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Motorists slide off the road along Garst Mill Road in Roanoke County, Va. during a snowstorm on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Icy roads remain a concern Friday morning and some school systems decided to open late.

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Commuters on 419 drive through heavy snowfall and low visibility on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 in Roanoke County, Va. Icy roads remain a concern Friday morning and some school systems decided to open late.

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Erin Hull, of Winston-Salem, uses gift cards from her wallet to scrape ice and snow off her car before going to work Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Hull says she would have used her ice scraper, but it was inside her frozen-shut trunk.

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City of Huntsville workers set up road blocks on Green Mountain Road while a salt truck clears the road during a brief winter storm which brought light snow and icy roads to north Alabama Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 in Huntsville, Ala. A winter storm made its way across the Southeast on Thursday, dumping snow in states recovering from days of rain, playing a role in at least one fatality, and leaving thousands without power.

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Hundreds of students gathered at the quad of the University of Alabama campus on Thursday Jan. 17, 2012 as heavy snowfall coated Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Children play in the snow Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. A winter storm was making its way across the Southeast on Thursday, dumping 4 inches of snow in Mississippi and playing a role in a traffic fatality there, with the system expected to spread across northern Georgia and into the Carolinas and Virginia, according to the National Weather Service.

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Hundreds of people spent a cold night trapped on Interstate 65 in central Alabama as a winter storm dumped snow around the Southeast and caused at least one death. Hundreds of cars and 18-wheelers were at a standstill on the highway early Friday, County emergency management director Phyllis Little said. "There are hundreds of vehicles on the interstate northbound," Little said Friday morning. "Until we get enough sunlight or warmer temperatures I don't see it changing."