Icy and snowy climate throughout the Great Plains and Midwest brought on an enormous automotive pileup on Interstate 39 in Illinois yesterday. There had been greater than 100 automobiles and semi vehicles strewn throughout a number of hundred yards of the freeway.

“I-39 from Normal to Minonk will be closed for approx. 12 hours due to multiple crashes involving over 100 vehicles. Together, with our local partners, we are diligently working to ensure motorists are safely escorted from the area to warming centers,” the Illinois State Police tweeted last night.

According to a tweet from the Illinois Department of Transportation, a bit of the I-39 has remained closed off “in both directions north of Normal.” Drivers had been suggested to calculate further journey time for as we speak’s commute.

Other pile ups and accidents caused by the winter storm have been reported in different components of the state. According to Poweroutages.us, the storm has rolled into the Northeast and has shut down energy for greater than 50,000 individuals in Pennsylvania as of Friday morning. Instead of heavy snowfall like out within the Midwest, the waning storm introduced heavy rains and gusty winds to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York final evening.

Early this month, Winter Storm Landon™ made journey (and life normally) depressing for individuals throughout a number of states. More than 200,000 individuals skilled energy outages and thousands of flights throughout the nation had been canceled or delayed. Parts of Interstate 70 in Missouri needed to shut down from the buildup of snow, and harmful circumstances brought on a number of crashes alongside Interstate 55 in Illinois.

The latest storms are simply two examples of how climate change-fueled excessive climate may cause cascading and harmful disruptions. Instead of regular snowfall all through the winter season, we’re now extra more likely to see record-breaking snowfall occasions that our transit systems and infrastructure aren’t ready for.

This week’s storm has canceled huge numbers of flights and put hundreds of thousands of Americans beneath climate advisory. The storm is dropping some energy because it strikes over into the Northeast, but that doesn’t imply it’s over: Areas throughout the tristate space are going to see winds of greater than 30 miles per hour this weekend.