Posted on 01/29/2014 7:22:03 AM PST by Lazamataz
Atlanta, Georgia was covered with what, in other parts of the country, might be considered a light dusting of snow. Approximately one to three inches of snow fell since noon Tuesday, and continued until about 5:00PM that same day.
Due to poor planning, bad decisions by employers and school officials, and slow reaction by commuters, a gridlock has happened that put the entire Metro area, and many major highways, entirely out of commission.
There are reports of some people who have been in their cars, stationary, for as many as 16 hours -- including one person who reports being on the road 21 hours. Many motorists have run out of gasoline, and quite a few commuters abandoned their vehicles to go into local restaurants and stores to keep warm.
HERO rescue trucks and salt-spreading vehicles have found it impossible to perform their duties due to the complete gridlock. Various city and county officials cannot predict when the crisis will ease.
It is estimated that 100,000 to as many as 250,000 people have been stranded overnight, and since the prediction is for no temperature increase over freezing (except for briefly midday) there is no estimate to when the gridlock will ease.
Road conditions are called 'extremely slick and very icy' and many accidents have been reported.
Hey! Whats wrong with sleeping in on a cold snowy day and then waking up to a breakfast of french toast!!! ;-)
Yeah, we had a string of days < 30 so the ground held no latent heat.
Heads on pikes?
Tank traps?
You must be thinking of another Yarddog.
That's the way I heard it too. Less than an inch in North Fulton County where I live, and 1-3 inches in Coweta County where I work.
Today, the press has come down with a chronic case of revisionist history and are now saying that they predicted this all along and that the Republican governor should have done something to prevent this disaster.
One point the governor made which anyone with a semi-smart phone can relate to is the traffic app maps. At noon, every interstate hwy in the entire metro area was green. By 12:37, every one of them was red. It happened that fast.
*Sigh*.
Two inches here and they don’t even break out the plows.
Thanks for posting that. At 12:36, I found myself spinning out on I-85 North in South Fulton. We ended up on the shoulder facing the wrong way. From that point on, it was serious.
Oh my goodness! Hubby was just reading his Twitter feed. Children’s Hospital in Birmingham is out of food! That is crazy! And the nurses are stuck there which is no big deal because the place has laundry facilities and what not. But running out of food is crazy! There is also a problem with nurses coming into the hospital. So the nurses who had day shift yesterday are still holding down the fort. I am so glad our son is out of that place! It is a beautiful facility. The nurses are mostly wonderful. And that is all I have to say about that!
I don’t know how accurate the Tweets are.
I’d have planned ahead.
See, Wed Nest Day is ladies night.
I would rented me a shack up place near “The Umderground “ and I’d go ice fishing beginning around Happy Hour.
And yes, I’m just like that....
Giddy Yup!
Oh, right, you're the one with the Robot Dobermanns and the claymore mines!
My bad.
If I recall, there was a situation in N about 15 years ago when there were plenty of snow plows, but only one operator. I was joyfully stuck on my farm for 9 days. The only drawback was that I was running out of books to read.
Same in Nor Cal.
Dang. California Dreamin on such a winters day
Well, fer sure it won’t be anything like private retirement plans all Jurge Booysh.
All they did was productize the name of their proposal.
This will be the next big push, privatizing retirement.
How novel of the Nobles next
Noblese Oblidge
Naw, you missed it again.
I am the Yarddog with the pellet guns, big sticks and a lab who sleeps through anything and barks at no one.
He will lick you in the face if you somehow manage to wake him tho.
You sure you’re not the Reptilian alien yarddog with the killer bees and the proton bombs raining down from orbit?
HomeDepot.com had a sale on generators yesterday. Rather timely, putting the other half in a mood conducive to getting one. Ordered a propane 4000W model.
Sub-freezing. Easy way to die if stuck in a metal box with no fuel and wearing just office-commute attire.
No, you are thinking of the other Reptilian alien yarddog with the killer bees and the proton bombs raining down from orbit.
People mistake him for me all the time.
It wasn’t the snow, it was that the snow melted then froze into ice. Freak confluence of temperature patterns with rare precipitation.
We need to have lunch again soon.
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