oh ! the huge.manatee
Carry chains in your 4x4?
Agree.
I have that “electronic cottage” in my home.
In the DC area today there was a slight dusting. Knowing the transplant idiots that come to this city (particularly from the south who have no idea how to handle snow) I prudently worked at home rather then venture to the office.
The fact that anyone with a laptop and internet connection commutes to an office anymore is ridiculous
If I know a big storm is coming that will really tie up traffic, I take my computer home the night before and work from home.
A better lesson from the storm:
Chick-fil-A gives free food to motorists stranded in Southern snowstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117140/posts
Once Chick-Fil-a determined that stranded drivers, stuck in their cars for nearly seven hours, went without food or water, the Chick-fil-A staff went into action, cooking several hundred sandwiches then braving the icy storm to hand out the sandwiches.
Chick-Fil-a staffers braved the falling snow and ice, slipping and sliding, as they offered their famous hot juicy chicken breasts tucked between two buttered buns. Chick-fil-A refused to take a single penny for their sandwiches. The meal was a gift – no strings attached.
At least we got the Lead outta gasoline.
How about the lesson is that not everything can predicted.
Atlanta is rather far south.
On the other hand, I believe it is at the highest elevation of any East Coast city. Hard to understand how they can be THIS totally unprepared.
The lesson I see is if there’s weather inbound to your area that your area almost never gets, things will be crazy, try to stay home (electric cottage, call in sick, whatever it takes).
The problem with telecommuting is that anything that can be done from your home and an Internet connection can be done by some guy in Mumbai or Bangalore from HIS Internet connection.
Wait until management finds out who costs less!
Maybe the drivers thought they could cheat their way thru the snow.
Of course, cheating didn’t work out so well for those Atlanta teachers either.
Sales of Evil 4x4 SUV’s and Subaru’s are going to SOAR now.
This generation has had to lean, the hard way, the lesson that we learned in the winters of 78,79, and 81.
No matter how politically-correct that little hybrid sh*tbox you are driving is, is that political correctness worth killing you or your family over?
I never cease to be amazed at how many government employees at every level are referred to as non-essential when it comes to not reporting for work for any number of reasons. If they are non-essential, why are they even on the payroll?
OTOH I’ve never understood why any company in the service industry thinks employees have to commute to an expensive office building to work every day. Call centers for every business could easily be located totally in the U.S. and allow the employees to have a computer and work from home.
Of course there is always personal responsibility.... My daughter and her husband both took the day off. The weather was in fast and furious here in the north and neither one of them wanted to try and navigate what they knew would be out there.
Because we Georgians were warned well ahead of time, each of us could have made different choices
oh ! the huge.manatee
The biggest problem is that Atlanta is one little fender-bender away from a major traffic snarl on a good day. As one trucker stated on the CB a few years ago, “too many cars, not enough asphalt”.
It’s a problem when the population density becomes too great. Too many high-rise offices that the road system just can’t feed.
Atlanta’s too big.
Did I mention that I HATE driving through Atlanta?
Lesson?
BUG.
OUT.
BAG.
That’s what it’s for: wherever you are, whatever the situation, you’re on your own and you MUST get home, or otherwise survive for up to 3 days, under adverse conditions.
When Glenn Burns comes on the night before and tells you the sky is falling stay the eff home. He’s only been doing this for over 30 years. He’s always right.
The fact that any schools were allowed to open yesterday is insane. We don’t have the equipment or obviously the brains to deal with snow. Its the South.