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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

ARCTIC WINTER IN THE AMERICAN DEEP SOUTH - THE CHAOS

Deep South in chaos: Vicious winter storm leaves hundreds of cars abandoned on icy roads littered with pile-ups - as thousands are stranded and forced to sleep in schools, offices and grocery stores


  • Georgia calls in the National Guard after chaos on the roads following two and half inches of snow
  • Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal blames 'Mother Nature' and poor weather forecasting after thousands stranded more than 12 hours in bitter cold
  • Fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders across the South - jack-knifed 18-wheelers litter the interstates
  • Ice shuts down bridges on Florida's panhandle and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, one of the world's longest spans, in Louisiana
  • Georgia State Patrol called out to investigate 940 crashes in 12-hour period
  • 90 buses full of schoolchildren stuck on the roads overnight in Atlanta
  • Baby girl born on gridlocked highway in Atlanta, Georgia
  • The governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency
Read more and see pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548037/Thousands-stranded-snowy-roads-crashes-South-2-000-children-forced-sleep-schoo.html

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ARTIC BLAST STUNS SOUTH...
Atlanta drivers abandon cars...
Sleep In Grocery Stores...
18-hour commute...
School children spend overnight on buses...
Officials caught off guard...
Mayor: 'A lot of people' still stuck on highways...
CHICK-FIL-A feeds hundreds of stranded drivers for free...
National Guard Hands Out Food Used For Soldiers...
COLD: 18,000 Super Bowl Tickets Still Available...
CLIPPER: Weatherman Cantore wards off on-air heckler...
CHILL MAP...
More Extreme Weather Events articles on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Weather%20-%20Extreme%20Weather%20Events

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