US Death toll rises as ice storms moves across the nation

In Missouri, residents are experiencing an ice storm like none before. The storm has been terrorizing the state since the middle of last week. The storm has become so severe that Missouri has declared a state of emergency. President Bush sent the National Guard into Missouri today to take care of the 200,000 homes left without power. The number of fatalities recorded up to this point was around 35, although there still may be more related to the havoc that Mother Nature has wreaked on the central state.
This ice storm is not too different from the one that hit Canada and the United States in January of 1998. At the height of the storm more than 3 million were without power in the two nations. With the National Guard assisting the northern states over 9,000 were brought to shelters and given warmth and food. The deaths resulting directly from the weather only came out to four people.