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To: GeorgiaDawg32; All

I think GDOT and generally every one did a good job. People went to work KNOWING that snow was coming and that temperatures would be in the teens after sun down. The city had their deicing trucks out and working.

What people forget is that sanding and deicing have to happen at a specific time in the storm. Too soon and it is all gone by the time temps drop; too late and it is ineffective; PLUS there is always the case where the stuff works and then temps drop again really fast and refreeze.

You exactly right when speaking of plowing equipment and deicers. The state has quadrupled the number of plows and increased the deicing trucks as well. They even found a new brine solution that helps break up the ice on the road way better.

I think the state was as prepared as they could possibly be. I have seen empty street shots of NYC when they get hit with snow. Denver is notorious for housing the snowplows in a location that no one can get to if there is a storm.

Come on folks how unreasonable can one be?


35 posted on 01/29/2014 4:16:26 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Great for GDOT. ALDOT done good too. Atlanta wasn’t the only one struggling. Birmingham was also as big a mess, with people stranded overnight on the interstates, and in Montgomery, there was more ice and less snow, and it was a mess there, too. In other Georgia areas, Macon was a mess, as was Columbus.


51 posted on 01/29/2014 4:55:50 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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