Tennessee leads the nation in power outages amid Winter Storm Fern’s devastation, a system that has crippled electric, transportation and emergency communications infrastructure in Middle Tennessee especially.
The next highest states are Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, each of which reportedly has 100,000-plus customers without power. Altogether, there are more than 1 million customers across the U.S. to lose power.
Middle Tennessee is the state’s epicenter of the devastation caused by this weekend’s winter storm, though it’s devastated parts of electric, roadway and emergency communications systems across the Volunteer State…