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PENSACOLA, Fla. – It took back-to-back blizzards to paralyze the nation's capital, but in the Deep South it only takes a couple inches of snow.
Flakes were falling — or threatened — Friday from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and then up along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, bringing a rare white landscape to spots that haven't seen snow in a decade or longer. The storm was crawling east out of Texas, where it left the Dallas area with more than a foot of snow, nearly 200 traffic accidents, thousands without power and hundreds of canceled flights.
Far less snow was falling in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, though the effect was still crippling. Snow, ice and sleet closed parts of Interstate 49 in central Louisiana.
Just the anticipation of an inch of snow was enough to close schools in the Florida Panhandle, while classes also were canceled in parts of Alabama. Nearly two-dozen school districts closed across Georgia because of the snow forecast.
Snow began falling late Thursday in southwest Alabama and was still coming down Friday morning, with as much as 2 inches already on the ground, said George T. Moss, owner of the 15-room Timberland Motel in Chatom, about 60 miles north of Mobile.
"I got up this morning and my pickup was just covered," said Moss. "I'm sitting here looking out over my property, 30 or 40 acres, looking at ponds and my property, a deer. It's just real pretty."
In Pensacola, only heavy rain was falling early Friday as the area braced for possible snow.
Even a Starbucks in nearby Gulf Breeze, Fla., delayed opening. Jim Pavelic, a retiree from Chicago who relocated to Florida, made his way to the door of the store around 6:20 a.m. and read the sign noting the store would open late "due to the unprecedented weather patterns."
Pavelic couldn't believe it.
"You cannot even get a cup of coffee and it's raining," he said, laughing. "At least I don't need a snow shovel."
In Century, about 40 miles north of Pensacola, 44-year-old Steve Pace scraped some of the remnants of a brief snowfall from the hood of his truck and formed a snowball to throw at his grandson, 6-year-old Kaleb. It only snowed for about 10 minutes before giving way to rain again, but it was enough for Kaleb.
"I've only ever seen snow on TV till now," Kaleb said, smiling.
Several oceanside communities in South Carolina including Charleston — which hasn't seen recorded snowfall since January 2000 — could see between 2 and 4 inches of snow, said Jonathan Lamb, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Charleston.
And as much as 3 inches could hit Savannah, Ga., where snow was last traced in February 1996 — "and that was only 0.2 inches," Lamb said. It's been two decades since Georgia's oldest city had any notable accumulation, with 3.6 inches falling in December 1989. Normally, temperatures in February don't dip below 41 degrees.
"There's no doubt this is a significant event for us," Lamb said.
Highway patrol troopers in Texas, Alabama and several other states warned of treacherous morning commutes. Dallas police responded to 41 major traffic accidents and 132 minor ones Thursday, though no serious injuries were reported. The roof of a tire warehouse in west Dallas collapsed under the heavy snow overnight, leaving a gaping hole in the roof but causing no injuries.
American Airlines canceled about 240 flights Friday, mainly at its hub at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, airline spokesman Steve Schlachter said.
The snowfall made this the snowiest winter in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 32 seasons.
In Atlanta, Delta Air Lines canceled 1,100 flights for Friday in anticipation of as much as 2 inches of snow expected in the region. AirTran also said Friday that it was canceling more than 60 flights in or out of Atlanta because of the threat of snow.
The snow hitting the Deep South comes just a week after the first of back-to-back blizzards hit Washington, D.C. — which ended up with about 28 inches of snow — and along the Eastern Seaboard. Residents are still digging out from those storms, which forced the federal government to shut down for about a week.
I live in the South...
My mom had a hard time backing out this morning.
I hate the snow, I used to wish for it all the time, but now I hate it.
I hear the storm up in D.C. was pretty bad though. I'm quite sure my dads friend and his family were held up in their house for a long while.
In the South, we are not used to snow. We can handle ice, sleet, hail, rain, winds, tornadoes, and lightning... but snow? Forget it.
We never get actual snow... normally it's ice that looks like snow!
Amazing really, I wake up one morning to find massive amounts of snow on the lawn... this came as a shock.
Shout, Shout, Let it all Out, These are the Things I Can do Without You Shouldn't Have to Jump for Joy, You Shouldn't Have to Shout for Joy
They Give You Life and in Return You Gave 'em Hell As Cold as Ice - No Bitch, You're Ice Ice Baby I Hope We Live to Tell the Tale, I Hope We Live to Shout the Tale
Will You Never Shout? And When You've Taken Down Your Guard... If I Could Change Your Mind, I'd Really Love to Break Your Heart! Come On Let Me Shout Shout Let Me, Come On Let Me Shout Shout!
Actually my dad had a hard time as well. Our driveway was packed with snow.
Shout, Shout, Let it all Out, These are the Things I Can do Without You Shouldn't Have to Jump for Joy, You Shouldn't Have to Shout for Joy
They Give You Life and in Return You Gave 'em Hell As Cold as Ice - No Bitch, You're Ice Ice Baby I Hope We Live to Tell the Tale, I Hope We Live to Shout the Tale
Will You Never Shout? And When You've Taken Down Your Guard... If I Could Change Your Mind, I'd Really Love to Break Your Heart! Come On Let Me Shout Shout Let Me, Come On Let Me Shout Shout!
My mom had a hard time backing out this morning.
I hate the snow, I used to wish for it all the time, but now I hate it.
I hear the storm up in D.C. was pretty bad though. I'm quite sure my dads friend and his family were held up in their house for a long while.
In the South, we are not used to snow. We can handle ice, sleet, hail, rain, winds, tornadoes, and lightning... but snow? Forget it.
We never get actual snow... normally it's ice that looks like snow!
Amazing really, I wake up one morning to find massive amounts of snow on the lawn... this came as a shock.
Geez. In Ontario with -25c and 1 metre of snow we stilll go to work and school. Get a grip, silly Texan. The snow ain't gonna kill you. I'll bring you up and you'll stop complaining then! >! Geez, -3c and 5cm of snow and you people panic. Better control them self-selling and can't drive texans before they meet the ditch! I'm just teasing but you guys should toughin' up it's not much compared to how far north I've been.
Yes, but we are not used to the roads being like that.
Down south we don't get this kind of weather - so not many people are able to deal with it as they have no experience with it. Basically, we are not environmentally equipped to deal with this much snow.
Like floods for example, I've got a cousin who lives in Florida, he had to use a boat to get to some ceremony once.
I'll take golf-ball sized hail, lightning, and tornadoes over snow anyday.
Shout, Shout, Let it all Out, These are the Things I Can do Without You Shouldn't Have to Jump for Joy, You Shouldn't Have to Shout for Joy
They Give You Life and in Return You Gave 'em Hell As Cold as Ice - No Bitch, You're Ice Ice Baby I Hope We Live to Tell the Tale, I Hope We Live to Shout the Tale
Will You Never Shout? And When You've Taken Down Your Guard... If I Could Change Your Mind, I'd Really Love to Break Your Heart! Come On Let Me Shout Shout Let Me, Come On Let Me Shout Shout!
Yes, but we are not used to the roads being like that.
Down south we don't get this kind of weather - so not many people are able to deal with it as they have no experience with it. Basically, we are not environmentally equipped to deal with this much snow.
Like floods for example, I've got a cousin who lives in Florida, he had to use a boat to get to some ceremony once.
I'll take golf-ball sized hail, lightning, and tornadoes over snow anyday.
:O! So You'd rather $1000 of dollars in damage then less then a gram piece of snow hit your house? Jesus, I've heard of crazy but that's beyond insane!
PS. That article or W/ETF it is can be used to shove it in Al Gore's and other MMGW believers face. FACE! ! Let's make All make some Gore in the face of all eternity!
Actually, it was a lot of snow.
I told you, we just are not used to it. Took us by surprise as well.
Although really we don't usually get too many weather anomalies.
It all hits around spring time anyway.
Ever hear of flying south for the winter? This is why.
Shout, Shout, Let it all Out, These are the Things I Can do Without You Shouldn't Have to Jump for Joy, You Shouldn't Have to Shout for Joy
They Give You Life and in Return You Gave 'em Hell As Cold as Ice - No Bitch, You're Ice Ice Baby I Hope We Live to Tell the Tale, I Hope We Live to Shout the Tale
Will You Never Shout? And When You've Taken Down Your Guard... If I Could Change Your Mind, I'd Really Love to Break Your Heart! Come On Let Me Shout Shout Let Me, Come On Let Me Shout Shout!
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Snow Hits the Deep South (That's Rare)
! Geez, -3c and 5cm of snow and you people panic. Better control them self-selling and can't drive texans before they meet the ditch! 
I'm just teasing but you guys should toughin' up it's not much compared to how far north I've been.
in the face of all eternity!
