Atlanta, Georgia (CNN)--temperatures have slowly warming Thursday in the South, where freezing rain icy roads with ice, but a sprawling winter storm system remained in place in the upper Plains States.
The National Weather Service issued and advice for the States of more than a dozen of winter storm warnings. The largest part of the system is on the verge of hitting the Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia, but several inches of snow are planned for portions of Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina and Minnesota and Dakota. Advice weather winter stretched in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In Kentucky, up to a quarter inch of ice may accumulate on the roads, the weather service warned, in addition to snow fell earlier. Three to six inches of snow was planned for Eastern Virginia.
Fixed low-pressure system path iced to the North the Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi Wednesday. Scores of road traffic injuries were reported on Wednesday night and Thursday at the beginning.
"I've slipped personally by two intersections," a traveller said in Cherokee County Northwest Atlanta. "I've spun on a few occasions."
"I grew up in Chicago, for the love of God," said another driver. "It's an absolute disaster".
However, no significant fault accompany Georgia winter time. Less than 500 customers were without power for about 11 a.m. Thursday, reported Georgia Power.
Delays have been reported to Washington Reagan airport and Airport International of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Thursday, according to the website of the Federal Aviation Administration flight status.
"Winter temperatures in the Southeast and Midwest hit trip, to and from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota's South, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky," said notice Wednesday on the site Web of Delta Airlines, the largest carrier in Atlanta.
AirTran Airways has warned that the winter weather could result in flight delays and cancellations, according to a statement of the company.
AirTran passengers expected to travel to or from Atlanta, Georgia, between 7 p.m. Wednesday and noon Thursday will be allowed to change their booking without penalty until the trip is completed within three days of the originally scheduled departure date, said the statement.
Up to a half-inch of ice has been called to accumulate in Kentucky and Tennessee and North Mississippi and Alabama, increase the risk of power lines on the ground for the residents of the region, the National Weather Service said.
Two people died in a shipwreck on a bridge of ice in Alabama on Wednesday, said officials, and another died in a car accident in Mississippi.
Areas of Minnesota, Ohio to New York saw more than a foot of snow in the last few days.
Difficult weather conditions blocked about 300 people at Canada Tuesday after a local official called the most brutal storm struck the region of Ontario more than two decades.
Some people were blocked in their vehicles more than 24 hours after entassé snow blinded so high that open the doors of the vehicle is almost impossible.
By Wednesday, the officials said that the world had been rescued.
Tuesday, depressions records were put Virginia in Florida. Temperatures were 30 degrees below average for this time of year.
Cold air persisted again Thursday morning with Frost warnings displayed as as Boca Raton, Florida.
But winter Florida fruits and vegetables have survived until now the frigid temperatures without too much damage, representatives from industry, said on Tuesday.CNN's Ed Payne, Vivian Kuo and Ashley Hayes has contributed to this report.
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