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Like a bad B-Movie: In this aerial view looking at I-75 north at Moors Mill Rd., motorists get out of their vehicles to chat near abandoned cars along the ice-covered interstate after Wednesday's winter snow storm
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Georgia National Guard Sgt. Chad Armstrong (pictured left) and other guardsmen help people get their stranded cars out of the snow in Atlanta after a rare snow storm left thousands stranded on the roads
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The I-75 Chattahoochee River overpass near downtown Atlanta was littered with abandoned cars today after a winter snow storm slammed the city with just over 2 inches of snow on Tuesday
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Temperatures crept up across the South today after dropping into the teens overnight on Wednesday
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Timeline for chaos: This graphic reveals that on Sunday evening (left) officials in Atlanta were right not to expect the storm to hit the largest city in the South - but in a matter of hours on Monday morning the city was now in the path of the Arctic blast
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Impending doom: This weather advisory from Monday evening reveals that official in Georgia and Atlanta were issued a winter weather advisory that was upgraded to a full blown warning by 3.38 am on Tuesday morning - just hours before the area was blanketed with snow
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Standstill: Security lines stretch through the atrium and past baggage claim at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Atlanta. Canceled flights and long security lines had many travelers stuck at the airport following Tuesday and Wednesday's winter storm
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Still gridlock: The Atlanta southbound connector is clogged with traffic as the connector northbound is an empty sheet of ice due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday
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Response: Georgia National Guard troops drive down Interstate 285 as they look to help people get their stranded cars out of the snow in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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Angry exchange: Reporter Carol Costello and the Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed faced off today during an interview in which the pair argued over who was to blame for the city's bungled response to Tuesday's snow storm
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Rescue: Georgia National Guardsman Command Sgt. Maj. Buddy Grisham (C) is joined by fellow troops as they help people get their stranded cars out of the snow in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday
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Almost empty: Traffic is sparse on a snow and ice covered roadway in the metro-Atlanta city of Lithonia, Georgia, USA, 29 January 2014
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Chaotic: A jackknifed truck blocks traffic on a bridge on interstate 475 in Macon, Georgia on Wednesday as abandoned cars litter the roadway on the Southbound Connector (right) due to a snow storm
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Recovery: Two women retrieve their stranded car from Interstate 285 in Atlanta, Georgia January 29, 2014. The women left the car by the interstate the night before after getting stuck in the ice and snow
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Jack-knife: A truck blocks all east-bound lanes of Interstate 285 in Sandy Spring, Georgia, after htting an ice patch on the road on Wednesday
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Beautiful: This stunning animation shows the blast of polar winds that have come from the Arctic that caused such chaos in the South on Tuesday and Wednesday - the pink bars represent the motion of stratospheric wind as it churns air down south
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Stranded: Henrique Keller, from Brazil, looks over an Orlando travel magazine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, after getting stuck overnight at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta
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Finally: Snowplows clear Interstate 285 in Atlanta, raising questions about how city leaders prepared for and handled the cold snap that slammed the U.S. South
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Deep South freeze: Snow blankets the downtown area after a winter snow storm slammed into Birmingham, Alabama on Wednesday
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This aerial photo shows stranded vehicles on I-20 near Leeds, Alabama on Wednesday after a winter storm dumped snow in central and southern parts of the state
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Not going anywhere fast: The roads surrounding Atlanta were clogged with 18-wheeler trucks that were unable to move after two inches of snow fell
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Brookhaven police monitor a car fire in a vehicle left overnight by a motorist who was stranded by impassable roads after winter weather moved through Georgia
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It was disaster on the roads on Wednesday morning in Atlanta, Georgia after hundreds of drivers abandoned their cars
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Thick ice has created a waterfall effect on a hill as traffic moves south on I-75 in Covington, Kentucky where temperatures remain in single digits
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The ice-covered interstate system outside of downtown Atlanta was virtually empty today after other stretches of highway were snarled with traffic
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Cody Carpp, left, and Michael Gane, both of Mobile, Alabama, walk through Bienville Square as ice covers downtown and temperatures remain below freezing on Wednesday
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Traffic moves slowly on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as a rare snowstorm pummeled the American South over the past 24 hours
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A teacher at E. Rivers Elementary school covers sleeping children in the gymnasium of the school who were forced to stay in the aftermath of a winter storm in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday night
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Forecasts showed there would be another plummet in temperatures on Wednesday night bringing more adverse conditions
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An 'Arctic blanket' bears down on the South as just under three inches of snow caused chaos through Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi
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Firefighters work to clear a jack-knifed semi-truck that slid onto the median on U.S. Highway 98 in Mary Esther, Florida in the icy road conditions
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A Best Buy parking lot shows the effects of a winter snow storm on tire tracks on Wednesday
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In this aerial view looking south toward downtown Atlanta, the ice-covered interstate system shows the remnants of a winter snow storm
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In this aerial view of Hoover, Alabama, vehicles sit on and near the road after commuters pleaded for help via cellphones while still holed up in their cars for hours while others trudged miles home, abandoning their vehicles outright
Ryan Willis, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, said temperatures were still below freezing Wednesday and they were to dip back into the teens overnight. Thursday will offer much warmer weather, around the upper 30s to lower 40s.
Neither Governor Deal nor Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed would accept blame for the fact that thousands of people left schools, government offices and places of business at the same time - leading to huge congestion and pile-ups on the roads. However Deal placed some blame on the drivers of 18-wheeler trucks who had not placed chains on their tires.
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.
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Cars sit on an impassable steep road in Hoover, Alabama after icy weather chaos gripped the South as a tractor-trailer sits spun out while trying to get around stalled vehicles on I-65 North into Birmingham, Alabama
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One Atlanta school district admitted that 90 buses full of students had been stranded on roads overnight on Tuesday
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A hill looks dramatic covered in ice on Wednesday in Covington, Kentucky where temperatures remain in single digits following a snow storm in the South
'We are all in this together and we will get through it together,' read a statement from police in Anniston, Alabama. 'What was to be a simple dusting (of snow) has turned into something more. None of us were prepared.'
NBC reported from Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon that dozens of children were still stranded inside one elementary school due to the ice. Georgia Power reported on Wednesday that 1,600 customers has power outages, according to ajc.com.
The governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency.
On Wednesday morning, traffic was inching along on Southern highways as the ice remained treacherous and up to two inches thick in some parts. Fuel was also proving a problem as motorists stuck overnight began to move again.
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Traffic moves south on Interstate 75 past a hill covered with ice today in Covington, Kentucky
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Kevin Moore hands out snacks and water to a stranded motorist on Interstate 285 in Dunwoody, Georgia as Sunny Walker, a stranded motorist, holds her two dogs while in her truck Wednesday
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Customers were forced to sleep at a Home Depot in Atlanta after they became stranded overnight when roads because iced over and treacherous
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Angela Spain picks up her kids Neeley and Joel after a snow and ice storm stranded them at their school in Birmingham, Alabama. Pictured right, Johanna Klingler shields herself from the wind on Wednesday as she crosses Brooks Bridge in flip-flops on the way to work at Publix supermarket on Wednesday amid a snow storm in Fort Walton Beach, Florida
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Stranded motorists take shelter overnight at a pharmacy in Atlanta after the frozen road surfaces caused chaos and left many drivers stranded
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In this view looking at Cobb Parkway at I-285, abandoned cars are piled up on the median of the ice-covered road after a winter snow storm slammed the city with over 2 inches of snow that turned highways into parking lots creating massive traffic jams lasting through Wednesday
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People rest at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta. Kienan Dietrich sleeps at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded
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Motorists abandon their vehicles on Georgia State Highway 140 near the bottom of the large hill on Tuesday as a vicious winter storm set in
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Children play on a sand dune covered with snow after a rare ice storm blanked the normally warm city of Charleston, South Carolina
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At least someone's having fun! Kelvin Pena, 21, Matthew Bell, 22, Christopher Nunez, 19 and Emanuel Austin, 24, from left, Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 10th Marines, Camp Lejeune in Florida enjoy the ride on a makeshift toboggan on Wednesday. Right, Colby Daniels from Daphne slides down a hill in Alabama
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Vehicles that were abandoned on Tuesday evening in Dunwoody, Georgia as traffic snarled in the freezing, snowy conditions
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (left) and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (right) have insisted that they were prepared for the snowstorm in the region and have placed the blame on truck drivers, too many drivers on the roads and 'Mother Nature'
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A car sits abandoned in the middle of the Southbound Connector in Atlanta after a rare snowstorm stopped commuters in their tracks
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The Augusta Ferry makes its way across the frozen Ohio River at Augusta, Kentucky
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Interstate 10 East and West bound are seen nearly empty today in Daphne, Alabama after a rare winter storm coated the area in ice
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