Atlanta is shut down -- businesses, roads, government in general -- and while that's generated furor among residents, the angst is exacerbated by the overnight uncertainty involving many of the city's cubs. Across the state, and even extending into Alabama, there were reports of children spending the night in schools, their parents or school buses unable to navigate treacherous conditions that Georgia Department of Public Safety Commissioner Col. Mark McDonough said caused almost 1,000 accidents in the Georgia capital alone. Fifty Atlanta students remained on school buses overnight, and seven of them still weren't home by 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green said.
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All Atlanta kids are either home or headed that way, school spokeswoman says
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Georgia, Alabama students stuck at school, on buses as weather hammers South
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District: In Hoover, Alabama, about 4,000 students sheltered in schools Wednesday
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Dad walked 6 miles to elementary school to spend night with daughter
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