Will be interesting to see how he fairs, but considering that he's a black mayor, any criticsm except from another black will be considered racial.
I'm currently in LaGrange, GA. Everyone knew of the snow coming. Schools and companies closed quickly. These buffoons in Atlanta had the equipment and did not proreact.
Complete incompetence. In fact, the guy was holding press conferences, and still is, saying everything was in order and control.
Atlanta, The City, like New Orleans, That Doesn't Work, But Know One Will Ever Know Will They?
“Will be interesting to see how he fairs, but considering that he’s a black mayor, any criticsm except from another black will be considered racial.”
Unless the criticism comes from an ‘Uncle Tom’.
global warming is the biggest lie ever told. this is the coldest year ever :Snow in new Orleans , snow in Pensacola,snow in Atlanta, snow in Egypt this year. factories have been emitting C02 for the past 200 years. This CO2 is what democrats say is trapping heat in the atmosphere causing global warming. if that were true then sea levels would have risen 60 feet in those 200 years. They haven’t .there is MORE ice than ever in Antarctica( google it) not less. It’s hasn’t warmed. there is no sea level rise, ice caps have not melted.global warming is a big lie democrats push to grow government and control us (socialism).
democrats are pure evil. democrats are socialists, all of them
I will always continue to fight for freedom and for smaller, almost nonexistent just constitutional government: I am a Republican
I’m in north Georgia and was relieved that the forecast was for the snow to stay below Atlanta. If the forecast changed Tuesday morning the local weather channels had a well kept secret.
It’s called winter.
People who always look to blame someomne else for their own misfortune need to consider their own lack of foresight, lack of preparation and failure to use their own brains to evaluate a situation.
When people rely on the government to do their thinking for them and things go wrong it isn’t a failure of government, it’s a failure of the individual to accept responsibility for their own life.
What ever happened to Jane Byrne?
It’s Obama’s fault, just like Katrina was Bush’s fault.
wow....I mean just WOW.
an inch of snow and everyone goes to pieces....
Demonic Party "leadership" = Blame everyone else.
Another act of “northern aggression”
Why the hell hasn’t Obama called out FEMA? What is he going to do about these people in the streets? Does he not care about black people?
Honestly, why isn’t this being hung around Obama’s neck like they tried to do with Katrina around Bush’s?
2 1/2 inches of snow and people get stuck? This is not the government’s fault.
Reed was just reelected by a wide margin.
Out of curiosity, if the mayor or the governor at your location told you this is when you have to come home from work, would you have followed their orders???
Atlantans had a choice. They all could have stayed home from work on Tuesday to avoid what happened. Those that went to work (for whatever reason) chose to take their chances. The storm was supposed to hit later, it was supposed to hit further south, it was supposed to have less snow and less ice build up. Sometimes that happens with weather.... can’t always be perfect in the predictions.
As to National Weather Service, their projections had major portion of storm south of Atlanta and hitting around 2 pm. Not only did major portion of storm hit Atlanta northward but it started in the north at 10am. No one I know has a way back machine. There are 40 snow plows for the STATE of Georgia. Chicago probably has more than that for the south side.
Predicting what a winter storm will do in the south is one of the biggest guessing jobs in the weather business. Conditions have to be perfect for it to snow down here, and conditions change by the minute. They were predicting just where this storm would go for almost a week, and I knew that they could not possibly know what it would do or where it would go, especially when they said it would go further south than usual. Nobody was predicting ice and snow in Atlanta or Birmingham, and nothing was supposed to happen until later in the day. Blame the weather forecasters for this one.
This happened in Boston a few years back. Mayor closed the city and told private companies to send their employees home at 2PM. Schools and government were closed at same time. Massive gridlock. I was caught up in that and it took me until 10pm at night to get home. All it takes is a few accidents and spinouts in that situation and nothing will move for hours.
A Lot of blame to go around here... but I will just say for the record, Southern Drivers are absolute IDIOTS!!!
growing up in Wyo snow and ice are a part of life... but here in Atl... I see things i never thought I would see!!
spent the night on CCP never saw ONE sand/salt truck and took 12 hours to clear one wreck that was blocking the entire road... cops came, and left dint do jack!!!
Pathetic for no more snow and ice that was on the ground!!
Is the Mayor ashamed of his first name? Muhammad?
“Mayor Kasim Reed assured people on Tuesday, in a message on Twitter”
On twitter? really? What about people who dont buy into social media? Good Lord whats wrong with TV?
Lemme tell you...N.O. did it RIGHT this time. We didn’t believe it would actually happen, but there was ice everywhere. You have to be MONUMENTALLY incompetent to make New Orleans politicians look GOOD handling a crisis! Otherwise, the excuses sound about the same. Here, Nagin is on trial for what he didn’t do during Katrina, and how he profited while in office-ironic timing! Will Atlanta’s mayor be held accountable for this? Unless there were deaths, I doubt it. Lawsuits, however, should begin NOW!
"Proreacting" is a subtle talent that's too much to ask of an Atlanta buffoon. Even with equipment. Next time elect a mayor with mnemonic foresight, or predictive memory.