Air travel is returning to normal after winter weather disrupted flights at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The storm, which brought snow and ice to the Southeast from Houston, Texas, to Georgia, caused over 1,400 flight delays and cancellations in Atlanta.
Historic amounts of snow and ice snarled road travel across the state on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Some South Georgia locations reported six to nine inches.
Snow fell in central Georgia, including Macon, which hasn’t seen snow in seven years. The same is true for Savannah, where some residents decided to make the most of the city’s snowfall by sledding kids down quiet streets. Beach scenes turned into snowscapes in the coastal Georgia city.
Meanwhile, South Georgia’s Crisp County may have set a new snowfall record on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock reported that his department measured seven inches of snow in Cordele just before midnight.
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