Photos: Best staff submissions from Snow Jam 2014

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Photos: Best staff submissions from Snow Jam 2014

Clark Atlanta University students enjoy a rare snowfall on campus.

The roadways were troublesome for many commuters on Tuesday.

Atlanta residents couldn't resist the opportunity to have some fun in the snow.

Jesse Hatcher limps away from his crashed car after he says another motorist caused him to lose control of his car and spin out off I-20 West near Conyers on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Conyers.

Traffic is at a crawl on I-20 near the Connector Tuesday evening, January 28, 2014.

A car drives slowly on I-20 westbound Tuesday evening, January 28, 2014.

Dozens of motorists become standed on Womack Road as dropping temperatures turn the hill into a sheet of ice on Tuesday night Jan. 28, 2014, in Dunwoody.

Cars slid and people walked on an icy stretch of Metropolitan Parkway in Southwest Atlanta on Tuesday night January 28, 2014.

A solitary motorist crawls up the entrance ramp from I-85 North to I-285 West in icy conditions on Tuesday night, Jan. 28, 2014, in Atlanta.

Rebecca Ganguly (from left), Daniel Ringenberg, Conn Jackson, and Etienne Bertie make the best of the snow storm in the living room of Jackson's apartment on Wednesday night, Jan. 29, 2014, in Atlanta. Conn Jackson took 10 strangers into his Vinings apartment during the snow storm and kept three of them a second day during the disaster, giving up his own bed to sleep on the floor.

Henrique Keller, from Brazil, looks over an Orlando travel magazine Wednesday afternoon January 29, 2014 after getting stuck overnight at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta. Canceled flights and long security lines had many travelers stuck at the airport following the winter storm that paralyzed the Metro.

Atlanta at dawn Wednesday: Gridlock was still the norm.

A teacher at E. Rivers Elementary school covers sleeping children in the gym Wednesday morning as school children stranded at the Atlanta school spent the night. About 115 out of 670 students inK-5th grades, and 35 staff members including some parents and bus drivers spent the night at the school. Two movies with popcorn was served after a pizza dinner from the cafeteria. Some parents were able to come during the night and retrieve their children. Some even walked.

Pedestrians cross an empty Panola Road near the I-20 entrance ramp Wednesday. The Atlanta metro area continues to suffer under the grip of snow and ice covered roads for a second day Wednesday, January 29, 2014, after a mid-day storm paralyzed the area Tuesday.

Mike Park enjoys a snowball fight with his friends at Town Center Park in Suwanee on Wednesday afternoon, January 29, 2014. The Atlanta metro area continues to suffer under the grip of snow-and-ice-covered roads after a mid-day storm paralyzed the area Tuesday.

Misty Bell, of Tucker, and her daughter Eden, 2, sled down a hill at Heritage Golf Links in Tucker on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. The Atlanta metro area continued to suffer under the grip of snow-and-ice-covered roads after a mid-day storm paralyzed the area Tuesday.

Scene from Northside Parkway and I-275 on Thursday morning.

Truck driver Ernesto Dominguez takes a shovel to the ice covering a hill on Pope Road in Douglasville where he had been stuck for five hours Thursday, January 30, 2014. Even a heavy-duty tow truck started sliding backwards when it tried to pull his truck up the hill.

Contractors, volunteers and members of the Georgia National Guard clear a car that was blocking the road, preventing a salt truck from treating a hill on Northside Drive Thursday, January 30, 2014.

Traffic moving on Friday morning. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

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Clark Atlanta University students enjoy a rare snowfall on campus.

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