Helicopters search for stranded Southern drivers [View all]
Source: AP-EXCITE
By RAY HENRY and RUSS BYNUM
ATLANTA (AP) - Helicopters took to the skies Wednesday to search for stranded drivers while authorities on the ground worked to deliver food, water and gas - or a ride home - to people who were stuck on highways after a winter storm walloped the Deep South.
Students spent the night on buses or at schools, commuters abandoned their cars or idled in them all night and the highways turned into parking lots when the roads iced over.
It wasn't clear exactly how many people were still stranded on the roads a day after the storm paralyzed the region. And the timing of when things would clear and when the highways would thaw was also uncertain because temperatures were not expected to be above freezing.
"We literally would go 5 feet and sit for two hours," said Jessica Troy, who along with a co-worker spent more than 16 hours in her car before finally getting home late Wednesday morning.
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Traffic is at a standstill on the southbound lanes as the northbound side is a empty sheet of ice in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. After a rare snowstorm stopped Atlanta-area commuters in their tracks — forcing many to hunker down in their cars overnight or seek other shelter, the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto the city's snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to students on them, Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT
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