Heavy snow and freezing cold made Christmas Day miserable for millions of Americans.
Buffalo, the second largest city in New York, is currently in a critical situation where a snowstorm has hit the city.
Eight feet of snow falls in Buffalo and there are power outages. In these situations, rescue workers cannot reach the most affected areas.
Residents are still in an "extremely life-threatening situation". He warned people to stay indoors.
More than 200,000 people in several eastern states celebrated Christmas without power, and many people's holiday travel plans were also thrown into disarray.
The storm closed the country's major highways and canceled thousands of flights days before Christmas.
Thirty-one deaths have been confirmed in nine states, including four in Colorado and 12 in New York.
Rescuers recovered bodies from vehicles and avalanches in the snow-covered Buffalo area, officials said. The city's international airport will remain closed until Tuesday and driving restrictions will remain in place.
The governor of New York, Cathy Hochol, said that the blizzard of 2022 will be talked about not only today, but also for generations to come. This storm surpassed the historic storm of 1977 in intensity.
More than 2,400 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday due to the storm, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.com.
In addition, around 3,500 flights were canceled on Saturday and 6,000 flights on Friday. Airports such as Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit and New York were closed on Christmas Day.
Around 1.7 million people were without power on Saturday, according to the PowerOutage.US Project, which reports on the electricity situation in the United States.
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