Nashville Then: Ice storm of 1994

The lines don't quite meet, but Linda Voekel, administrative services manager for the Tennessee Public Service Commission, followed the safest route through an icy Legislative Plaza on Feb. 10, 1994.

White House resident Marty Yardley, left, with the help of his brother, Ray, second from left, cut limbs from a fallen tree that landed on neighbor Esther Crumley's rental car Feb. 11, 1994. Crumley, right, and her son, Randy, second from right, view the damage. Fallen trees and limbs covered much of the landscape in Middle Tennessee.

Tennessee State Highway workers use a pay loader to clear ice-covered broken limbs from a tree on Highway 100 near Warner Park on Feb. 11, 1994.

A driver slowly makes his way around downed tree limbs on ice-covered Buckingham Circle near Highway 96E on Feb. 11, 1994.

Elton Reeves looks over the ice damage to a greenhouse behind the home of Harry Lindahl on Chickering Park Drive on Feb. 11, 1994.

Reva and Gary Nichols examine the damage at their home in southeast Nashville on Feb. 11, 1994. Like many people, they had no electricity and many downed tree limbs.

Mildred Cates, 78, of Barfield Meadows, sits on her cot at Middle Tennessee State University's Murphy Center on Feb. 11, 1994. The center acted as a makeshift shelter for Rutherford County residents who found themselves without power during the ice storm.

Staff Sgt. James Harper of National Guard 3rd Battalion in Gallatin cuts a branch from a tree that was damaged in the ice storm Feb. 12, 1994, in Portland.

Steve Moore, top, and Pete Danell remove a section of limb that crashed through the home of Emma and Buford Willis of Donelson on Feb. 12, 1994.

Despite the damage to her kitchen from a falling tree limb, Emma Willis of Donelson still is able to use the telephone Feb. 12, 1994.

Without power at his home, David Durrett and his son, Jared, 5, stay at a temporary shelter at McGavock High School on Feb. 12, 1994.

James McKissack, whose home is without power because of the ice storm, sat alone at the shelter set up at McGavock High School on Feb. 12, 1994.

Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro, here Feb. 13, 1994, was damaged extensively during the ice storm.

Jonathan Thompson gets a little shut-eye in the Clayton Estates Mobile Home Park Clubhouse in La Vergne, where shelter was set up for residents without power, on Feb. 13, 1994.

The cold and dark didn't stop members of the Bennyworth family, Mathew, 10, left, David and Patrick, 7, from attending service at St. Henry's Church on Feb. 13, 1994.

Marvin Pugh steps over branches of a tree that fell on his beloved 1985 Buick and blocked the back door to his Worley Drive home Feb. 14, 1994.