“That said, Atlanta is a different animal. Snow hits, melts, and immediately becomes black ice. Everywhere. Right away.
Without salt or sand treatment — which Atlanta has precious little application ability — these roads are impassible. In fact, I’m leery of WALKING on them.”
I can’t speak for Atlanta, but it was much the same here (B’ham area). Got up Wed morning and went out in my 4x4 to check things out. Weird. Virtually no snow on the roads. Just a thick(over 1 inch) layer of snow on the roads. It was safer to drive than try to walk or even stand on it.
I’m kinda sick and tired of these Yankee’s Holier than Thou attitudes about Southern drivers not knowing how to drive “in bad weather”. Most of the bottlenecks were caused by 18 wheelers jack knifed trying to get up hills. They are professionals and drive in all kinds of weather.
Snow actually provides pretty good traction. Ice, not so much
Whoops. “Over 1 inch layer of ice on the road”
“I’m kinda sick and tired of these Yankee’s Holier than Thou attitudes about Southern drivers not knowing how to drive “in bad weather”.”
Yup. When what happened here happens in NY, they shut down too. They just don’t say much, because it happened every year.