Atlanta Is A Mess!

I think this is the main point. On the news last night the mayor was saying they did not have any warning. That is impossible. It was even on national news. We knew that it would be far south days in advance. Telling everyone to go home at one time is asking for catastrophe.

I feel bad for the kids sleeping in school or stuck on busses late into the night. They probably will remember that for the rest of their lives. They should have closed the schools that morning. If they did not get a bad storm then at least the kids would be safe.

Such a mess. Glad you and yours are safe Aeri.

 

I will never understand why this kind of weather always leads to mass disaster.

It's like people have never seen snow in their lives and have absolutely no idea what to do.

 

In the Toronto area we get the extreme winter weather and the extreme heat and humidity in summer. We get below -30C (-22F) in the winter and sometimes up to +40C (104F) in the summer. It's crazy. Not as consistent on the extreme heat though, but usually for at least 2 or 3 weeks out of the summer.

Now I live a bit further north and it gets about 10 degrees colder, but almost as hot in the winter. This area of Canada is weird, weather wise.

 

It was poor planning on behalf of the entire city. The mayor allowed kids to go to school AND didn't pretreat the roads/highways. So when they did let the students out, as well as all the businesses let their employees leave at the same time. It was the perfect storm.

 

how do you drive in ice? Driving in snow is no problem but I don't really see how even the most skilled or experienced driver can drive safely when there is a solid inch or two of ice coating the roads with no special tires or whatever.

My boyfriend took the car out for a test drive yesterday morning and almost ditched it while going 10 miles an hour and barely tapping the brakes.

 

A lot of our roads are pretreated with brine before the storms hit.

 

If there is a solid inch or two of ice on the roads here the roads would be closed to all drivers except emergency vehicles. People would not be allowed on the roads.

 

if the temperature is good enough ...they put sand on the ice and it melts into it a bit...making it almost as good as bare pavement

its been too cold here lately for the sand to melt in...sideroads are ridiculous

 

oh nice....i had a commercial gravely 12 once...good machine had a nice kohler...ive had a few of those older model L too but they were so rough i didnt ever get them back them to usable condition

had a simplicity model V once too

 

Here's one of the major interchanges in Atlanta.



This guy trys to explain:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-all-altanta-is-stuck-in-traffic-2014-1


So you end up with stuff like this.

 

So where'd all the cars go in that first pic?

 

I actually don't know. Maybe they are all in a big pile up off-screen.

 

It was all a scam so your gooberment could steal cars, put them on a boat and sell them to China.

 

It might have been! Last night, I heard on the radio that some guy had walked off from his $400,000 car!

 

The state DOT is responsible for the major freeways. That's where the huge problems were.

Have you heard (NBC Today Show) Al Roker's comments about people blaming weathermen for not giving enough advance warning? He was really pissed off this mornng! There are time stamps on all the official warnings that went out.

It only takes a fraction of an inch of polished clear ice to make a road nearly impossible to drive on, especially if it isn't perfectly flat, no matter what kind of tires you have. Even a 4WD Jeep will have trouble with steering and brakes.

When I lived up in the mountains, fortunately, we never got that kind of ice on the roads. White ice is rougher on top than the clear stuff, especially after people have been driving on it for a while. Thicker is better than thin, because it's more lumpy. Smooth is what you don't want. I don't think they see much of that up north.

 

We had a good bit of glaze ice earlier this year. I have studded and siped tires on my 1600 lb Metro.. it's pretty decent on smooth ice, like a cat on carpet on the "white ice"....Anyway some dude in a big 4x4 was on my ass because I was going slow and of course alot of the machos around here harbor more than just a little contempt for tiny econo-rigs... Soon as I noticed him in my rear view I dropped a gear and took it up a coupla notches. (from 25 to 35) heh heh the guy trys to keep up.. next slight bend in the road he does a 360 and puts it in the ditch! Haw Haw! :2thumbsup:

Whats that german word for deriving pleasure from anothers misfortune...Schadenfreude!:2thumbsup: serves 'em right

 

This was on the news this morning. Guy from Florida. They called him the samaritan in shorts. :sunny:

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/24582212/samaritan-in-shorts-helps-stranded-drivers