Dang that man made global warming.
Well, Cumberland County NC put out the notice yesterday that schools would be closed today and tomorrow.
At the time the weather report called for it to start with light snow around 11:00AM. The weather ban did some wiggling overnight and it just started sleeting around 5:00PM.
They could have had school today - but they like to play it safe due to all the crazy drivers around here.
Hence the need to plan ahead. It’s like any other storm...it can change in a moment. You need to be ready.
Oh, and another screw up by guvment schools.
My wife had to drive home in that mess. 11 mile trip took over 7 hours, about 1.5 MPH average. Hope you are safely tucked away for the duration!
I would find a way to get my kids at all costs.
This I don't understand. Do their tires not have treads? Here we have school busses delivering students into the Cascade Mountain foothills through ice, snow, mud, running water and whatever else a typical winter might bring. They never get stuck.
Dear Parents:
“WTF did you expect? This area isn’t prepared to deal with any amount of snow.
It doesn’t happen enough to justify the expense.
Your kids were safe, warm, had drinking water and access to bathrooms”
Reminds me of a Little House on the Prairie episode.
Predicting what a snowstorm in the south will do is hard enough, but this one threw a lot of people for a loop. It was supposed to take a narrow track through south Alabama and Georgia, but it covered a larger area to the north. Lots of places weren’t prepared because they didn’t expect to get hit. Nobody was expecting it to start out as an ice storm where I live, and that made things much worse.
Left Newnan at noon. Got to my house at 8 pm.
Were there no warnings of snow for Birmingham, Atlanta, etc.??? There were warnings for areas south of those places. Those schools cancelled classes for today and tomorrow. But places with millions of people were too stupid to cancel? Did the National Weather Service botch this??? If George W. were POTUS, then he would be blamed for not warning the poor folks in those areas. So the current occupant needs to take full blame for this one. And his administration. This is a HUGE mess.
I was laughing today as I read posts by my friends in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Atlanta. At 10am, Tuscaloosa schools decided they would dismiss students early. HS at noon. MS at noon thirty. Elementary at 1pm. At 11am, emergency management asked everyone to stay off the roads. Uh huh. Birmingham is a city of hills. They had school today. I have friends whose children are spending the night at schools. And the friends did not make it home either. I have friends in Atlanta where a dad is in a hotel, a mom is home alone, children are at various locations with friends, another mom spent hours and hours driving to pick up a toddler and then home. It is crazy. I would be furious with myself if I had sent my children to school today. I would be furious if the weather report were so inaccurate. But was it? That is what I want to know. I was only paying attention to ours.
The good news is that it will be warm on the weekend. :)
The folks in Atlanta are starting to sound as dumb as the folks stranded in NO after Katrina. Why did they even put those kids on the bus for school? They knew they were not equipped to handle it. They had ample warnings for more than a week.
if its anything like DFW ice rain it is almost a death wish to try and drive. you can be a Quebecker and still get it from some yahoo driving with no tread tires.
Meanwhile, my brother’s school district got 58 inches of snow in a 3 day period and the average temperature was below zero. School was never closed.
We got about 3 feet in the same time period with similar tempts and had one day with a two hour delay.
Not to down play people getting hurt or stuck in places, but even in Atlanta shouldn’t you be prepared for bad weather?
The board of education doesn’t follow weather reports???
Here they make the decision as early as 4am to close schools.
Lower the air pressure in your tires to about 20 lbs for traction on ice.
Ping for preppers
We are in south GA, and school for tomorrow was cancelled ahead of time. Coming from Germany, where we had several inches to feet of snow regularly, this seemed a little overcautious, but they are not used to black ice in this area. I totally get it. Hopefully, everyone at the schools in Atlanta will get home safely, even if that is in the morning. Prayers for al the families concerned.
It started snowing here in SE TN before the kids went to school
and keep snowing for hours way into the afternoon
I texted one of my grands about 11am thinking she was at home..
she said that they were still in school and going to be let out at 12.30AM
Mine live just a few blocks from school and get picked up by a family adult but I don’t know how the bus riders fared as the roads were thick with snow by that time..
when I saw that my drive way was covered and not likely to melt but could be frozen over by night, I took my car down by the street so I could get out if need be..
Its not snowing at present but right now 1AM Wednesday its colder here than it is in Atlanta ...