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SNOWMAGEDDON! Atlanta Shut Down Entirely
Source: Personal observations. | 1/29/2014 | By Laz A. Mataz

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: algore; globalcooling; globalwarming
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To: Lazamataz; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING! Post #15 this thread.

So Laz what “ Inquiring minds want to know” is did you get screwed?? ;-)


81 posted on 01/29/2014 11:38:37 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
So Laz what “ Inquiring minds want to know” is did you get screwed?? ;-)

In both senses of the word, "I was not so screwed."

82 posted on 01/29/2014 11:42:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Jim Noble

mid 20’s, down to teens overnight. Enough that if you ran out of gas (and many did) you got in trouble.


83 posted on 01/29/2014 11:43:37 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz
 photo DSCN0102_zpsb9ad81f2.jpg I took this one a few minutes ago. This is frozen sleet not snow. The temperature outside is 24 degrees at 1:44 P.M. This is Holmes County, Florida.
84 posted on 01/29/2014 11:45:00 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Kartographer; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ..

Yes, glad you pinged to number #15. We can use these little mini-emergencies to find out HOW prepared we are. Are we sensitive enough to unfolding events to respond quickly? Is our supply loadout sufficient? Can we get to our bugout (or in my case, bug-in) location efficiently in mass panic traffic (by being ahead of the traffic wave)?

It was a very good test, and I passed — THIS time.


85 posted on 01/29/2014 11:49:00 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Man, I thought some DC-area drivers were bad in snow!

I took me 3 to 4 hours to get from Germantown, MD to Mt. Airy, MD, once in snow. The drive would normally take about 20 minutes or so.

Combined PING! and DANG!


86 posted on 01/29/2014 11:50:25 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: yarddog
I see no tank traps.

Nor do I see any severed heads on pikes.

You have a way to go yet.

87 posted on 01/29/2014 11:50:25 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

Do they even sell snow tires in that part of the world?

Remember when Jimmah was elected it froze in Georgia.


88 posted on 01/29/2014 11:53:10 AM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: Kartographer; muir_redwoods; JRandomFreeper; Marcella; Kaslin; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; ...
By the way, this traffic-load map is very informative. When it is time to go, minutes count.

If you left at 11:57, you were in good shape.

By 12:36 you mught be in trouble.

20 minutes later, by 12:57, you were so screwed.

89 posted on 01/29/2014 11:57:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: CodeToad

A Southerner’s idea of a snow tire is to scrape frost from the fridge and put it on the tire.


90 posted on 01/29/2014 11:58:16 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

How many people would have spent a far better night than what they did with nothing more than a sleeping bag, a couple of MRE’s, a flashlight and a gallon of water in their trunk?


91 posted on 01/29/2014 12:00:25 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
The water would have froze, but if they had a few army MRE heaters, that might have helped.

Yes, your point is solid.

Ours is a permissive-carry state, so there wasn't a lot of car-to-car looting.

92 posted on 01/29/2014 12:02:48 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: yarddog

93 posted on 01/29/2014 12:05:50 PM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: headsonpikes

Ping.


94 posted on 01/29/2014 12:06:37 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

coming from Central Manitoba, Canada. Ice is terrible. But.............I live north of that, and I commute everyday 45 miles one way. I always carry a snowsuit, candles, food, heat blankets, quilts etc. We get black ice in late fall and spring. Fog, snow squals, you name it.

You must be prepared for anything. And learn how to drive really really slow (because here you are more likely to get rammed from behind stopping when you can’t see, because a lot of people here are born with xray vision apparently)


95 posted on 01/29/2014 12:07:21 PM PST by blastbaby
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To: Lazamataz
I could have been worse! It could have been zombies instead of ice and snow!!!

96 posted on 01/29/2014 12:10:25 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Lazamataz

Watch from now on if their is the slightest mention of a possibility panic will be going on. Schools will be closes, people will empty grocery shelves of especially bread, milk and eggs


97 posted on 01/29/2014 12:10:44 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Lazamataz
The same thing happened in the 70's (if any since then, I'm not aware of it)

I laughed out loud ('cuz there weren't no LOL back then ... ) ... no ... I GUFFAWED !!!

98 posted on 01/29/2014 12:11:32 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Kartographer

There is a GREAT video that shows how the CGI is applied to The Walking Dead shows... amazing stuff.... let me go find it....


99 posted on 01/29/2014 12:14:00 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

That depends on what the temperature has been for the lst several days.


100 posted on 01/29/2014 12:14:25 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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