White County is currently facing its “worst natural disaster” after a severe ice storm devastated the local power grid. The storm brought down dozens of trees and power lines, leaving 8,200 households, roughly one-third of the county, without electricity for over 24 hours.
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Pretty sure the ice storm of 74 might be a runner up.
Run yall. Run For your lives 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
😂 I mean I hate it for them, but multiple counties in Mississippi were 100% out of power.
Middle Ga here, we had no power for 15 days during Helene at my home. Wasn’t the end of the world, I was out on my mini excavator clearing roads by 7:00 am, first help I saw was about 10:00am when about 6 local guys with chainsaws came up. And that was on a State highway, of course later the local emergency management people gave all the credit to Leo and power company’s. Be prepared people.
Locally….the farm boys were ON IT. Everyone with a chain saw showed up to clear the road for the power trucks. I hope the best for them. It was only temporary. (Helene it was a week)
Just got power back on Jan 28 at 7:00pm still no water thank you to all the line men working so hard in this brutal weather here live off Duncan Bridge Rd.
No. The worst disaster in history was you voted Trump the pedophile.
FEMA should be … wait… oh yeah… never mind.
This massive winter storm was GEO ENGINEERED and the Pentagon is blame
The poles on the right side of the road, which are partially buried, have been sliced down. Look at how clean those "break" lines are. Why would they needed to be cut down like that, I wonder.
Wow, we've become so weak.
BIDENS DID THIS! THE DEMS MADE THE STORM!!. PROTECT YOUR PETS, OR THEY WILL BE EATEN!! MAGA/FOX!!
Oh now this just normal weather it happens all the time ain't got nothing to do with global warming,you may not believe in global warming but your insurance company does oh yeah they pay for it and then we pay them more.Some locations don't offer ins. now.
Making a big deal out of nothing, climate scares to worry the people over nothing, imagine how many times this has happened over the last 500,000 years? Build infrastructure to handle weather events and manage vegetation……problem solved
Seriously???
Reporter is a city girl. Duncan Bridge Rd. is a road, not a street. Words matter.
fake news again , Worse Natural disaster would be a fire wiping out a city or 1000's of citizens dying from a disaster but power outage isn't the worse natural disaster folks .
God is not finished
This is nothing
Do yall remember the storm of ‘93?
The reason the power outages are exacerbated is completely due to the lack of tree trimming by the electric company in their right-of-way. When I go out to work on someone's electric line, they have a choice: cutting the tree back well and having reliable electric or keeping the tree as it is and not having reliable electric and possibly damaging property down the road.
In nebraska we refer to that as "winter""
Expect it's Trump's fault lol
Fire wood.
I hope Scorpion Hollow is doing ok. You know it's bad when the national guard is called in.
I bet she could have said all that and sat inside a running car with heater on.