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we've seen. >> reporter: from louisiana to the carolinas, it's a deep southern freeze with closed highways, closed stores and thousands of closed schools. the kids are thrilled but many parents feel stranded in wintery misery. >> it's horrible. we've been stuck probably for about three hours. >> reporter: jackknifed tractor- trailers cause many of the hundreds of accidents. atlanta is overwhelmed. the city owns only eight snowplows. two days after the storms, check out this ice. it's an inch thick and covers most of downtown atlanta's major roads. so the city is a ghost town, frozen shut by four inches of snow and overnight temperatures in the teens will refreeze these roads. >> if you don't have to be on the road, we're advising people to stay at home. >> reporter: georgia's transportation officials warn no one should drive north of macon. that's roughly 100 miles south of atlanta. >> ice of this magnitude is just unknown for us. >> reporter: delta had to cancel almost 1,400 flights to and from atlanta today.