More than 288,000 households are without power across Tennessee as a devastating ice storm grips the region. Communities around Nashville are being overwhelmed after hours of relentless freezing rain. Power lines are failing, massive trees are exploding and snapping apart and crushing vehicles below.Drivers are stranded as roads turn into solid, impassable sheets of ice. Homes are under increasing strain as roofs bear the weight of thick ice accumulation.

An official stated, “Conditions have become extremely critical.”