Thousands remain without power after storm in US
As a deadly storm that brought crippling ice to the South and deep snow to the Northeast finally began to swirl out to sea on Monday, it represented light at the end of the tunnel for some. But thousands of Americans were still without power or heat, and temperatures were forecast to plunge well below freezing by early on Tuesday in areas where the ice storm did its worst damage.
More than 800,000 power outages were reported nationwide Monday morning, with more than 150,000 of them in the Nashville, Tennessee, area, according to poweroutage.Com. About 140,000 remained without power in hard-hit Mississippi, and 115,000 more in icy Louisiana. After a sleepless night in Iuka, Mississippi, Adrian Ronca-Hohn said he awoke 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 football coach said of falling trees and branches. “You’d hear a pop, a hard pop, and you’d hear the whistle of it falling, and then it would crash to the ground and just kind of explode.”
As temperatures across the South are 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 power and without water,” Ronca-Hohn said. We have a lot of mobile homes down here that aren’t very well-insulated.”
