Una poderosa tormenta invernal con fuertes nevadas y vientos azotó la costa este de Estados este sábado, provocando caos en el transporte y cortes de luz en una región donde residen unos 70 millones de personas.

With multiple warning warnings in force, cities like New York and Boston were the most affected by the storm, that the National Meteorological Service (NWS) confirmed on Saturday that it had intensified until it became a "bomb cyclone", which is characterized by the explosive power of the rapid falls of atmospheric pressure.

The coastal areas are expected to receive more than 30 centimeters of snow at the end of the day, and up to 90 cm in Massachusetts areas, where more than 119 were reported.000 homes without electricity.

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Frost alerts even in Florida (southeast) were issued, where the NWS even warned about the risk of falling iguanas - a kind of lizard that can weigh up to nine kilos - of the trees because they are temporarily frozen.

Salt and Quitanieves Spiring Machines work in the streets of New York, where on Saturday morning about 10 centimeters of snow accumulated.

The mayor of this city, Eric Adams, requested through Twitter to citizens stay at home and published videos of their tours of different districts throughout the day.

In Times Square, the neon lights of the posters are blurred through the snow..

But the cold temperatures did not intimidate Robert Burck, a street artist known as the "naked cowboy".Dress only with underwear, hat and cowboy boots, he walked through the tourist point playing his guitar.

"It's fantastic," Gonzalo Vázquez, one of the few tourists walking around told AFP."It's like skiing surrounded by lights and LED screens".

- "Stay at home" - the governments of the states of New York and New Jersey declared the state of emergency and the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, decreed emergency by snow.

"It's going to get quite ugly," Wu said in a television interview this Saturday."It will be a historical storm," he said.

Massachusetts residents rushed on Friday to buy groceries, as well as products to melt the ice and snow with the intention of helping to keep the sidewalks and tickets of their houses clear.

On Saturday morning, Public Works of Boston reported that 500 quitanies were already working on the streets of the city.

The storm will cause extremely cold temperatures with dangerous wind gusts between Saturday night and Sunday morning, said the weather service.

"Go home again tonight, stay at home during the weekend, avoid any unnecessary trip," said New York Governor Kathy Hochul, in a statement, pointing out that there would be especially strong snowfall in Long Island, New Yorkand the low zone of the Hudson Valley.

He also urged people who had to travel to fill the gas tanks of their cars and carry supplies such as ice scrapers, blankets and water in their vehicles.

Some 3,500 flights, both internal and international, were canceled on Saturday in the United States, according to the FlightAware flight tracker.Some 1,000 flights that would also have to take off on Sunday have also been suspended.

Cancellations on Friday added more than 1.450.

The storm arrives after another similar one that covered a large part of East of North America, from Georgia to Canada, leaving many homes without light and disturbing thousands of air connections.