Posted on 01/29/2014 5:09:35 AM PST by Pan_Yan
The blizzard of '93 brought more snow than most Atlanta natives had ever seen or will see.
The floods of 2009 brought an unexpected rush of water that submerged interstates.
The winter storm of 2011 took an entire week away from the city.
But the Snow Jam of 2014 might be the single craziest weather day in Atlanta in a generation.
1-to-3 inches of snow, mixed in with an afternoon drive that still hasn't ended has brought Atlanta to its knees again.
“There are certain things we don’t have control over and one of those is the weather. This came rather unexpectedly," Governor Nathan Deal said. "The time frame in which it hit was a very short time frame. And I think we’re better prepared now than we were in 2011.”
Metro Atlanta interstates have been gridlocked since about 1 p.m. Tuesday. Commutes stretched 8-to-10 hours. And that's for those who actually got home.
Thousands have been stranded in their cars just sitting in the middle of the road.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbradio.com ...
You do NOT want to lose power (and heat) with temperatures in the single digits.
We’ve got about a foot in VA Beach. About 36” blown up against my front door. Nice day to sit by the fire and read some Bernard Cornwell or Patrick O’Brian.
Im within walking distance of our local county elementary school 1/4 mile where they have a generator and are probably housing and feeding stranded motorists as usual..
they did a great job in 1993 during the Mother of all Snowstorms...
I cant count on my neighbors with their propane heat this time...just in case...
Weve had weeks of freezing weather and the propane ran out and was hard to find...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You’re right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Who’d have thought thirty year ago we’d all be sittin’ here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A cup o’ cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a cracked cup, an’ all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness, son”.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, ‘e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, ‘e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin’. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, ‘alf the floor was missing, and we were all ‘uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t’ corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin’ in a corridor! Would ha’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say ‘house’ it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our ‘ole in the ground; we ‘ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t’ shoebox in t’ middle o’ road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of ‘ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick road clean wit’ tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit’ bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won’t believe you.
ALL:
They won’t!
I drive on ice everyday, it’s not bad, just drive to conditions and of course proper tires makes a big difference.
Patrick O’Brian
about Aubrey ???
I love those books...
In Oregon years ago we had snow tires and chains...
but I hated driving on ice..
we still had to go to work..
We lose power frequently during the winter here in Red
Hampshire...your bedding ‘absorbs’ the cold when it gets down to thirty degrees in your house. NOT fun. That is one of the reasons we are desperate to get back to East Tennessee. :-)
Yes, if I need to work, or I don’t get paid heh.
The hills right where I am aren’t near as bad as OR though.
What works better than any salt is to scrape the snow and then use a broadcast spreader to spread cheap clay cat litter on the driveway. It provides traction, it absorbs moisture and turns dark so that when the sun hits it it warms just enough to melt any residual snow and/or ice.
I’ve been doing this for years and with about 4-6 hours of exposure to the sun the driveway is melted, in a day it is dry. Much better than salt and cheaper ($3.50 for 25 lb).
We don’t lose power as much as we used to ..
now only during tornados or high winds or if something falls on the lines or a substation gets wiped out...
I haven’t lost power all winter..\
Crossed fingies and toesies..
What part of East TN..
the snow is up and down and all over...
I was through NH in June with a granddaughter...
Its lovely..
We only passed thru in one day from Albany NY to Maine and down to Boston...
I was in the military..
I would have been AWOL :)
I live in Atlanta. All the weather forecasts were for a dusting of snow. The forecasts shifted starting yesterday morning. EVERYONE let people/kids go around 1-2 pm and it just became gridlock. I was fortunate and it only took me 3 hours to get home. A guy that works for me left at 1:00 and it took him two hours to get to his kids school. Then traffic became gridlocked and he had to abandon his car and walk the final four miles home and he got home at 10:45 last night. A coworkers wife left downtown at noon and left her car at 11:00 last night and went to a hotel that was taking people in.
We just are not prepared for this weather because it just doesn’t happen that often. The impact of this is that schools will be very gunshy and close based in a forecast. Northerners will laugh but it’s better than this disaster.
went to a hotel that was taking people in.
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that’s because the hotels were getting cancellations all day from people who could fly or drive into Atlanta...
there was plenty of room and the best thing to do..
who COULDNT fly or drive into Atlanta...
The many times I have asked the exact same - crickets.
some of the gridlock would have been people getting out to go look at the snow...
we had people up and down our road all day after the snowplow had gone through..
they did slow down and creep along but it was still snowing and I wouldn’t have ventured out myself..
today the road is slushy due to the salt but if it freezes tonight it will be a sheet of ice
Uh no every room was booked everywhere. They set up banquet rooms to take people in.
Mayor of Atlanta new conference is in rope a dope mode.
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