With many still struggling to stay warm during this deadly winter storm, many Nashvillians are drawing comparisons to the historic 1994 storm that left many without power for weeks on end.
“I ain’t never seen nothing like this since about ’94. Didn’t have no lights for about eight days,” said Marcellus Bostaack, of North Nashville. On a recent morning, he was on his way to check on his 90-year-old uncle; both of them had lost power during this storm as well.
This go around, nearly half of Nashville Electric Service’s customer base lost power on Sunday afternoon. The company tracked a record 230,000 simultaneous outages, exceeding the previous high set in 2020, and tens of thousands are at risk of having no electricity for a week or more…