Kennesaw, Georgia– like Deadly storm That brought crippling ice to the south and deep snow to the northeast that finally began pouring out to sea on Monday, it represented the light at the end of the tunnel for some.
But thousands of Americans are still without power or heat, and temperatures are expected to drop below freezing by early Tuesday in areas where the ice storm did its worst damage.
More than 800,000 power outages were reported across the country Monday morning, more than 150,000 of them in the Nashville, Tennessee, area, according to Reuters. poweroutage.com. About 140,000 people remained without electricity in hard-hit Mississippi, and another 115,000 in icy Louisiana.
After a sleepless night in Iuka, Mississippi, Adrian Ronca-Hohn said he woke up Monday to what looked “like a war zone.”
“We couldn’t go 10 seconds without hearing what sounded like a gunshot,” the 23-year-old soccer coach said of falling trees and branches. “You’d hear a pop, a loud pop, and you’d hear the whistle of it falling, and then it would hit the ground and kind of explode.”
With temperatures across the South expected to reach their coldest this week early Tuesday morning, people without power are trying to survive.
“We have a lot of people without heat, without electricity, without water,” Ronca-Hon said. “We have a lot of mobile homes here, and they’re not well insulated.”
Here’s a look at the storm by the numbers.
An inch of snow (2.5 cm) was recorded in multiple communities across Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alabama and South Carolina.
Fahrenheit (minus 17) is expected early Tuesday morning in Tennessee’s capital, where thousands remain without power.
Inches of sleet (17 cm) fell at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to preliminary totals.
City officials said the number of days it could take to restore power in Allen County, Kentucky. Other societies have estimated similar time frames. In New Albany, Mississippi, city utilities warned Sunday that restoring power to all of their customers “will take at least a week and possibly longer depending on conditions.”
Inches of snow (56.4 cm) fell during the storm in Sterling, Massachusetts. This number is a preliminary figure as of Monday morning.
The number of places in Nashville where people without electricity can go to keep warm and charge their phones, including fire and police stations.
The temperature hit 10 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) inside Marshall Ramsey’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, Monday morning after a power outage. Ramsey, a longtime editorial cartoonist who now teaches at the University of Mississippi, said the weekend’s ice storm “was like a satanic symphony with trees snapping, transformers flying, and thunder rolling.”
Number of dogs Saved from rural property In the Tupelo, Mississippi area, just before an ice storm by Paws of War. The New York-based nonprofit rescues animals and places them with veterans and first responders.
The number of customers without power in Mississippi Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.com.
A number of Nashville Electric Service customers were without power in the Nashville area Monday afternoon, according to the company.
The number of customers without power in Tennessee Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.com.
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Associated Press writers Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Jeff Amy in Atlanta. Sophie Bates in Jackson, Mississippi, and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Christine M. Hall in Nashville; Jake Offenhartz in New York and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut.