At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a storm system that blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting, as bitterly cold weather kept an icy grip Thursday on a swath of the U.S. stretching from Oregon to the Northeast. Tennessee officials updated the state's death toll at midweek after the storm dumped more than 9 inches (23 centimeters) of snow since Sunday in parts of Nashville, where only about half that amount falls in a given year. Forecasters also warned that a new, thin coating of ice could form Thursday in much of Tennessee followed by more single-digit lows through the weekend.
CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — It was bitterly cold to start the morning in Jackson, Alabama. I stopped at two car lots and saw a thin sheet of ice had accumulated on every uncovered car. There was also an ice build-up on the grass. Clarke County was seeing some of the first wintry weather in […]