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.”

Please keep Nashville and communities across

Middle Tennessee in your thoughts,

along with first responders,

as this rapidly escalating ice disaster continues to unfold.