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Photos and videos show Hoak's Lakeshore Restaurant in Hamburg, encased in giant icicles stretching several feet long, covering windows, doors, and balconies

Anndel Taylor's car stranded in the snow triggered by a blizzard on Friday afternoon after driving back from work.

An arctic deep freeze that has led to a historic winter storm in the US has killed at least 60 people, an NBC News tally shows. The chills were spread as far as the Mexican border. The Buffalo region in New York state on the edge of Lake Erie near the Canadian border, was hardest hit.

The winter storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and emergency crews were scrambling to rescue stranded residents.

A brutal winter storm brought Christmas Day danger and misery to millions of Americans Sunday as intense snow and frigid cold gripped parts of the eastern United States, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 31.

The storm hit Buffalo in the eastern state of New York hardest on Christmas Day, causing power outages and trapping people inside their cars.

A winter storm that has killed at least 25 people in western New York was dubbed the "blizzard of the century" Monday by the state's governor.

Other headlines: Christian missionaries attacked in Uttarakhand on allegations of forced conversions, and a fierce winter storm has left 16 dead in the US.

In New York, the forecasters have called it a "once-in-a-generation storm" with wind gusts of more than 105 kilometres per hour.

An arctic blast is bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and intense wind across much of the US this week.