North Carolina Is This Storm's Atlanta

Ice and snow bring gridlock, too
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Feb 12, 2014 7:37 PM CST
North Carolina Is This Storm's Atlanta
Kevin Miller looks out of the passenger window of his friend's car as they sit in stuck traffic during a storm Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C.   (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Scott Sharpe)

Today's big winter storm is arriving as advertised throughout parts of the South, and the images emerging from North Carolina suggest that the state didn't learn from Atlanta's mistakes last month. The AP reports that pretty much the same thing happened to Raleigh and other cities this afternoon: People left work early as the snow began, and everybody seemed to do so around the same time. The result has been gridlock on interstates and on roads big and small. (In Atlanta, meanwhile, the roads are mostly clear.)

“I thought I was going to go through town, but now I‘m not sure we’re going anywhere,” one stranded driver near downtown Raleigh tells the News & Observer. About 100,000 homes and businesses have lost power in the state, along with 200,000 in Georgia and 245,000 in South Carolina. At least 11 deaths have been blamed on the storm, which is expected to keep tracking toward the Northeast overnight. (More North Carolina stories.)

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