“I slept for an hour and it was not comfortable,” Troy said. “Most people sat the entire night with no food, no water, no bathroom. We saw people who had children. It was a dire situation.”
After daybreak, a few good Samaritans appeared, going car-to-car with bottles of water and cookies. Traffic started moving again about 8:30.
At Atlanta’s Deerwood Elementary School, librarian Brian Ashley spent Tuesday night with a dozen of his colleagues and 35 children on cots in the gym.
The teachers and other staff members opened up the pantry in the cafeteria, making pizza and chicken nuggets with carrots and apples for dinner. Later, some police officers dropped off sandwiches, and parents living nearby brought food.
“The kids slept peacefully through the night,” Ashley said. “They knew that there were people around them that cared about them.”
However, Ashley said officials never should have allowed the schools to open Tuesday.
“They were forewarned about the weather, and they were ill-prepared,” he said. “If schools were canceled yesterday, we would not have had the catastrophe we did last night and today.”
About 1,000 arrivals and departures were
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