Two weeks of winter storms in the United States have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix.

• The extreme weather is being blamed for at least 55 deaths in the US over the past two weeks
• Schools and roads have been closed, air traffic has been disturbed and thousands remain without power
• The freezing temperatures are expected to ease next week in most parts of the country

The rain, snow, wind and bitterly cold temperatures have been blamed for at least 55 deaths.

Schools and roads have closed, and air traffic has been snarled.

Heavier-than-forecast snow fell in the eastern cities of New York, Baltimore and Washington, DC on Friday.

Michigan City in the state of Indiana received 43 centimetres of "lake-effect snow", a phenomenon in which cold air moves across the open waters of the Great Lakes and forms a snow-producing band.

But the biggest problems remained in places hit hard by storms earlier in the week.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-21/winter-storms-kill-dozens-in-united-states/103373040

On the same day the temperature reached -21 degrees Celsius outside, Kazimir Belev's heating stopped working.

It's been patchy in the past, but this time, things are different.

It's not just his apartment or his building that's affected.

"It turned out that the problem is much bigger than in previous cases," the 31-year-old said. 

"Two large districts of the city with a population of over a million people were left without heating."

Kazimir lives in Novosibirsk, in southern Russia.

But if the growing chorus of complaints on social media is anything to go by, infrastructure issues are affecting almost every corner of the country.

As temperatures plunge, Russia's aging patchwork of central heating systems is a major concern.

In some cases, entire cities rely on one Soviet-era boiler plant to stay warm.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-21/freezing-russians-make-plea-to-vladimir-putin-after-heating-fail/103323062

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