A “once in a decade” bomb cyclone is sweeping through the northwest United States and parts of Canada early Wednesday –– leaving at least one person dead and hundreds of thousands without power across Washington state,

Hundreds of thousands of people are in the dark thanks to high winds from the bomb cyclone hitting Western Washington Tuesday night.

A major storm was sweeping across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages and downed trees that killed at least one person