I gather the problem is from very thick ice, rather then snow.
It is still hard to understand how it could have gotten that far out of hand.
Here in Maryland I can drive in many inches of snow as long as the others are not on the road,
They either drive 20 creating backups or then end up in a ditch.
Why didn’t Obama just stand outside and command the winds and the snow to cease?! Doesn’t he CARE that people are dying?
And by the way, where the hell is FEMA while this storm makes people suffer?
Most of Atlanta is very hilly...and all the salt and plows won’t help if the road freezes quickly. No matter how well people drive, going uphill on an icy road can be impossible
A few facts keep getting left out: the NWS issued a winter storm warning at 4am telling people that the snow would start mid morning and to stay off the roads. But the temperature dropped even faster than the NWS thought it would. The previous day was warm and the initial snow melted and refroze. Traffic did not help and traffic was going to be bad even without the snow.
We had a similar incident in Raleigh in 2005.
Forecasters predicted light dusting, no sticking. Even as it was sticking they were telling us it wasn’t. Only about 1-1/2” actually fell. and it stuck. It had been cold for a day or two.
People started leaving work around 2 pm. Streets were untreated, no plowing.
The first few folks had no trouble but the snow was compacted down into ice.
By the time officials decided to let schools out most of the road were ice and gridlocked. Too late. Kids slept in school. People spent the night in their cars stuck on the thoroughfares. Eight, twelve hours wasn’t unusual.
This round of weather the schools were closed Tues. with zero precip. coming in until evening.
Officials were overcautious this time.
When the snow fall increased and the temperature dropped the entire city turned to a sheet of ice in less than 60 minutes. This was not the typical snowfall in Minnesota where the ground has been frozen for the last 12 years. When the entire city goes from zero to gridlocked in 90 minutes there is not much any road crew can do.
Considering the proportion of welfare piglets in that city, I’m not surprised at the lack of resourcefulness.
Stuff like that will humble the hung-ho "I've been driving in snow all my life" types, whether they will admit it or not. Nowadays, the storm-stricken vehicles in the medians or ditches up here in cornfield country are as likely to be SUVs or large pickups as sedans, and it isn't because they can't handle snow, but because they slide on snot like anything else despite giving their operators that bulletproof feeling.
Mr. niteowl77
The mayor says he takes responsibility........talk is cheap
What is the mayor going to do.......resign?
All those cold buses with all those school children should not have been left out on the roads and at the mercy of the elements
This is the South! ..we don’t have the machines or the wherewithall to counter the rare occurances of ice and snow.....
We use to have common sense to know to stay home.....especially the schools would alert folks over the radio and Tv
When I was in school in rural Tennessee it was a rare day to be caught at school if inclement weather struck........and if so, at the first flakes of snow (knowing how quickly the roads freeze)
Those county buses were lining up post haste to get us home.......and most of us lived on or traveled through hilly, steep areas.
The mayor says he takes responsibility........talk is cheap
What is the mayor going to do.......resign?
All those cold buses with all those school children should not have been left out on the roads and at the mercy of the elements
This is the South! ..we don’t have the machines or the wherewithall to counter the rare occurances of ice and snow.....
We use to have common sense to know to stay home.....especially the schools would alert folks over the radio and Tv
When I was in school in rural Tennessee it was a rare day to be caught at school if inclement weather struck........and if so, at the first flakes of snow (knowing how quickly the roads freeze)
Those county buses were lining up post haste to get us home.......and most of us lived on or traveled through hilly, steep areas.
Heck, this is nothing. Here in Florida everything has been shut down for three days through today and it didn’t even snow. Very very limited and scattered ice patches is about it.
Someone sent me a picture today of a lawn chair with ice cycles hanging off of it. The caption was “Houston Ice Storm: We Will Rebuild”.
The people are so used to the nanny state that they even expect the government to listen to the weather reports for them then tell them what to do. It’s their fault they sent their kids to school. It’s their fault they decided to go to work. No one held a gun to their heads and made them go out when the weather service had issued an Ice Storm Alert.
Which political party is running Atlanta? Aren’t they ready for massive global cooling?