ALSO IN THE NORTH, BUT DUE TO COLD, NOT TO HEAT.
POWER FAILURES AND CASUALTIES: ALSO IN THE US Us inhabitants of greater Buenos Aires city, Argentina, are going through a nightmare of power failures due to overconsumption of electricity amidst and unusually severe and prolongued Christmas heat wave. While on the northern side of the Globe, tens of thousands of people were left without electricity on Christmas day due to severe snowstorms and a number of casualties occurred due to toxic carbon monoxyde coming from generators used to light and heat homes. Image: commons.wikimedia.org POISON GAS KILLS EIGHT LEFT IN DARK AFTER STORM (from an article By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. in the US issue of The New York Times, Dec. 25, 2013, cited by AboveTheFold [AboveTheFold@newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org]; Dec. 26, 2013) With downed power lines forcing hundreds of thousands to spend Christmas without electricity , ice storms that raged through US’s Northeast and the Midwest and Canada continued to have a deadly effect as