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Winter storm causes havoc in US South

A winter storm that hit the southern United States yesterday all but paralyzed the city of Atlanta, stranding people in cars at stores and children at their schools. The storm only brought a few inches across the region but with the ice caused major problems in America's southern region.

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Winter storm causes havoc in US South

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  1. Winter storm causes havoc in US South Kimberly Villalba, 9, reacts after getting hit with a snowball as she plays with her friends in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Jan. 28. 

  2. Traffic is snarled along the I-285 perimeter north of the metro area after a winter snow storm on Jan. 29 in Atlanta.

  3. People rest at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Ga, on Jan. 29. A rare winter storm gripped the US South on Wednesday, killing five people, stranding children overnight at their schools, gnarling traffic across many states and canceling flights at the world's busiest airport. 

  4. Good Samaritan Sammy Rouchdi pushes stranded motorist Cameron Scheeler up an iced over hill on Womack Road after he became stuck on the ice trying to get home on Jan. 28 in Dunwoody, Ga.

  5. A band of snow and freezing rain is pictured over the southeastern United States, stretching from Texas through Georgia and into the Carolinas, in this Jan. 29 handout satellite image provided by NASA.

  6. Traffic sits at a standstill on the downtown Interstate 75-85 as dawn breaks in the aftermath of a winter storm in unprepared Atlanta, Ga., on January 29.

  7. Snowflakes cling to nine-year-old Tamya Hardy's eyelashes as she plays in the snow with friends on Jan. 28 in Winston-Salem, N.C.

  8. Icicles hang off a camellia bush in historic Forsyth Park after freezing rain hit the area on Jan. 29 in Savannah, Ga.

  9. Dozens of motorists become stranded on Womack Road as dropping temperatures turn the hill into a sheet of ice on Jan. 28 in Dunwoody, Ga. Georgia Gov. 

  10. With a winter storm making its way over southeast Virginia late Jan. 28, Sean Cantrell, center, and his wife Megan Cantrell venture out onto the snowy Virginia Beach oceanfront for a look with there dog Griffin. 

  11. Darlene Villalba, 6, works to get her purple gloves on as snow falls in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Jan. 28.

  12. A lone car travels on the downtown Interstate 75-85 in Atlanta on Jan. 29 after a winter storm hit Georgia.

  13. In this aerial view looking at I-75 north at Mt. Paran Rd., abandoned cars are piled up on the median of the ice-covered interstate on Jan. 29. in Atlanta, Ga. 

  14. Kevin Moore hands out snacks and water to a stranded motorist on Interstate 285 on Jan. 29 in Dunwoody, Ga. Georgia Gov.

  15. A truck slides as he tries to avoid another wrecked truck as snow begins to accumulate on I-65 several road closures in Alabama on Jan. 28 in Clanton, Ala. 

  16. As a group of his friends watch, Aaron Whitaker, right, falls while trying to slide down the hill while standing up on a piece of cardboard at Renaissance Park on Jan. 28 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

  17. A series of snowmen are seen on the back of a car as cold weather descends on Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 29.

  18. Kienan Dietrich sleeps at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 29.

  19. Buddy Pate puts sand on the steps of The Parlour on Main, a business co-owned by his wife, Virginia, as well as Cathy Smith and Sandra Keith, along Main Avenue in downtown Northport, Ala., on Jan. 28.

  20. Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 65 northbound as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles on Jan. 29 in Hoover, Ala. Overnight, the South saw fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders. 

  21. Snow covers a dead lizard in Springville, Ala., on Jan. 28.

  22. 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. 

  23. Sue Morrison watches as Chris McAdams scrapes ice from her car in Panama City Beach, Fla. on Jan. 29. A rare winter storm brought snow and ice to the Florida Panhandle.

  24. Joyce Cook, and instructional aide, reads Snowflake Bentley to a group of 5th graders stranded at Oak Mountain Intermediate school due to snow and ice on Jan. 28 in Indian Springs, Ala.

  25. Officer Delaney talks with a crash victim who was involved in a five-car pileup on Johnson Ferry Road early morning Jan. 29, in Sandy Springs, Ga. 

  26. John Fitzgerald, a lineman for Dominion Power, uses cross-country skis on Hanbury Road in Chesapeake, Va. to get to work on Jan. 29.

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