Exactly, I got the same snowstorm as Atlanta and no one can drive normally on roads that have been snowed on, the snow melted and then refrozen into a sheet of smooth, slick ice. And if that happens in a large city, you get what we saw in Atlanta.
The problem this week was that the snows started in the morning after most people had gone to work, or gone to school, or wherever. And then the streets and roads were dangerous in the afternoon when folks needed to head home, either early or at their normal time. - Of anyone had had a good weather crystal ball, everyone would have stated at home the morning the snow came.
Our snows usually come at night and melt away before noon, but this one came in the morning and stayed for two full days, and it is unusual for snow to stick around that long in most of the South.
Absolutely not. if it snows in a large city that treats their roads, you don't get what you saw in Atlanta.
I remember here in Dallas it happened several years ago, took me six hours to drive home in a normal half-hour commute.
Georgia ice storms are amazing. I lived many years in the highest elevations of the Appalachians, and never encountered anything like a Georgia ice storm.
One winter in central Georgia, the ice formed on trees and entire forests broke under the ice. The power lines were down for several weeks. The power company gave up trying to repair them, because the ice would form and break them as fast as they could put them back up.