Lawmakers and officials in Southern states are still trying to figure out what additional resources they may have to request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency — and if they could reliably get it — following this weekend’s heavy snow and ice storms.
More than 600,000 people experienced power outages across the country, with Southern states taking the brunt of the storm. Tennessee experienced more than 200,000 power outages as of Monday afternoon, the most of any state, while Mississippi had more than 140,000 outages and Louisiana had just over 110,000.
As the storm approached, President Donald Trump approved emergency declarations for 12 states, including Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky and Virginia…