Jack Frost pays North Florida a visit

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. North Florida residents awoke on Wednesday to a world of white, with some snow continuing to fall into the early morning hours, a phenomenon rarely experienced in the Sunshine State. The potentially historic winter storm, as meteorologists were calling it, swept through the Gulf Coast region beginning on Tuesday afternoon and into Wednesday morning, leaving a blanket of white on the ground, icing roads and bridges, frosting vegetation, and causing sporadic power outages in some areas, as ice accumulated on power lines and tree limbs. Early on Wednesday morning, this reporter took a walk around his rural neighborhood. The world lay silent at that early