Mid-February 2014 North American winter storm of further-north Georgia received unusually heavy snows. Precipitation started as light rain late on the 10th, with significant snow by the following morning while still above freezing, turning back to light rain before ending by mid-day. More light rain began after midnight, changing to snow as temperatures fell, then to sleet, freezing rain, back to sleet again before another significant snow by the morning of the 13th. Areas north of the city generally got mostly snow and sleet, while a large swath from the south metro area eastward got the heaviest ice accumulations, though a dry slot at mid-day proved
Moneta Sleet Jr. assigned to cover her husband's funeral service, she demanded that Sleet be a part of the press pool. If he wasn't, she threatened to bar all photographers from the service. Besides his photo of Coretta Scott King, he also captured grieving widow Betty Shabazz at the funeral of her husband Malcolm X. His collection "Special Moments in African American History: The photographs of Moneta Sleet Jr. 1955-1996" was published posthumously in 1999. Sleet is the father of Gregory M. Sleet, a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Sleet, while a resident of Baldwin, NY,