Nearly 600,000 customers were without power on the evening of Jan. 26 after a widespread, long-lasting winter storm spread ice and snow across the country, as tens of millions of people were under some form of cold weather warning or advisory.
A map on tracking website PowerOutage.us shows that nearly 600,000 people were without power in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The worst-affected state as of the evening of Jan. 26 was Tennessee, which had nearly 200,000 outages, while Mississippi had more than 140,000 and Louisiana more than 100,000.
