Disaster images in the US of stormy winds and deadly storms

Disaster images in their northwestern states after stormy winds and powerful ones resulted, yesterday Wednesday (20.11.2024) in losing their lives two women and several people injured. In fact, the second “wave” of bad weather is expected today (21.11.2024) to hit the northwest US today, at a time when hundreds of thousands of people remain without electricity from yesterday’s torrential storms and snowfalls. The stormy winds, which swept the country at first stage, cut off along the southwest Washington and Oregon area at noon on Wednesday local time. REUTERS/David Ryder However, images of houses and cars destroyed by trees uprooted in Washington flooded social media. Two women died after falling trees near Seattle and people were injured. REUTERS/David Ryder About 350,000 homes and businesses remain immersed in darkness in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, a number less than 600,000 previously recorded. The storm and torrential rains also resulted in damage to the electricity system in British Columbia Province, on the Canadian Pacific coast and left no electricity around 225,000 consumers on Tuesday night, according to BC Hydro power supply company. NOAA/Handout REUTERS By Wednesday evening, local time, about 64,000 consumers, mostly on Vancouver Island, had no electricity. About 279 mm of rain already fell yesterday and during Wednesday night to Thursday in Northern California, while at higher altitudes there were also snowfalls, Rich Otto, a meteorologist of the American Meteorological Service (NWS) Forecast Center said. REUTERS/David Ryder According to him, the storm is over North Carolina and the rain height is expected to reach 250 mm. Wind gusts of 105 km per hour are expected tonight and the risk of life-threatening flooding and landslides of mud and rocks remains high throughout the region, warned NWS. Keith Higgins via REUTERS Rainfalls will continue over North Carolina in the following days, Otto explained and extreme weather phenomena will not fade until Saturday.