Living in the North means learning to deal with seasonal snow fall. It means practicing in an empty parking lot when the first few inches fall. Equipping snow tires and knowing just how quickly one can safely go when the white stuff starts falling is seemingly ingrained into the DNA of Yankee drivers. That, along with our fleets of snow plows and salt trucks, makes it easy to shake our heads and chuckle when our Southern friends get a dusting of powder that shuts down entire towns. What's happening south of the Mason-Dixon now, though, is not funny at all. Snow, freezing rain and perilously low temperatures have embraced the southern US for the second time this year, and the results for motorists have been catastrophic, with traffic jams lasting over night.
CNN reports on one woman, Rebekah Cole, whose nine-mile drive home started Tuesday afternoon and had run well into Wednesday morning. She was only half way there. Cole described the epic jam as something out of a "zombie movie."
