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A student from Iowa found dead in front of a university building is among the frost victims.
Hospitals treat patients reporting frostbite as life across the country.
The most terrible explosions could still happen Thursday. Ninety million people – a third of the United States – experienced temperatures less than or equal to -17 ° F.
Some 250 million Americans in total experienced the conditions of the "polar vortex" "But southern states such as Florida have escaped the brutal cold.
How did the deaths occur?
- Gerald Belz, student at the University of Iowa, 18 years old. was found unconscious behind a campus building before dawn on Wednesday and died later in the hospital. Authorities say weather is key
- A 70-year-old Michigan man was found dead near his home in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday. Officials said that he was "badly dressed for the time that he was doing"
- Another Michigan man was also found dead from cold in his neighborhood
- Tuesday, a man of 55 years old died of cold in a garage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, having apparently "collapsed after shoveling snow," according to a medical examiner
- A 82-year-old man died of hypothermia at the 39, outside his home in Beijing, Illinois
- mortally hit by a snow plow near Chicago on Monday. The driver has since been put on paid leave while waiting for an investigation, according to WGN9 News
- In North Indiana, a young couple died as a result of a collision on icy roads
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New York City under snow and cold cold
What are the forecasts?
Thursday, the third city in the United States, Chicago, broke its 1985 record of -32 ° C, according to meteorologists.
On Thursday, the cold is heading east, causing sub-zero temperatures in northeastern cities such as Boston.
The leeward regions of the Great Lakes are expected to be buried in the night of Thursday through Tuesday by lakes with intense lacustrine snow.
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The region near Buffalo, New York State, is expected to experience the heaviest snowfall. The snow could fall at a rate of 7 cm to 12 cm per hour
It is expected that the freezing cold will fall Friday
Taking into account the wind chill, temperatures in the Midwest and Great Lakes have come closer to -40 ° C and -53 ° C, which is enough to cause frostbite in less than five minutes.
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How Cold Is It?
In Minnesota , the natural gas company Xcel Energy has asked residents to reduce the number of thermostats in their home to 17 ° C in order to help the company cope with the heating demand.
Over 20 dozen thermostats Water pipes freeze this week. A spokesman for the city told the Associated Press that the pipes had been installed up to 1.8 m below the frost line, but that the ground was frozen and temperatures were so low .
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