Situation in US South grows more dire after days of ice, frigid...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Troopers in Tennessee are fanning out for welfare checks on those who haven´t been heard from in days.
49% : (AP Photo/George Walker IV) A tree blocks the road days after an ice storm in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026.
45% : Erik Lipsett in Benton County, Mississippi, spent the last several days scooping ice from the front yard so he can melt it to flush down his toilets.
43% : Hal Ferrell, mayor of Batesville, said Wednesday that no one in the city has power and, with roads still slippery with ice, it´s too soon to begin recovery efforts.
38% : The situation is reaching a breaking point for the elderly and those with medical conditions who lack electricity, some of whom are trapped by roads made impassable by ice and fallen trees.
37% : Mississippi dispatched 135 snowplows and National Guard troops equipped with wreckers to sections of Interstates 55 and 22 gridlocked by vehicles abandoned in the state´s ice-stricken northern region.

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