Billion dollar cold wave disaster
According to NOAA a historic cold wave and winter storm impacted many northwest, central and eastern states. Temperature departures exceeding 40.0 degrees F (22.2 degrees C) below normal occurred from Nebraska southward to Texas. The cold arctic air caused widespread power outages in Texas, as well as other southern states, with multiple days of sustained below-freezing temperatures. At the peak of the outage, nearly 10 million people were without power. Additional impacts were frozen water pipes, which burst upon thawing causing water damage to buildings. These extreme conditions also caused or contributed to the deaths of more than 125 people in Texas alone, and this number is expected to increase further, after additional reporting. There were also snow and ice impacts across numerous states including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.
The total loss of this weather disaster
Damage costs are not yet certain for this events but already exceed $10.0 billion making it the most costly U.S. winter storm/coldwave on record surpassing the March 1993 ‘Storm of the Century’.
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