While operations have resumed, the university is reminding folks that those operations will be adjusted while crews work to repair damaged parts of campus.
And, it may be a long road to normalcy for Ole Miss and Oxford.
Antonia Eliason, a professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the law school, has had to stay with friends and colleagues while her home was without power.
"It's the scale of the disaster: we live in a particularly wooded area," she said. "It looks like a tornado went through, but not selectively, went through everywhere."
She says that fortunately, power returned to the university pretty quickly. She's hearing most students on campus are doing well.
But, she worries about the students who live off-campus and may have had damage to their homes, especially if they left for the storm.
"I think for students who are coming back into town, this is going to be more disruptive than I think people are thinking," Eliason told MPB. "My gut feeling is that we may even end up with some students who struggle to come back in person because they may not have somewhere that they can live."
Jade Craig is a law professor who lost power and water and Internet at various points in the storm. While he said much of the main parts of town are in better shape, side streets and other areas are still looking rough.
"It looks like a bomb has gone off in terms of the trees," Craig said. "It's concerning because many of them will not be able to recover and some of them have to be pulled up and replanted."
He said getting back on his feet, and helping his students get back on theirs, is going to be a challenge.
"We will need to try to fit a 13-week semester into 11 weeks, which will mean making certain revisions to the syllabus and trying to teach material in different ways," he said.
Almas Khan is another Ole Miss law professor who lives in Lafayette County. She left town a few days after the storm hit, after her home became unbearably cold and she started seeing cracks in her roof.
She flew out of the airport in Memphis. Normally, that trip would be just over an hour.
"It took the shuttle driver about five hours to get to Memphis airport in rather treacherous conditions, in terms of ice and snow still on the ground," Khan said. "We saw dozens if not potentially little hundreds in the number of stalled trucks on the freeways and roads."
"At this point both of the interstates were closed, so for most of the time until we got to the Tennessee state line, we did have to take side streets."
County emergency management officials say roads are passable in Lafayette County now. But, there may be closures as needed for crews to take care of downed trees and power lines.
"Lafayette County is about 700 square miles and it's like a 700 square mile EF2 tornado hit our county at the same time," said Beau Moore, emergency management director for the county. "When you get to the rural areas, those people have really been impacted by trees that have fallen on their homes."
Power in the northern counties has largely been restored, but full recovery is still ahead.
