With hundreds of thousands of homes still without power, we spoke to residents affected, many confined indoors
More than 40 people have died in a huge winter storm in the US. Schools were closed and flights cancelled as people grappled with heavy snowfall and icy conditions.
Nearly 300,000 households are also still without power, several days later, according to poweroutage.us. We spoke to people affected by the storm. Here are some of their responses.
Meghan Chrobot, 25, who lives in Nashville, was left without power and had to sit in her car to keep warm and charge her phone.
“I’ve genuinely never seen anything like this before,” says Meghan, who is originally from Pittsburgh and works in music business management. “I woke up on Sunday morning to my power being out and the sound of ice-covered trees cracking and branches falling. I live right by the highway and typically hear a lot of cars and traffic, but there was no sound of cars. All I heard for most of the day while my power was out was the sound of the trees falling.”
