HERNANDO, Miss. — As we look ahead to possible severe weather on Tuesday, north Mississippi is trying to recover from the damaging weather that just came through.

Schools in DeSoto County will once again be out due to power outages affecting the district.

In hard-hit Hernando, dozens of crews from Entergy Mississippi are working to restore power.

“We’re still continuing to assess some damages and bring additional crews in,” said Dane Chamberlin, the Regional Customer Service Manager at Entergy Mississippi.

In the meantime, the sound of generators could be heard in the Cross Creek neighborhood on a hot and humid Monday afternoon.

As a way to distract themselves from the lack of power in their homes and other effects of the storm, many neighbors spent the day together.

“We’re all kinda in it together,” Eric Marr said. “We just rally when we can and just try to make the best of every moment.”

“One of the neighbors has a little pool, so we can get in there,” Jim Lloyd said. “I’ve got a generator running for my refrigerator and some fans running.”

Lloyd is also dealing with another issue. A 90-foot, 150-year-old tree came crashing down in his backyard and smashed through a fence.

Tonight, Lloyd said he considers himself fortunate.

“Could’ve been way worse, I’ve worried about this tree in my yard,” Lloyd said. “I’ve been here about 15 years and I’ve always worried about it falling on the house.”

Sadly, other nearby homes weren’t so lucky.

We watched a repair team put tarps over a house that was crushed by fallen trees.

Entergy told WREG that there have been at least 60 broken poles in Hernando, trees still blocking roads and some vegetation entangled in equipment.

Those have created quite a few hurdles to navigate through, with more potentially severe weather on the horizon.

“Well, certainly it could compound issues,” Chamberlin said.

But beyond repairs, there’s preparation that has to be done. An example of that was people getting fuel for generators.

“Definitely important to prepare cause you don’t know what’s going to come tomorrow too,” Scott Kimbrough said.

Entergy Mississippi had a message for residents in the meantime.

“We’re prepared and will address that as it comes and continue to restore until all of our customers are restored,” Chamberlin said.

Entergy told WREG that it’s possible many could have their power restored, hopefully by 10 p.m. Tuesday night.