(Epoch Times) As a vast winter storm continues to make its way across the eastern United States, various municipalities have begun to report deaths as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and thousands more remain stranded in airports across the country.

Two men also died of hypothermia related to the storm in Caddo Parish in Louisiana, according to the state health department.

Many Americans and international travelers were stranded after U.S. airlines were forced to cancel more than 11,400 flights.

American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines had the most flights nixed, with each canceling more than 1,200 flights on Sunday alone. Delta Air Lines announced on Sunday it will operate a reduced flight schedule due to the frozen temperatures.

The weekend storm dumped snow and glazed power lines with ice from the Southern Rocky Mountains and into New England.

Tennessee’s power grid was the most heavily affected by the storm, with more than 336,000 power outages.

Nashville was the most impacted city in the state and the country, with more than 200,000 residents waking up to no power and thick layers of ice covering roads, sidewalks, and cars.

“Weighted down by ice, trees are snapping and taking down power lines across the area.”

As of 2:45 p.m. ET, Mississippi had more than 174,000 outages as Louisiana experienced nearly 150,000 outages.

Power started being restored in Texas but tens of thousands of people were still without lights.

Georgia, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Alabama had tens of thousands of people without power around Sunday afternoon.

President Donald Trump approved federal emergency disaster declarations on Saturday for South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that the storm will rage on with a wintry mix of conditions until Monday.

“Up to eighteen inches will fall over New England, and 0.50 inches of freezing rain over parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Ohio/Tennessee Valleys,” an advisory from the NWS predicted.

​The NWS also warned that states in the Eastern Gulf Coast may experience severe thunderstorms that produce damaging gusts and tornadoes on Sunday.