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Massive winter storm sweeps across US, high power outages & gas demand to pose frigid challenges for Iowa caucuses..
A widespread winter storm, traversing the eastern half of the United States on Tuesday has resulted in power outages affecting approximately 811,000 homes and businesses across 12 states..
Wintery weather forced Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy to cancel campaign events in Iowa one week before the caucuses, the first Republican Party primary contest of the 2024 presidential election..
Financial firm LSEG predicts a record gas demand, used for heating nearly half the homes in the country, reaching 170.0 billion cubic feet per day on Jan. 15 and 173.7 billion cubic feet per day on Jan. 16..
Similarly, a winter storm named Elliott in December 2022 had nearly caused the collapse of power and natural gas systems in parts of the eastern US..
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