https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47088684
Summary: Although the temperature increased drastically this weekend, the death toll of the Midwest polar vortex increased to 21 on Thursday and Friday. Over ninety million people saw temperatures significantly below 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and approximately 250 million Americans directly or indirectly experienced the polar vortex. Frostbite has been nipping anyone who had been outside for over 20 minutes, and homeless people suffered on its behalf. In Chicago, warm stations were set up around the city to prevent the homeless from freezing to death. Many roads became very dangerous, and some train tracks froze over, preventing trains from traveling. Thankfully, over the weekend the temperature spiked to a crazy high level, and the cold is currently being blown away.
Analysis: I can't even imagine having to live in such extreme weather conditions like those, it must have been a nightmare, especially for the homeless, who suffered much more than those with a home most likely did. I had been hearing about the nearly deadly polar vortex all week before writing this blog, and reading about the grisly effects was almost surreal. This article was written by the writing staff at BBC (the names weren't listed), and this article was written to give the reader an inside view as to the day-to-day life within the dangerous snowstorm infecting the United States Midwest. The polar vortex of late January 2019 can be related to the early 2014 polar vortex that froze both eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.
Wow! That is hard to imagine living in the cold and I hope that people are able to recover from the frostbite.
ReplyDeleteWow, I couldn’t even imagine living up north in those weather conditions; even the 50 degree weather is too cold for me. I found myself laughing at the silly photos people were taking of their frozen hair and eyelashes, but never really thought about how it could be greatly affecting so many people’s health, like the homeless.
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I appreciate the city taking to account the lives of homeless people. I feel like the town I live in would just let them freeze. It's shameful the way the homeless are treated over here.
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