With temperatures hovering just below freezing and ice visibly accumulating on branches, the next six hours is critical for the Northside.
To the north, Winona and Grenada are almost totally without power. Whether Jackson escapes that fate remains to be seen
Weather radar indicates hours more of rain and temperatures right at freezing. Just one or two degrees will determine our fate.
Forecasts are for half and inch of ice, enough to cause widespread outages but far below the two-inch accumulations of the devastating 1994 ice storm. So far, 700,000 homes nationwide are without power and that number is causing rapidly.
