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. :)
Channel 2 was saying the “models” on this storm were constantly changing. Heck, they changed forecasts three times in the span of 18 hours.
People weren’t paying attention.
And now guvment is trying to explain how well they’ve done.
YOU HaVE TO RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!
They were warned. I was at work checking the forcast every 20 minutes. I started suggesting to people that they leave before 10 am, several hours before traffic became a nightmare. Unfortunately my job required me to stay after most people had left.
No, I saw the warnings from the N.W.S. and they WERE IN ALL CAPS, SO YOU KNEW THEY WERE SERIES.