Snow closes schools in south Arkansas, Deep South
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 12, 2010 at 11:20 a.m.
PHOTO BY AP / ROGELIO V. SOLIS
Dixie Manning and her dog Everest take their morning walk in the snow and ice that coat Jackson, Miss., on Friday morning.
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South Arkansas students got a day off from classes, thanks to the latest winter weather system to move through the state.
Schools from Texarkana to Junction City closed today after 1 to 3 inches of snow accumulated, making the roads slick. Temperatures were forecast to rise above freezing this afternoon but drop below freezing overnight, creating an ice hazard.
The snow fell from Polk County, where Mena got 3 inches, to Desha County, where Dumas recorded an inch.
In the Camden and Hot Springs areas, 1 1/2 inches of snow fell, but Little Rock was spared any additional precipitation. Students in the Pulaski County School District had classes on Friday, the first day this week the district had school.
Flakes continued to fall from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and 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.
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.
American Airlines canceled about 240 flights Friday, mainly at its hub at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, airline spokesman Steve Schlachter said.
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.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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Winfield says... February 12, 2010 at 10:40 p.m.
So much for global warming, eh?
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