Storm leaves thousands in the South facing freezing temperatures without power. Here are the numbers

KENNESAW, Georgia — As a deadly storm that brought crippling ice to the south and deep snow to the northeast finally began swirling out to sea Monday, it represented the light at the end of the tunnel for some.

But thousands of Americans were still without power or heat, and temperatures were expected to fall well below freezing Tuesday morning in areas where the ice storm caused the worst damage.

More than 800,000 power outages were reported nationwide as of Monday morning, including more than 150,000 in the Nashville, Tennessee, area, according to poweroutage.com. About 140,000 people were left without power in hard-hit Mississippi, and another 115,000 in frigid Louisiana.

After a sleepless night in Iuka, Mississippi, Adrian Ronca-Hohn said he woke up Monday in what felt “like a war zone.”

“We couldn’t go 10 seconds without hearing what sounded like a gunshot,” the 23-year-old football coach said of falling trees and branches. “You would hear a pop, a hard pop, and you would hear the hiss of him falling, and then he would crash to the ground and kind of explode.”

With temperatures across the South expected to reach their coldest levels this week early Tuesday morning, people without power are trying to survive.

“A lot of people are without heat, without electricity and without water,” Ronca-Hohn said. We have a lot of mobile homes here that are not very well insulated.”

Here’s a look at the storm by the numbers.

An inch of ice (2.5 centimeters) recorded in several communities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alabama and South Carolina.

The Fahrenheit temperature (minus 17 Celsius) is expected early Tuesday morning in Tennessee’s capital, where thousands remain without power.

Inches of sleet (17 centimeters) fell at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to preliminary totals.

That’s how many days it will take to restore power to Allen County, Kentucky, city officials said. Other communities have estimated similar timelines. In New Albany, Mississippi, the city utility warned Sunday that restoring power to all its customers “will take at least a week and possibly longer depending on conditions.”

Inches of snow (56.4 centimeters) fell during the storm in Sterling, Massachusetts. The number is a preliminary figure through Monday morning.

The number of places in Nashville where people without power can go to stay warm and charge their phones, including fire and police stations.

The temperature is Fahrenheit (10 Celsius) inside Marshall Ramsey’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, Monday morning after a power outage. The weekend ice storm “was like a demonic symphony of broken trees, blown transformers and thunder,” said Ramsey, a longtime cartoonist who now teaches at the University of Mississippi.

The number of dogs rescued from a rural property in the Tupelo, Mississippi area just before the ice storm by Paws of War. The New York-based nonprofit rescues animals and places them with veterans and first responders.

The number of customers without power in Mississippi as of Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.com.

The number of Nashville Electric Service customers without power in the Nashville area as of Monday afternoon, according to the company.

The number of customers without power in Tennessee as of Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.com.

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Associated Press writers Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Sophie Bates in Jackson, Mississippi, Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Kristin M. Hall in Nashville; Jake Offenhartz in New York and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut.