KEY TAKEAWAYS: Severe winter weather left more than 823,000 U.S. customers without power Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana reported the highest outage totals Entergy and Nashville Electric Service were among the hardest-hit utilities Crews across multiple states worked to restore power as c onditions persisted A severe winter storm that brought heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain left more than 823,000 homes and businesses without power early on Monday across a swath of the U.S., from the Ohio Valley and mid-South to New England. The hardest-hit utilities included Nashville Electric Service (NES) in Tennessee, where 172,000 of 463,455 customers were without power, and Entergy, with more than 142,000 of 3.05 million U.S. customers affected, according to PowerOutage.us. “NES lineworkers will continue overnight and we will not stop until power is back on for all customers,” Nashville Electric Service said in a post on X. North Carolina accounted for much of the outages for Duke Energy, according to PowerOutage.us. Duke Energy had expected customer outages to increase through late Sunday.   Here are the major outages by state: State                         Outages Tennessee                  248,401 Mississippi                157,516 Louisiana             123,929           Texas                         58,754 Kentucky                   50,228 South Carolina         43,441 Georgia                    37,609 North Carolina       29,248 Total Out                823,162    (Reporting by Sarah Qureshi and Noel John in Bengaluru; Editing by Kate Mayberry and Bernadette Baum) ...read more read less