two confirmed , said the office of Gov. Steve Beshear . A previously confirmed death has since been found to be unrelated to the weather . In western Louisville , three adults were found dead Friday morning of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator the family brought indoors , Mayor Jerry Abramson said . The deaths prompted authorities to issue a stern warning about the dangers of carbon monoxide . `` We 've lost three citizens because people were n't listening to the fire department when they look into the cameras and talk on the radios and say , ` listen up , carbon monoxide kills , ' '' Abramson said in a press conference Friday afternoon . `` We ca n't talk enough about it . '' The storm caused the largest power outage in Kentucky 's history , with more than 607,000 customers out of power . Watch residents of Grayson County , Kentucky , try to cope with outage '' But Melnykovych said that while the state is saying 607,000 customers have lost power , he thinks the number is closer to 650,000 because the state figure comes only from utilities it regulates . When Hurricane
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The brutal winter storm that caused havoc from Texas to Maine has paralyzed swaths of Kentucky , where officials are working to cope with what they say is the worst power outage in the state 's history . `` We are kind of in a state of emergency . It 's pretty bad , '' said iReporter Dwight Stanley of Louisville , Kentucky . Andrew Melnykovych , spokesman for Kentucky 's Public Service Commission , said it is `` an indescribable mess everywhere . '' Ice storms covered parts of the state Friday , with moderate snowstorms expected to continue into Saturday morning , the National Weather Service said . Temperatures that dipped into the teens on Friday are expected to rise to the upper 30s to lower 40s on Saturday , the weather service said . Larry Holeman , deputy emergency management director of rural Grayson County , called his hard-hit community `` a war zone . '' The emergency reflects the challenges faced in states such as Kentucky , where many rural and remote regions struggle to keep warm and dry under dire weather conditions . Nine weather-related deaths have been reported , with