Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting

More than 89,000 residents of east Texas, Arkansas and northwest Louisiana remained without electricity on December 27 after an ice storm battered the region on Christmas Day, a spokesman for AEP-Southwestern Electric Power Co. said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A deadly storm bearing ice and snow moved across the mid-southern United States, paralyzing Arkansas and Oklahoma with widespread power outages and ice-coated roadways. Half a million people had no electricity as a layer of ice up to two inches thick toppled trees and snapped power lines from New Mexico to Arkansas. Police said 16 people died in weather-related accidents after the storm started in New Mexico on Christmas Day. As the system moved eastward, it dumped a record 20 inches of snow on northern Texas.