Blizzard warnings have been issued across the Central Plains, threatening Christmas Day travelers with delays and dangerous road conditions.
More than 1.1 million people in parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming were under blizzard warnings on Monday afternoon.
“Significant winter storm will ‘let it snow, let it snow, let it snow’ over portions of the Central Plains on Christmas where blizzard conditions and hazardous travel are anticipated; treacherous ice accumulations expected in the eastern Dakotas and northern Minnesota,” the National Weather Service said early Monday.
You should check out !world@lemmy.world. It’s twice the size of this community and focuses on non-US news.
Probably a good suggestion, though I do think it is weird that “news” should default to be US centric unless otherwise specified.
It was like that on reddit too.
Reddit was more directly a US centric site. Lemmy.world doesn’t set out to be US centric but I’m sure the highest user base is people in the US.
You are right and I think it is very much fair to be from the US and them posting and engaging with content they care about. However, the instance is lemmy.world and they could have called the community USnews or something or just written in the sidebar that it is focused on the US. What I find annoying of it all is the american exceptionalism.
If many users are from the US, and many users post news that is relevant to them, then many posts, possibly most may posts will be US centric.
Pretty simple stuff