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The South is completely unprepared to deal with icy roads, and the officials really dropped the ball. I imagine they will get appointments to the Obama administration for their incompetence.
/johnny
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
One of my Facebook friends last night was discussing his drive from Daytona Beach to Houston. He said he was trying to avoid driving through New Orleans because “they aren’t as prepared for ice storms as they are for hurricanes.”
If their response to Katrina was any indication, Nawlins is gonna be TOTALLY PWNED by an ice storm...
I’m in Connecticut and driving in snow and on ice is hard. I don’t poke fun at southerners for making the reasonable decision not to do what you have no experience doing. I wish such thinking were more common generally.
I think the problem is unequal distribution of snow removal equipment. Is it fair that Minneapolis and Buffalo should have so much, and Atlanta hardly anything?? I think Obama should develop a WH task force to address this immediately!!
Seriously, even though we’re shivering up here in Pittsburgh in sub-zero weather, I do have sympathy for y’all stuck on the roads down there in Atlanta. I don’t know how I could have handled a 16-hour commute. I hope everyone got home ok.
A blonde woman was in a snowstorm and got lost. But she remembered what her father had told her to wait until a snow plow came along and to follow it. Sure enough a little while later a snow plow did come along so whe started to follow it. After a while the snow plow driver got out of his truck and said, “I’m finished with the Wal-Mart parking lot but you can follow me over to Home Depot if you want.”
I am in the middle of the Florida Panhandle. Right now it is 22 degrees outside. Ice hanging on tree limbs and the ground is covered with ice.
Not much traffic but the highway looks clear except some ice on the shoulders. I did go outside to take some pictures and noticed slippery ice as soon as I got out of the garage.
Look at the bright side, Laz.
The snow will freeze the zombies in place for easy dispatch.
From WIKI:
“Kasim Reed Mayor of AtlantaMuhammad Kasim Reed is the 59th Mayor of Atlanta; he was officially inaugurated on January 4, 2010. A Democrat, he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002 and represented ... “
No doubt a close relative of that great mayor (NOT) ray nagin..............probaly cuzinz. Yo.
Don’t complain, its hotter than Hell.
Hell MI weather.
So Ray Nagin is the mayor of Atlanta now?
It was a crazy night! I think the biggest problem is Cobb and Fulton closing schools early. All the paniced working parents flooded the roads and there was gridlock. Had there been no school, I think yesterday afternoon would have been very different. Have loved hearing the stories of neighbors helping neighbors and people pulling together to make the best of things.
Somehow, to report that Atlanta is unprepared, must be racist. When does FEMA pour some deficit dollars into the snow drifts?
See what happens when we fail to name the storms?
Oh Suzanna
Now don’t you cry for me
For I’ve gone on down to Georgia
For a couple of days to ski....
Say what you will about Southern California.
My East Coast and Southern relatives are always asking when I’m moving out.
High today: 77 degrees and my Washington navel oranges are ripe.
THAT’S why I’m not moving.