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.
I pictured the exact same thing when I read that.
My office said we open at 10:00. I got in the car and slid down an ice hill and barely dodged some poor lady spun out at the bottom. I could have made it to 85N, but turned around and went home. I have bourbon, my boss can kiss it!
I've been fooling you all, all these years.
Let me brew you some Hot Choddy and talk to you about signing up for Obamacare!
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.
I hate driving in icy conditions. Rather face snow than that stuff.
Actually..and I can`t believe I`m saying this...N.O. Did a good job with this `crisis`. Schools were shut down in advance. Roads closed as needed..I10 totally shut now. The officials did things right...shocking I know. Its still below freezing and iced over so roads are empty. There are always morons who WILL go out but they actually have this handled! I kno...cold day in hell..Feels like 15 outside...I LOVE it,wish it would last ttill May.
In the Chattanooga area, the weatherman did not predict this was coming, so schools, etc were not prepared
I have folks who live there and they barely made it home......by actually leaving their cars by the side of the road or parking lots.....in other words, they walked home
130 car accidents in a matter of hours
Like Atlanta, it’s always the ice
I'll stay here. :)
Another topic could be MyRA - whatever that will be. It will likely have a nice web-based interface, like one-way (contributions only), mandated deductibles into the Void.
I’m not far from Cocoa Beach, and yesterday was sunny and balmy
Some unfortunate employees camped out overnight inside their cars on I-285 while others were stranded in parking lots because they drove to work into a snowstorm with no fuel in their vehicle's gas tanks.
Everyone trapped was wearing office attire.
It's not the dearth of government salt/sand trucks that's the problem here, Laz.
New news... car on fire at Brookhaven MARTA station.
No, not necessarily the snow. It's what the snow became.... ice. The ice made travelling nearly impossible.
Will all the private sector workers still get paid like those Fedgov employees?
BTW, it’s sunny and supposed to get to be 75 degrees today in S. California.
MyRA! That’s right! Get covered by MyRA! It’s a GOOD INVESTMENT in your future, and ABSOLUTELY WON’T BE ANYTHING LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY!
And MyRA will NEVER get twisted into “MyNRA”as a whole other investment premise...
They just don’t even think 2 steps ahead. But that’s a good thing.
Sounds like lots of kids had quite the adventure, camping out at school last night. Feel real bad for those kids stuck on the school bus all night. If those buses are anything like when I was a kid you could freeze to death before you got to school.
791 car accidents. That’s a lot.
Come to Northern Nevada and I will show you spiky mountains and roads with vertical climbs, ice that never leaves until May, and highways that look like bobsled runs with walls of snow on both sides. It starts snowing here in September. Well, not this year anyway.
I'd still like an answer for thousands of commuters driving into a snowstorm wearing business attire with their car's gas tank on 'E'.
They aren't named "Laz"?
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