Atlanta Is A Mess!

No apparently it's THE END OF THE WORLD...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS RELAYED A

* CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE AT THE REQUEST OF THE GEORGIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IN ATLANTA GEORGIA.

* A STATE OF EMERGENCY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF GEORGIA DUE TO IMPACTS FROM A WINTER STORM ON TUESDAY THROUGH THIS MORNING.

* THE CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON ON THURSDAY AND PRIMARILY PERTAINS TO THE ATLANTA METRO COUNTIES OF GEMA AREA 7. THOSE COUNTIES INCLUDE FULTON...DEKALB...CLAYTON ...COBB...GWINNETT...DOUGLAS...ROCKDALE...FAYETTE AND HENRY COUNTIES. CHEROKEE COUNTY HAS NOW BEEN INCLUDED AT THE REQUEST OF THE LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER.

* SOLID SHEETS OF COMPACTED ICE AND SNOW CONTINUE ON MANY SECTIONS OF ROADWAYS IN THE ATLANTA METRO AREA. THIS CONTINUES TO CAUSE EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS ROAD CONDITIONS WITH SOME AREAS STILL IMPASSABLE.

HUNDREDS OF VEHICLES AND TRUCKS ARE STILL ABANDONED ON PORTIONS OF THE INTERSTATES AND PRIMARY ROADS IN THE ATLANTA METRO AREA. THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE THIS AFTERNOON WAS NEAR 30 DEGREES. ANY MELTING THAT OCCURRED WILL REFREEZE TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE TEENS. BLACK ICE WILL BECOME A MAJOR IMPACT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.


Hotwater

 

No, it stopped snowing early last night.


I live at the top of a big hill. People down the hill got some of their cars out this afternoon and parked them in front of my house. They will walk up the yards in the morning to get to their cars.

 

Here's the pic I was after...

 

I wish you safety and hope that your city government can provide some type of contingency plan for incidences like this so it doesn't .

 

Atlanta has had snow and ice plenty of times. What was so different this year?

 

Why would you try to sleep in the "Lighting" section of the store?

 

It's being discussed on WSB Talk Radio right now. It's an interesting discussion. Clark Howard is digging and digging for answers and solutions. The mayor insists that it's because everyone left the city pretty much at once. He's saying there should've been a staggered, staged exodus. On the other hand, the DOT should have properly prepared the highways. The problem occurred when the first cars began sliding.

Lol, I know!

 

I absolutely feel for you guys in GA, that is for sure. We get a couple of decent snows a year here in the Texas Panhandle, and we're ill-prepared for them as well. We had a good snow the Saturday before Christmas this year (which would be considered quite pansy to the oh-so-prepared northerners) and thank god it was a Saturday because it turned the roads into solid ice. I worked that day and left 4 hours early, thank god I did, because I wouldn't have made it home at all if I had stayed until my shift ended. Since it was a Saturday, there wasn't a whole lot of traffic out, so my normally 30 minute commute was only about an hour, but it was my FIRST time to drive more than a mile in that kind of weather. It was super intense. It's easy to laugh when you live in an area that is equipped to deal with the weather and keep traffic flowing safely, but when you live somewhere where winter only hits hard a couple times a year, they just don't spend the money on preparations.

I think I've decided I'll just laugh at Yankees every time they complain about "wind."

 

It's true we don't have the experience; just as people far north don't have experience dealing with extreme heat. They say we don't have air conditioners because we normally don't need them. Well there you go. We don't have snow tires, chains, plows, etc.

That doesn't make anyone "dumb", just in-experienced because you seldom have to deal with the unusual extremes.

 

Ty, I'm thinking these must be the people who are afraid of the dark.

 

thats a funny looking plow ...its kind of shaped like a snowblower

 

the lost city of Atlantis was buried in 2in of snow and never found..

 

I live in Iowa. We can get well over 100 in the summer and we just had -17 a couple of weeks ago. We're used to all of it. I don't know anyone who doesn't have AC. I feel bad for Atlanta but there was ample warning. The city screwed the pooch from what I've heard. That said....my city wouldn't even bother starting the snow plows for an inch or two of snow. It's almost not even worth noting around here.

And nobody here uses studded tires or snow chains (that was in response to an earlier post). I shouldn't say nobody but 99.9999% of people. I haven't seen either in two decades.

 

She must be somewhere down close to the Wilmington area. I would expect every other part of NC to be reasonably well prepared for snow. It rarely snows along the coast south of Cape Hatteras. Snow is more frequent here as you get further inland and closer to the mountains, which get hammered every year.

My dad told me years ago to beware of snowstorms that come here from the direction of Atlanta. He was right. They seem to always be the worst.

 

I'm sure people are dreading trying to go retrieve their abandoned vehicles.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/winter-weather/

 

Is that the Coventry Phish shows?

 

I'm sorry. I have no idea what that ^^^ is.

 

Atlanta is a shit city and is a mess with or without snow.

 

Atlanta has horrible traffic. The streets are former cow trails, not thought out or planned.