RALEIGH, N.C. — The snow-and-ice storm that has shut down much of the South slowly rolled toward the Northeast on Tuesday, revealing a regional culture clash along the way.

Southerners seemed resigned to waiting out winter headaches such as slick roads and paralyzed airports. But people from Ohio to New York, who face up to a foot of snow in their third blast of winter in as many weeks, were already putting pressure on state and local governments to spare them from travel tangles and snow-choked roads.

Across the South, communities remained encrusted in ice and snow for a second straight day. Road crews fared little better than in the storm’s opening hours, owing mostly to their lack of winter equipment. Frustrated motorists sat idle on slippery pavement or moved at a creep. Millions of people just stayed home.

In Atlanta, which had only 10 pieces of snow equipment when the storm hit, officials planned to bring in nearly 50 more pieces – the most resources marshaled for a storm in a decade. Mayor Kasim Reed said backup supplies of salt and sand were on the way, too.

Many schools and other institutions planned to stay closed today out of caution. The storm has been blamed for 11 deaths and many injuries.

The effects of the storm were likely to linger because continued cold temperatures will slow any melting, perhaps until the weekend.

The storm will also take an economic toll. North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said the state has already spent $26 million of the $30 million it set aside this fiscal year for storm-related cleanup expenses.

The South’s experience offered a preview of what’s in store for the Northeast, which has already had two storms to deal with in recent weeks.

Those wintry blasts included a Christmas weekend blizzard that provoked anger over the slow cleanup in New York City – where 8 to 14 inches are expected – and New Jersey.

Andre Borshch, owner of a chimney maintenance company in New York, worried that the city could come to a halt again.

“I’m not sure anybody’s going to make the right decisions,” he said. “Alaska and Canada spend six months like this, and they have no problems. But here in New York, the city doesn’t know what to do with snow.”

In New England, forecasters were predicting up to a foot across most of Connecticut and the Boston area.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino late Tuesday declared a snow emergency, which bans parking on all major streets and cancels public schools.

Tuesday evening, widespread flight cancellations moved from the South into the Northeast and Great Lakes ahead of the storm. More than 3,500 flights had been scrubbed for Tuesday and at least 1,000 more were expected to be canceled today from Atlanta to Chicago to Boston.