SNOWMAGEDDON! Atlanta Shut Down Entirely

Source: Personal observations. | 1/29/2014 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING! Post #15 this thread.

So Laz what “ Inquiring minds want to know” is did you get screwed?? ;-)

[Lazamataz]

So Laz what “ Inquiring minds want to know” is did you get screwed?? ;-)

In both senses of the word, "I was not so screwed."

[Lazamataz]

mid 20’s, down to teens overnight. Enough that if you ran out of gas (and many did) you got in trouble.

[yarddog]

I took this one a few minutes ago. This is frozen sleet not snow. The temperature outside is 24 degrees at 1:44 P.M. This is Holmes County, Florida.

[Lazamataz]

Yes, glad you pinged to number #15. We can use these little mini-emergencies to find out HOW prepared we are. Are we sensitive enough to unfolding events to respond quickly? Is our supply loadout sufficient? Can we get to our bugout (or in my case, bug-in) location efficiently in mass panic traffic (by being ahead of the traffic wave)?

It was a very good test, and I passed — THIS time.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Man, I thought some DC-area drivers were bad in snow!

I took me 3 to 4 hours to get from Germantown, MD to Mt. Airy, MD, once in snow. The drive would normally take about 20 minutes or so.

Combined PING! and DANG!

[Lazamataz]

I see no tank traps.

Nor do I see any severed heads on pikes.

You have a way to go yet.

[CodeToad]

Do they even sell snow tires in that part of the world?

Remember when Jimmah was elected it froze in Georgia.

[Lazamataz]

By the way, this traffic-load map is very informative. When it is time to go, minutes count.

If you left at 11:57, you were in good shape.

By 12:36 you mught be in trouble.

20 minutes later, by 12:57, you were so screwed.

[Lazamataz]

A Southerner’s idea of a snow tire is to scrape frost from the fridge and put it on the tire.

[Kartographer]

How many people would have spent a far better night than what they did with nothing more than a sleeping bag, a couple of MRE’s, a flashlight and a gallon of water in their trunk?

[Lazamataz]

The water would have froze, but if they had a few army MRE heaters, that might have helped.

Yes, your point is solid.

Ours is a permissive-carry state, so there wasn't a lot of car-to-car looting.

[Obadiah]

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[blastbaby]

coming from Central Manitoba, Canada. Ice is terrible. But.............I live north of that, and I commute everyday 45 miles one way. I always carry a snowsuit, candles, food, heat blankets, quilts etc. We get black ice in late fall and spring. Fog, snow squals, you name it.

You must be prepared for anything. And learn how to drive really really slow (because here you are more likely to get rammed from behind stopping when you can’t see, because a lot of people here are born with xray vision apparently)

[Kartographer]

I could have been worse! It could have been zombies instead of ice and snow!!!

[Kaslin]

Watch from now on if their is the slightest mention of a possibility panic will be going on. Schools will be closes, people will empty grocery shelves of especially bread, milk and eggs

[knarf]

The same thing happened in the 70's (if any since then, I'm not aware of it)

I laughed out loud ('cuz there weren't no LOL back then ... ) ... no ... I GUFFAWED !!!

[Lazamataz]

There is a GREAT video that shows how the CGI is applied to The Walking Dead shows... amazing stuff.... let me go find it....

[Kaslin]

That depends on what the temperature has been for the lst several days.