The latest figures from utility companies on the number of homes and businesses without power in the nine states hit hardest by an ice storm that stretched from the Southern Plains to Appalachia:

• Arkansas: 350,000

• Illinois: 6,500

• Indiana: 89,000

• Kentucky: 542,000

• Missouri: 120,000

• Ohio: 128,000

• Oklahoma: 20,000

• Tennessee: 14,600

• West Virginia: 35,000

• TOTAL: 1.30 million