2026年2月5日 / 美国东部时间下午5:19 / CBS新闻
一场灾难性冰暴席卷密西西比州东北部近两周后，截至周四，仍有25,000户家庭没有电力供应。对于那些为取暖和维持基本生活而承受巨大经济负担的人们来说，情况正一天比一天严峻。
密西西比州泰勒镇（距牛津市仅20分钟车程）的戈德一家表示，他们不得不动用积蓄来支付小型取暖器所需的丙烷费用，以及五天前购买的400美元发电机的燃料费用。发电机一次只能运行几件电器，所以他们主要用它为电取暖器供电，晚上偶尔给7岁的儿子泰勒林（Tylin）看一会儿电视娱乐。
他们在窗台和门框上缠绕了特殊的管道密封胶带以防止冷空气进入，还在燃气炉上持续烧水——不仅为了有热水洗澡，还为了给厨房取暖。
戈德一家晚上睡在客厅——这是房子里最暖和的房间。
“我们没想到情况会这么糟，”坦布拉·戈德（Tmbra Golden）在接受CBS新闻采访时眼含泪水说道，”我们原以为顶多会停电几天，以为密西西比州东北部电力协会（Northeast Mississippi Electric Power Association）和电力公司能很快修复并恢复供电，但现在看来，情况比我们预想的要严重得多。”
坦布拉·戈德说，她和丈夫一直做食品配送司机来赚取额外现金，以购买更多丙烷。两人还感激当地教会的一些捐赠。
“现在我们只能祈祷，当电力恢复后，我们能重建储蓄，回到这次事件发生前的生活状态，”她说。
密西西比州东北部电力协会发言人莎拉·布鲁克·毕晓普（Sarah Brooke Bishop）本周早些时候告诉CBS新闻，来自密西西比州和几个邻近州的工作人员正在不知疲倦地工作，直到全部恢复供电，但倒下的树木和电线造成的大规模、大范围损坏形成了严重障碍。
在牛津市以北一小时车程的里普利（Ripley），一些家庭告诉CBS新闻，当地电力公司已告知他们，至少还需要一周时间才能全面恢复供电。
部分挑战在于，尽管大部分主干基础设施已恢复，但工作人员现在必须挨家挨户地帮助居民重新接通电源。
据牛津公立学区发言人吉尔·诺克斯（Jill Knox）称，截至2月4日，30%的员工仍未恢复供电。
“情况仍然非常严峻，”诺克斯说。
周三在牛津中学举行的捐赠活动中，志愿者向有需要的家庭分发了食物、零食和外套。志愿者工作人员还在帮助为家庭运送物资。
诺克斯表示，他们每天最多为600人提供免费热餐。她还提到镇上还有其他食品捐赠活动，每天也在帮助数百人。
“我对这个社区的每个人都赞不绝口，”诺克斯说。
牛津市的一些居民只是庆幸自己还活着。
20岁的牛津居民布林丁·钱德勒（Brindin Chandler）上周冰暴期间表示，他没有睡懒觉，而是自愿帮助工作人员用链锯清理倒下的树木。
上午10点左右他回到家，正走向自己的移动房屋时，看到一棵大树直接砸穿房屋落在他的床上。如果他当时没有外出帮助别人，而是在家睡觉，这棵树就会砸到他身上。
“正是因为我们当时在帮忙，我才没有在屋里，”钱德勒说。
他将此归功于”运气”。
“我从没想过这种事会发生在我身上，”钱德勒说，”能活着真好。”
看到树倒下后，他说：”我立刻跑过来寻找我的猫，但找不到它们。”
当时家中的两只猫中有一只不幸死亡，另一只幸存下来。他们花了三天时间清理瓦砾才找到猫的尸体。钱德勒还有很多清理工作要做。
这是他的第一套房子，他在这个移动房屋里住了将近两年。现在他和父亲住在一起，直到找到新住处。他还为父亲工作，父子俩甚至一起组建了一支重金属摇滚乐队。
自风暴发生以来，他一直在牛津社区周围帮忙处理他人房屋的树木损坏和杂物清理工作。他说能成为”一个社区的一部分”感觉很好。
当被问及如何在自己房屋仍有树木倒下的情况下保持积极态度时，他说：”人们常说生活是自己创造的，如果你消极对待，眼前的一切都会显得消极；如果你保持积极，至少一切看起来都会是积极的。”
Weeks after ice storm in northeast Mississippi, 25,000 still without power: “It’s a lot worse than we thought”
February 5, 2026 / 5:19 PM EST / CBS News
Nearly two weeks after a catastrophic ice storm rocked northeast Mississippi, still 25,000 customers are without power as of Thursday, and the situation is getting more dire by the day for people who are taking on overwhelming financial burdens to stay warm and retain some normalcy.
The Golden family of Taylor, Mississippi, a town just 20 minutes south of Oxford, said they have been dipping into savings to pay for the high cost of propane for their small space heater and fuel for their $400 generator they bought five days ago. The generator can only run a few things at a time, so they use it for an electric space heater and occasionally the TV at night for entertainment for their 7-year-old son, Tylin.
They put a special pipe fitting tape around the window sills and door frame to keep cold air out, and they keep water boiling perpetually on their gas stove, not only to have warm water to bathe with, but also to help keep their kitchen warm.
Seven-year-old Tylin Golden sits by an electric space heater in Tayor, Miss. CBS News
The family of three sleeps in their living room at night — the warmest room in the house.
“We wasn’t expecting it to be this bad,” Tambra Golden said with tears in her eyes in an interview with CBS News. “We kind of figured that we was gonna be without lights for a few days, and we thought the Northeast (Northeast Mississippi Electric Power Association) and the power company, they was going to be able to go through and fix things and get us back to where up and running, but I see that it is, it’s a lot, it’s a lot worse than what we thought it was gonna be.”
Tambra Golden said she and her husband have been working as food delivery drivers to drum up some extra cash to pay for more propane. The two said they are also grateful to have received some donations from a local church.
“All we can do now is pray that when we do get lights and able to move, that we can build our savings back up and get back to where we were before this happened,” she said.
The Golden family keeps boiling water sitting on the gas stove to have warm water to bathe with and help keep their kitchen warm. CBS News
Northeast Mississippi Electric Power Association spokesperson Sarah Brooke Bishop told CBS News earlier this week that crews from Mississippi and several neighboring states are working tirelessly until all power is restored, but the massive, widespread damage of fallen trees and power lines has created serious obstacles.
An hour north of Oxford, in Ripley, Miss., some families tell CBS News their local power company has informed them it will be at least another week before all power is restored.
Part of the challenge is that even though much of the mainline infrastructure has been restored, crews now have to go from house to house to get people back online.
According to Jill Knox, a spokesperson with the Oxford public school district, 30% of their staff were still without power as of Feb 4.
“It’s still pretty dire,” Knox said.
At a donation event at Oxford Middle School on Wednesday, volunteers passed out meals, snacks and coats to families in need. Volunteer staff members are also helping deliver items to families.
Knox says they have been feeding up to 600 people a day with free hot meals. She says she’s aware of several other food drives in town that have also been helping hundreds of people a day.
“I cannot say enough great things about everyone in this community,” Knox said.
Some people in Oxford, Miss., are just grateful to be alive.
Cleanup continues after ice storm that hit Mississippi in January. CBS News
Brindin Chandler, 20, of Oxford, said last week, during the ice storm, instead of sleeping in, he was volunteering his time to help crews chainsaw and remove fallen trees.
When he came home around 10 a.m., as he was walking up to his mobile home, he watched a large tree fall right through his home and onto his bed. If he had not been out helping others, and instead at home sleeping, the tree would have landed on top of him.
“Because we were doing that is the only reason that I wasn’t in there,” Chandler said.
He chalks it up to “luck.”
“I never thought it would happen to me,” Chandler said. “Glad to be alive.”
As soon as he saw it fall, he said, “I instantly ran right over here to look for my cats, but I couldn’t find them.”
Brindin Chandler, 20, of Oxford, said since the storm hit, he has been working around the Oxford community to help others. CBS News
One of his two cats inside the home at the time died, but the other survived. It took three days for them to sort through the rubble before they found the cat’s body. Chandler still has a lot of cleaning up left to go.
It was his starter home. He had lived in the mobile home for almost two years. Now he’s living with his dad until he can find another place. He also works for his father, and the two of them even play in a metal rock band together.
Since the storm hit, he has been working around the Oxford community to help others with all of their tree damage and debris. He said it’s felt good to be a part of “one community.”
Asked about how he’s kept a positive attitude, helping other clear trees off their houses while he still has a tree on his own, he said, “well, they say life is what you make it, if you stay negative, everything in front of you will probably be negative, if you stay positive, everything will at least seem that way.”
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