NEW YORK (AP) — CNN’s Carol Costello was more than prepared for her contentious live interview with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Wednesday, having spent frustrating hours caught in the epic traffic snarls caused by the rare Southern snowstorm.

Unlike other motorists, Costello wasn’t stranded overnight in her car, but it took two tries and more than three hours for her to drive two miles to her home Tuesday from the news network’s Atlanta headquarters.