Posted on 01/29/2014 5:09:35 AM PST by Pan_Yan
The blizzard of '93 brought more snow than most Atlanta natives had ever seen or will see.
The floods of 2009 brought an unexpected rush of water that submerged interstates.
The winter storm of 2011 took an entire week away from the city.
But the Snow Jam of 2014 might be the single craziest weather day in Atlanta in a generation.
1-to-3 inches of snow, mixed in with an afternoon drive that still hasn't ended has brought Atlanta to its knees again.
“There are certain things we don’t have control over and one of those is the weather. This came rather unexpectedly," Governor Nathan Deal said. "The time frame in which it hit was a very short time frame. And I think we’re better prepared now than we were in 2011.”
Metro Atlanta interstates have been gridlocked since about 1 p.m. Tuesday. Commutes stretched 8-to-10 hours. And that's for those who actually got home.
Thousands have been stranded in their cars just sitting in the middle of the road.
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I guess the South Will Rise Again...just not during winter.
That’s why I’m sitting here laughing at the Northerners trying to tell Southerners how to drive in snow. There is no comparison in the snow. I’ve driven in both. I’ll take a Northern snow any day. In the South, there is almost always a layer of ice under the snow on top of ice. It’s wet, gummy, and slick. The funny thing is that several times that I had to drive I-75 in the snow to get home from work, guess who caused the wrecks? Almost every time it was a Northerner that was driving too fast for the ‘Southern’ snow and crashed, causing the pileup. When you see the tractor-trailer drivers pulling over, it is too bad to drive on. They drive all over the country in snow and other weather conditions but they will pull over and stop in a 2 or 3 inch snow down South. Most cities down here don’t have enough equipment to deal with snow. My County only has one snow plow and when the blizzard of ‘93 hit, it ended up in a ditch first thing. LOL If our back country roads get cleared it’s usually by farmers with front-end loader buckets on their tractors.
In my later years of employment, knowing that a snowstorm was on the way, I scheduled a vacation day or two instead of driving the rush hour graffic in the storm
I was in Atlanta for the ‘93 storm. Spent several days cooped up in a La Quinta Inn near Buckhead.
I recall there was definitely more snow back then. Everything was a mess. People were abandoning their cars back then too. Almost everything was closed.
I remember giving driving tips to some people at a nearby Shoney’s. Not condescending tips. Just tips to help them get where they need to go w/o an accident.
horrible forecasting. The Euro model had snow and freezing rain all across GA for several days before hand. It’s bad when a blogger in his basement in Richmond Va can give a better forecast than the weather channell or local news. Check out Wxrisk.com.
Family time is always good time! Stay warm and stay off those dangerous roads then.
1-3 inches? Lol. That’s a dusting.
when I was a kid a rubber was something you used to erase pencil marks...
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also referred to as erasers...
OLD LINE:
If we weren’t allowed to make mistakes, there wouldn’t be erasers on the ends of pencils...
Of course S/A’s would say “Use a Pen like I do”.
As to rubber footwear
BOOTS or WADERS came up to your calves
Galoshes or Arctics just above ankle, had metal clips to fasten over shoes.
Rubbers protected your shoes.
Another ‘old one’...
“So stupid he couldn’t pour Pee out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.”
I hope to get into town tomorrow to visit them ...
theres been few cars out here in my part of the county today so there might be problems on the roads...
The rubber waders my Dad used to use when he went fishing for trout went right up to his butt...
there were straps on the top that he attached to his belt...
One of those that reads the Euro model instead of the US based ones. The Euro model has been showing this for Atlanta for a good week.
I think normally the de-icing truck is used for Mt Lemmon road... or to teach school children about that “foreign land” called the Snow Belt.
I’m in Savannah. They shut the whole city down as of yesterday, and it stays shut down today, but there isn’t anything but some cold air and some rain. Ridiculous.
there were straps on the top that he attached to his belt...
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Remember them....Seems to me I am sort of picturing the fishing waders with shoulder straps??? I get that image but also that of the ‘old overals’, like coveralls, but with open back, a bib and straps from the shoulder to waist (in back).
Maybe I am running two pictures together????
Best ‘excuse’ for that is if one can remember galoshes, arctics and gay actually meant something GOOD, getting a couple of pictures confused is nothing...
Like they say
“Don’t worry about not immediately locating your car when coming out of Walmart, the problem begins when you are not sure whether or not you drove”....
I saw all that type and I wasn’t going to read it. But I did. And it was so funny! “Monty Python”, I said to myself. Then I clicked on the link, and it was. Thanks for the laughs.
the Mexican government is allowing americans to escape the frigid cold and cross south into mexico. they are proving Mexicans are not bigoted like we are by not letting immigration into the us.
(oh wait, that was the movie I saw the other day. nevermind)
Classic! Thanks!
Now days they helicopter in emegergency arugla to school.
That’s really horrible. Here on the Rockies, I have thick, white ice all around and high winds spraying more of the stuff. 12-18 inches expected over the next two days with more high winds, then temp dropping to -13, F (very warm for around here this time of year).
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