Cold, dark nights ahead in wake of deadly ice storm

More than a million households remain without power after snow and ice slammed the country from Texas to Maine, disrupting hundreds of flights and forcing Kentucky state troopers to use four-wheelers to find stranded residents.

…There were about 20,000 households without power in Oklahoma as of Thursday morning. The numbers soared into the hundreds of thousands from northern Arkansas through Kentucky, where as much as 1 to 2 inches of ice burdened trees and power lines

…More than a half-million customers in Kentucky remained in the dark. Many of the people had no heat and no working phone service to call for help.

“We have places across the state where even state police can’t get their cruisers working and they’re out in their own four-wheel-drive vehicles,” Jude said.

It could take a week or more for utility operators in Kentucky and Arkansas to restore power to everyone.

USA Today