At least 27 people have died under weather-related circumstances in recent days as ice storms pound the Pacific Northwest.
Several of those deaths are attributable to hypothermia as arctic temperatures blast the nation, as well as car accidents on frozen roads, according to media reports and local officials across the US.
Portland, Oregon is covered in a quarter-inch of ice, thanks to Winter Storm Indigo, and downed trees have caused property damage, power outages and even fatalities throughout the region. Two adults and one teenager died after a power line fell onto a car in northeast Portland on Wednesday morning following a severe storm in Oregon. Officials also found an uninjured two-year-old on the scene whom they took to the hospital.
Storm Indigo will continue to travel east this week, The Weather Channel reports, bringing even more snowfall from Washington DC to New York later this week. In the meantime, the East Coast will see a return to more typical Winter temperatures following a brutal cold front earlier in the week.
The severe winter storms have unleashed chaos across the country, causing school closures and more than 10,500 flight delays and another 2,476 cancellations on Tuesday.
