High winds and freezing temperatures are wreaking havoc across the US with millions without power and thousands stranded during the holiday season. The weather system intensified into a bomb storm on Friday.

The storm has killed at least 24 people, cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, and canceled thousands of flights.

Approximately 60% of the U.S. had received a system winter weather alert or alert, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande on the Mexico border.

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The National Weather Service said total snowfall at Buffalo Niagara International Airport was 43 inches as of 7 a.m. Sunday. The airport will remain closed until Monday morning.

As of 9:45 p.m. ET Saturday, 315,782 homes and businesses in the USA had no power service according to PowerOutage.us.

Some residents of hard-hit Buffalo have had to evacuate their homes to seek warmth. At least seven people have died in the area.

“It wasn’t the Christmas we wanted,” he said. “It’s going to be a Christmas to remember,” said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

The Weather Service forecasts that few regions in the United States, including parts of California, Oregon, Arizona and Florida, are among the few places in the country without freezing wind chills.

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