Posted on 01/29/2014 2:49:28 PM PST by Biggirl
I came dang close to moving there one time for a job with the Monroe shock absorber plant.
My 3 day visit to the area was eye-opening.
So different to what I was used to in almost every way.
I heard Atlanta got an inch of ice. Did your wife get home OK?
Hello Clint
I didn’t get a chance to hear Mike Lee. I hope Mark plays some excerpts.
After 20 years with my company, they started letting me work from home.
That was two years ago.
During that 20 years, I commuted to downtown Atlanta every day.
I got emails early this morning from 3 different coworkers
who all spent the night on transit buses on the interstate.
Yeah. I hear that quite a lot from people who have never been there.
Something you have to get used to.
That plant is still there.
I heard cars were abandoned all over the place. Just wow!
First time I ever saw a feed lot.
We don’t do it that way around here.
Yep. Lol.
More cattle than people around there.
Not kidding!
My brothers company is in Atlanta and one of the employees sent a photo of what he was contending with... but it was ‘on a secondary road’ leading to a housing development....the pile up there was astounding!
I listen to the state of union trying not throw something at my tv.
NASCAR gone bad!!
Holy Crap!
Was the road issue ICE? or folks that did not know how to drive in an inch of snow? The pictures (to me) indicate folks simply driving too fast for conditions....then again, with all the oil buildup on those freeways, and snow on top of it.....and panicky Somali drivers....It is like an EPIC demolition derby
And as for the folks leaving their cars......RUOLW ONE of winter weather conditions is...IF you get stuck in a snowstorm DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR! But hey, thats for us folks that live in the Tundra ;-)
ROULE=RULE LMAO for thosde of you that do not type while eating ;-)
What I was most impressed with was the history of that area.
That flat valley where the Platte River flows was an important east west transportation corridor
for wagons and carts, the pony express, the railroad, the surface roads, and the interstate.
I-80 I think.
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