to &#8220;countless trees, powerlines and utility poles&#8221; being struck down by the snow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll be calling on our friends from neighbouring mid-Atlantic cooperatives to help us get the lights back &#8211; a process we think will take days,&#8221; it says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re facing an absolute mess&#8217;: Electricity providers battle thousands of outagespublished at 12:19 GMT 12:19 GMT Power outages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-485791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}