Snow storm startles South

Kimberly Villalba, 9, reacts after getting hit with a snowball as she plays with her friends in Winston-Salem, N.C., Jan. 28, 2014.

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.

Georgia

Karen Wang sleeps at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2014.

Eastern U.S.

A NASA satellite image shows a band of snow and freezing rain over the southeastern United States, stretching from Texas through Georgia and into the Carolinas, Jan. 29, 2014.

Georgia

A driver uses a mobile phone in a car after running off the roadway due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2014.

Georgia

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, Jan. 29, 2014, in Brookhaven, Ga.

Georgia

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 a winter snow storm in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 29, 2014.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday that 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. Georgia State Patrol troopers headed to schools where children were hunkered down early Wednesday after spending the night there, and transportation crews continued to treat roads and bring gas to motorists, Deal said.

Georgia

Preparing for freezing temperatures, Dwane Wilson, 44, builds a fire in a drum in the center of the camp he shares with other homeless, Jan. 28, 2014, in Savannah, Ga.

Georgia

Icicles hang off a camellia bush in historic Forsyth Park after freezing rain hit the area, Jan. 29, 2014, in Savannah, Ga.

Georgia

In this 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 a winter snow storm slammed the city with over two inches of snow that turned highways into parking lots creating massive traffic jams, in Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

Jerry Richardson adjusts his radio as he rests in the storeroom at the Ransom Cafe at West Mobile Baptist Church in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 28, 2014.

Alabama

Drivers talk with a Jefferson county sheriffs deputy as traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 65 northbound as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles, in Pelham, Ala., Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

Lance Sutley attempts to ride a skimboard down a snow covered hill, Jan. 28, 2014 in Troy, Ala.

Georgia

People rest at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2014.

Georgia

Kienan Dietrich sleeps at the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2014.

Florida

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Eight-year-old Emberly Dennis lands in the accumulated ice on the trampoline in her backyard in Panama City, Fla., Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

A car lies half submerged in the Cahaba River in Mountain Brook, Ala., Jan.30, 2014. The driver was able to escape before the car slid into the river during Tuesday's snow storm and was not injured.

Alabama

This photo taken with a fisheye lens over I-459 shows the remnants of a winter snow storm that slammed into the South and turned highways into parking lots in Mountain Brook, Ala., Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

A tractor-trailer weaves after striking an abandoned car, lower right, on Interstate 20, in Leeds, Ala., Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

Sofia Swann, 9, and several other children play in the ice on Fernway Street in Mobile, Ala. as temperatures remain below freezing, Jan. 29, 2014.

North Carolina

A bike rider rides the hills at Dorothea Dix Campus in Raleigh, N.C. , Jan. 29, 2014.

Alabama

Residents clear ice and snow from a road in Margaret, Ala., Jan. 29, 2014.

Georgia

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, Jan. 29, 2014.