Posted on 01/30/2014 11:12:17 AM PST by Kartographer
It’s likely not the birthday celebration James Freeman wished for.
The Rome, Ga., resident spent Tuesday — his 31st birthday — slogging across 72 miles of icy metro-Atlanta roads for 12 hours after leaving Norcross at 2:30 p.m.
“Some called it ‘Snowpocalypse,’ others ‘Snowmageddon.’ I called it my birthday,” Freeman shared in a first-person account he wrote for Yahoo News on Thursday.
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Southern folk are great...but are total idiots behind the wheel.
Or forget all that (it is, after all, a southern state) and just make sure you’ve got a half-tank of gas if there’s a forecast of a winter storm?
It’s not like you’re not going to use the gas in the near future if nothing happens.
You are among the group who makes those outrageous comments about preppers as though preppers love it when someone gets in trouble without preps. No prepper I know has thirty days of canned food and enough guns and ammo to wipe out a small town in their car.
I am a prepper and have a prepared backpack in my car. It is INSURANCE and you bet I encourage people to have that insurance in their car. You have insurance on your house and insurance on your car, so why not have survival insurance for yourself in your car? It's not a big deal to do it, so why not?
When Rita was coming through Galveston and Houston and my town, highway 45 was jammed with cars who were stopped in heat and most had no water or food in their cars and people died on that highway. The stoppage was all the way to Dallas. Did you get that - people died. I will never stop encouraging people to have a prepared backpack in their car. If I save one person from dying, it is worth it as it just takes my typing letters of the alphabet to encourage them to do that.
In this area, you can count on a hurricane coming through here and if you miss a year, that's great, but they will come again. And, yes, my car stays at least half full all the time.
I want everyone to live, don't you?
Greta had some young mom on last night who was going on and on about how traumatized she was, because she was separated from her 8 month old baby for 36 hours and how worried she was about the baby and all she went through to reunite with her baby. Except the baby was with this lady’s MOTHER. Seriously, if in an emergency situation, you can’t leave your baby with your own mother for a day and a half without coming unhinged with worry, you’ve got bigger problems than the weather.
“I don’t know. They didn’t say.
Maybe they figure the governor is more powerful, and is more likely to be able to control the weather.”
The mayor is black. To blame him would be racist.
Did the local news bump weather to the top story??
Wonder if the local weather people are annoyed their winter storm warning was ignored??
How quaint, taking yet another opportunity to ridicule folks who prepare for the curveballs in life.
What a stupid generalization.
“Except the baby was with this lady’s MOTHER.”
You are thinking with a clear mind in a safe place. People who haven’t gone through an emergency, are likely to get frantic and panic and they don’t have clear minds to think things through. I also heard that lady and it’s true her baby was safe, but the lady was in panic and not thinking clearly.
Yes. But who is to blame for making it snow?
Have you thought about adding a Henry survival rifle, or some other iteration of the AR-7?
Sometimes the "home" you need to prep is your car.
but totally accurate.
GA FReeper ping; another Snowpocalypse story.
Some people can barely afford tires much less snow tires. Some things are more important than the extras. People live in apartments so where will they store stuff they just might need years down the road. Do not be so critical until you have walked in their shoes. We have seen how northerners handle heat waves, too. I am never critical of how people react to unusual circumstances. I know what to do in snow or ice——stay off the roads if possible. I remember Christmas, 2004. We had a huge ice storm. We drove from here to TN, back here to get on 72 to Memphis. The scenery was gorgeous but very dangerous but we made it without any trouble. Our grandson had gone days earlier and when we got there he was helping others out of ditches, etc. My husband was driving thankfully. One lane was open. Some drive way to fast on snowy, icy roads. It is not a time for racing.
No. It is not accurate.
And alcohol if she drinks... Just damn
From your comments I would guess that when the SHTF you will just sit on your butt and wait for fedgov to bring you water and MRE’s. Good luck with that.
You’ve just proven the point I was making. If this is all it takes to get her to a panicked and frantic state of mind, she’s got bigger issues. Unfortunately, it’s this type of person who in their panicked state tends to do something without thinking it all the way through and ends up injuring or killing either themselves or somebody else.
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