Thomas Kinkade The Rose Garden painting

s really the equivalent of having a nuclear device go off, without the mushroom cloud or radioactivity," Huckabee told CNN television. "Virtually everything is shut down. We have 11 or 12 counties where every single person has lost power, phone service and water."He spoke by cellular telephone, because the governor's mansion had neither electricity nor a working telephone line. Huckabee said it was likely that some areas of his state would not have power for at least 10 days. In Texarkana, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas line, officials ordered a nighttime curfew and froze all prices to prevent merchants from capitalizing on the city's troubles. "Everywhere you look, trees are snapped like match sticks. Power lines are down everywhere and most of the streets are impassable becau