Over 540,000 customers without power
At least 540,363 customers were without power as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to PowerOutage.us, with Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky hit the hardest.
At least 173,997 customers were without power in Tennessee, 140,375 customers in Mississippi, 99,614 customers in Louisiana and 28,072 in Kentucky, PowerOutage.us said.

Also without power were 27,920 customers in Texas, 14,132 in South Carolina, 12,984 in Georgia, 10,412 in Virginia, 6,506 in West Virginia and 4,794 in Florida.
The Nashville Electric Service -- which as of Monday was the hardest-hit utility in the country according to PowerOutage.us -- said it planned to "double its workforce" to respond to the outages.
-ABC News' Aidan Gellert and Charlotte Slovin






