Hundreds of thousands of residents across Mississippi and Tennessee remain without power following a severe winter storm that blanketed the region in ice and plunged temperatures into the teens.
The storm, part of the larger Winter Storm Fern, delivered freezing rain, downed trees and power lines, and left roads impassable just as Arctic air settled over the South.
As of Tuesday morning, more than 400,000 customers in the region were without electricity, according to utility reports and tracking site PowerOutage.us…