ATLANTA (AP) – Students camped out with teachers in school gyms and commuters abandoned cars along the highway to seek shelter in churches, fire stations – even grocery stores – after a rare snowstorm left thousands of unaccustomed Southerners frozen in their tracks.
- Vehicles make their way around a beer delivery truck that slid off county road 25 in Wilsonville, Ala. during a snow storm which hit the south. A winter storm that would probably be no big deal in the North all but paralyzed the Deep South on Tuesday, bringing snow, ice and teeth-chattering cold, with temperatures in the teens in some places.
Tuesday’s storm deposited mere inches of snow, barely enough to qualify as a storm up North. And yet it was more than enough to paralyze Deep South cities such as Atlanta and Birmingham, and strand thousands of workers who tried to rush home early only to never make it home at all.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta’s snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Deal also said the Georgia State Patrol was sending troopers to schools where children remained stranded early Wednesday after spending the night there.
State transportation crews were continuing to treat roads and bring gas to stranded motorists, Deal said.
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