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In Texas, the country hardest hit by the cold, several million people have been left without power, and NBC News reports that two people died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning when a car was used to generate heat.
There are also reports of homeless people being believed to have been frozen to death and of fatal slipping accidents.
President Joe Biden has promised additional emergency resources to those affected.
At least four tornadoes have occurred, according to weather.com, and in one of them, off the coast of North Carolina, at least three people were killed and ten injured.
According to a website that monitors the power grid, more than three million customers were without power in Texas on Tuesday night local time.
The United States’ southern neighbor, Mexico, has also been hit hard by the low temperatures. In Monterrey, among other things, several homeless people froze to death.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the winter storm is moving northeast toward Canada, “but not until it has brought heavy snow and freezing rain in parts of the Great Lakes and New England.”
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