00:00Trees are glazed in ice. Temperatures are perilously cold.
00:05And roads impassable here in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:10They are used to winter storms, but that they have never seen anything like this.
00:15And I've been snowed in up there for like almost three weeks.
00:20Without being able to get up and down my driveway because of the snow.
00:24And I'm used to that.
00:25I prepare for that.
00:26But this was unprecedented.
00:29This is...
00:30It's just a huge ice storm.
00:32According to forecasters, it is one of the worst...
00:35From New Mexico to Maine, nearly half of all...
00:40U.S. states have been coated in at least half a foot of snow.
00:43With the south...
00:45It's particularly debilitated.
00:47Here in Mississippi, one woman watched a...
00:50Falling tree split her neighbour's trailer in half.
00:54Thankfully nobody...
00:55She got injured too badly.
00:57She does have a fractured back, but she's going to be okay.
01:00Mississippi's governor has deployed to the National Guard to assist crews to clear up the damage.
01:05But crippling power outages continue to batter the state.
01:09It's somewhat like...
01:10Whack-a-mole.
01:11Every time one of the utility companies and power companies gets a large...
01:15group back online, we have another tree fall or we have...
01:20Another limb fall...
01:21Across the country, scores of people have died...
01:25from the frigid conditions or snow-related accidents, including several here in New York.
01:30City, who were found outdoors over the weekend.
01:34Some boroughs...
01:35recorded 8 to 15 inches of snow, shutting down the public school system.
01:40Many people, however, have made the most of it.
01:43Exploring the world-famous city...
01:45covered in snow white.
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