The South STILL in chaos 24 hours after just TWO INCHES of snow: Roads jammed with thousands of abandoned cars as backlash begins over why politicians were so ill-prepared

• Many drivers still stranded in their cars in Alabama and Georgia 24 HOURS after the snow storm began
  
• Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal blames 'Mother Nature' and poor weather forecasting after thousands stranded
  
• Residents outraged that more precautions weren't taken after a similar storm disaster in 2011
  
• Six dead in traffic accidents, including five in Alabama, and four people were killed early on Tuesday in a Mississippi mobile home fire blamed on a faulty space heater
• Airlines canceled thousands of flights at airports from Houston to Atlanta, with some 500 halted early on Wednesday at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest
• Ice shuts down bridges on Florida's panhandle and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, one of the world's longest spans, in Louisiana
• More than 1,000 fender-benders reported as 90 buses full of schoolchildren stuck on the roads overnight in Atlanta
  
• Baby girl born on gridlocked highway in Atlanta, Georgia
• Governors of the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi declare states of emergency