MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) -- There was still a little snow on the ground in Montgomery on Wednesday. Yet farther down south, cities are doing what they can to fight or embrace the snow and ice.
"In the morning, I saw a few flurries," said Merritt Kopec, a resident of Daphne. "And I was like, 'OK, this is it. This is all we're going to get. There's no way we're going to see what they say we're going to see.' Then a few hours later, it started piling up on the ground, and I was like, 'OK.'"
While she and her family were stuck inside Wednesday, Kopec said her son took it all in.
"Even the sun hitting our roads, the snow is melting, but then it's not melting enough to where it's completely okay to drive," Kopec explained. "So all the schools have been closed."
About two-and-half hours northeast in Opp, residents were encouraged to stay off the roads. But Lisa Castaldo, an executive operations officer with the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, said road conditions are getting better.
"It'll be one for the history books," Castaldo said. "I think that they're still adding it up to the totals and doing the work after the storm, but it is definitely a historic snowfall for parts of Alabama."
Castaldo stressed for everyone to use caution when traveling.
"Please heed the warnings of your local officials," Castaldo said. "We are starting to see those conditions ease up from the snowfall and the icing, but we are still going to be experiencing some really cold conditions."
Jeff Whatley with the Alabama Rural Electric Association said less than 2,000 members lost power because of the storm. He said they get more outages from people sliding into poles on icy roads rather than just snow alone.
"A dry snow versus wet snow was a saving grace for us because a dry snow will fall off the limb, where wet snow will stick," Whatley said. "Same way with the wire."
James Gordon with the Alabama Department of Transportation said it is putting down salt and plowing the snow after it melts, but some of it could turn into ice Wednesday night.
"It's probably best to change those travel plans mainly because we're still dealing with this probably this evening, tomorrow morning, all-day Thursday," Gordon said. "We don't see things getting back to normal probably until Friday."
Castaldo said to be careful using space heaters in your home and spending time outside with the extremely cold temperatures.