More than 40 people have died in a huge winter storm in the US. “I woke up on Sunday morning to my power being out and the sound of ice-covered trees cracking and branches falling. “I have not left my apartment since Friday night, and with all the fallen trees and branches and the ice, it is impossible to drive anywhere,” she says. Michigan winters are something to take pretty seriously, but what’s been difficult with this winter is that it’s just been one storm after another. ‘I skidded right into a snow drift’View image in fullscreen There was 27in of snow, says GH Hovagimyan.