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Cars are left in a vacant church parking lot as drivers abandoned their vehicles and walked home or found shelter nearby on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. A winter storm caught much of Alabama off guard and thousands of people spent the night at work, school, and on roadways in their cars. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 65 northbound as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in Hoover, Ala. Overnight, the South saw fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders. Jackknifed 18-wheelers littered Interstate 65 in central Alabama. Ice shut down bridges on Florida's panhandle and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, one of the world's longest spans, in Louisiana. Some commuters pleaded for help via cellphones while still holed up in their cars, while others trudged miles home, abandoning their vehicles outright. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)
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Icicles hang off a camellia bush in historic Forsyth Park after freezing rain hit the area, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. A winter storm brought snow, ice and brutal cold to the Deep South, a part of the country more accustomed to hurricanes. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on the environment on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Martens says his agency has “absolutely no plans” to issue permits for shale gas drilling and fracking in the 2014-15 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on the environment on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Martens says his agency has “absolutely no plans” to issue permits for shale gas drilling and fracking in the 2014-15 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on the environment on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Martens says his agency has “absolutely no plans” to issue permits for shale gas drilling and fracking in the 2014-15 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Fracking opponent Alex Neill Jr. of Guilford, N.Y., holds a sign as New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on the environment on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Martens says his agency has “absolutely no plans” to issue permits for shale gas drilling and fracking in the 2014-15 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Fracking opponents hold signs as New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, center, testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on the environment on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Martens says his agency has “absolutely no plans” to issue permits for shale gas drilling and fracking in the 2014-15 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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A Photo released Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities is of a lone highway sign standing above the closed Richardson Highway, near Valdez, Alaska, on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. Two major avalanches and some smaller ones dumped snow Friday along 27 miles of the Richardson Highway, closing the only road access to Valdez, Alaska, the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline. (AP Photo/Alaska DOT&PF)
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APhoto released Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities and made on Jan. 25, 2014, is of snow and ice covering the closed Richardson Highway, near Valdez, Alaska. One of a number of avalanches covered the roadway in the Keystone Canyon, closing the only road access to Valdez, the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaska authorities said snow 40 feet deep and 1,000 to 1,500 feet long covered the highway. (AP Photo/Alaska DOT&PF)
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A aerial photo released Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities and made on Jan. 25, 2014,shows the path of an avalanche above the closed Richardson Highway, at Mile 39 near Valdez, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation announced crews had begun removing snow from the major slide, one of many that have blocked the highway, the only road access to Val;dez, the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline.(AP Photo/Alaska DOT&PF)
