The deadly storm, which brought devastating frosts to the south and heavy snow to the northeast, finally began to ease on Monday, and for many residents it was a light at the end of the tunnel. But authorities have reported 30 deaths caused by the storm.
Thousands of Americans are still without power or heat, and temperatures were forecast to drop well below freezing by early Tuesday in areas where the ice storm caused the most damage.
More than 800 power outages were reported across the country on Monday morning, with more than 150 in the Nashville, Tennessee area. About 140 people were still without power in hard-hit Mississippi and another 115 in ice-covered Louisiana.
After a sleepless night in Mississippi, Adrian Ronca-Hohn said he woke up on Monday and saw something that looked "like a war zone."
“It wouldn’t even go 10 seconds without hearing something that sounded like a gunshot,” the 23-year-old football coach said, referring to the falling trees and branches. “You hear a loud crack, then the whistling sound of it falling and then the impact on the ground, where it sounded like it exploded.”
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As temperatures across the South are expected to hit their lowest levels of the week early Tuesday morning, people without power are struggling to survive.
“We have a lot of people without heat, without electricity and without water,” Ronca-Hohn said. “There are a lot of mobile homes here that are not well insulated.”
