A winter storm was sweeping across a wide swath of the South on Friday. Atlantaβs airport issued a ground stop after a plane was evacuated onto a snowy runway.
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former presidentβs ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, βdoesnβt seem real.β
The former president had kicked off his campaign for Georgia governor at Manuelβs Tavern in Atlanta. On Sunday, workers and patrons at the bar raised a glass in his honor.