Wind Chill
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| Initial release | United Kingdom |
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| Directors | Gregory Jacobs |
| Budget | 6 million USD (2007) |
| Composers | Clint Mansell |
| Box office | 285,060 USD |
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| ID | 2413712 |
About Wind Chill
Just before their university campus goes quiet for the winter break, a young woman (Emily Blunt) asks a classmate (Ashton Holmes) for a lift home. The two students set off on their trip and begin to get to know each other. But, when a reckless motorist drives them off the road, they find themselves stranded in the snow on a remote highway. As the night grows colder, the two are confronted by a horde of menacing apparitions -- and struggle to escape with their lives. … MORE
Winter storm: North America hit by blizzards and heat wave
... Record low temperatures in the US Powerful wind gusts potentially reaching 50mph (80km/h) and a Wind Chill as low as -50F in some parts are predicted...
US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
... " Arctic weather conditions, including Wind Chill, snow, and limited daylight, are a factor in this operation, and personnel will adjust recovery operations to maintain safety, " the military said...
Winter storm's icy blast hits 200 million in US
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Ice soldiers mark Russia's very patriotic Christmas
... Add in the Wind Chill factor and it s -33C...
Is North America's Arctic vulnerable to Russia?
... " I ve operated in -78 degrees centigrade (-108F) with Wind Chill...
In Pictures: US cities clear-up after big-freeze
... Meanwhile, in Maine officials issued Wind Chill warnings and temperatures remained low, and in Rhode Island an emergency road travel ban was lifted overnight...
US snowstorms: California and other western states battered
... Meanwhile, in Montana, the NWS warned that " dangerously cold Wind Chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as five minutes"...
Tourists in sneakers rescued, in Ben Nevis blizzard
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Winter storm's icy blast hits 200 million in US
Some 200 million Americans are under a weather advisory as a massive Winter Storm tightens its icy grip on the country ahead of The Holiday weekend.
More Than 1. 5 million people lost power and thousands of flights were cancelled on Friday.
So Far at least 12 deaths linked to The Storm have been confirmed across the country.
A bomb cyclone, when atmospheric pressure plummets, brought blizzard-like conditions to the Great Lakes .
In Canada, Ontario and Quebec were bearing the brunt of The Storm , which is causing power cuts for hundreds of thousands of households.
In the US, the vast storm spans 2,000 miles (3,200km) from Texas to Maine, and The National Weather Service (NWS) said its Friday map " depicts one of The Greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever".
Temperatures in Elk Park , Montana, dropped to -50F (-45C).
Heavy snowfall was forecast in areas of Pennsylvania and Michigan. Buffalo, New York , was expecting at least 35in (89cm).
Even the usually milder southern states of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Georgia were subject to hard-freeze warnings.
A Number of The Storm -related fatalities have involved road traffic accidents, including a 50-car pile-up in Ohio that left at least one person dead.
More Than 8,000 flights were cancelled on Friday, reported tracking site FlightAware, wreaking yet more travel chaos as travellers battle to make it home for Christmas.
The latest figure for customers without electricity across the US by Friday Evening was 1. 2 million, according to PowerOutage. us.
Utilities throughout the Tennessee Valley were implementing Rolling Blackouts to save power.
The cold has matched decades-old temperature records across the US:
New York , West Virginia , Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Oklahoma have declared states of emergency, while Wisconsin declared an " energy emergency".
In South Dakota , Native American Tribe members were reportedly burning clothes for warmth after running out of fuel and being trapped by massive snow drifts.
" We're fighting a losing battle, " says Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out told The Bbc . He Said it is unclear how many of The Tribe 's 46,000 members are trapped across the 4,200 sq mile region.
Machinery is failing as Diesel Fuel turns to gel in the freezing cold. Some rescuers are using horses and sleds, or walking.
Anna Halverson, who represents The Pass Creek District on the Pine Ridge Reservation, told the: " We're in a really extreme emergency down here. "
" We have drifts as high as some houses that stretch 60, 70 yards at a time. "
She Said one family had run out of infant formula, food and fuel and spent four days trapped inside before walking eight miles to get help because their baby was starving.
" I've seen across the reservation some members were burning clothes in their wood stove because they couldn't get access to wood, " Ms Halverson said.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has activated The State 's National Guard to haul firewood from a nearby national forest to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Oglala Sioux Tribe .
Source of news: bbc.com
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