snowed in from noth ga

[The Fred]

Thanks for the pictures folks please stay safe.

Fred

 

[Wakey]

A quick video I shot yesterday evening.

 

[joecdeere]

+1 on not having the proper equipment here, worst part is they always wait until everyone trys to escape town before they start treating the roads, by then thousands of cars and trucks are in the way. There are over a million people working in the ATL area, if they all leave pretty much at once and there is ice, it's not gonna be good. I grew up here, the snow isn't a problem, it's just that it half way melts as cars keep driving on it, then it re-freezes into ice you can't stand up on. (preaching to the choir I know!) The worst thing around here are the housewives in their giant SUV's rushing home to pick the kids up at school! DO NOT get in their way. Oh well, only supposed to get up to 30 degrees today, then 9 again tonight. It will be here a day or two!

 

[joecdeere]

Wakey, where are you located?

 

[MarkV]

Ya it is a mess here. I know ya'll up North are not impressed but ice is ice and people are just not equipped for it here. I was in the N. Georgia mountains at our cabin and made the drive to our W. Georgia home not long after it started. The normal 2 hour drive took 8 1/2 yesterday. If it hadn't been for a good samaritan with a 4 wheel drive truck that got me up one section of mountain road it would have been a long night in the car. I am sure I saw at least 200 cars in ditches on the way home. This mornings news says many on I 20 west of ATL had to spend the night in there cars. A number of major highways are shut down where big rigs jack knifed and the wreckers can't reach them because of ice. The temps are not going to reach 32 today so things are going to stay a mess for awhile.

MarkV

 

[Larro Darro]

The ice got down my way sometime after midnight last night. Glad I don't have to go anywhere. Here is a satirical look at the Atlanta situation from a guy I know on Tomahawk Nation. It's pretty funny.

Larro

 

[Gary Fowler]

my driveway up to the house is steep with a slight turn at the bottom, well this idiot sweeped the snow off and tried to take my yamaha golf cart down it and locked the brakes up and did about 3 full turns on my way to the bottom made it to the bottom and wen to check you the road at the end of my drive way and its covered and slick, i wish i could get my tractor out to plow, i dont think id make it down the hill so far we have about 3 inches, 3 more than we were supposed to get.

Golf cart tires are about as useless for traction as you could get. First time it snowed here, I thought I would use the cart to do some chores, I got the back tires about half way out of the garage and it wouldn't go forward or back. I managed to push it back into the garage. Wife got it stuck in some small bit of mud trying to go across the pond dike on a road we have there. After that, I got some bar lug tires from Buggiesunlimited.com and it was an almost unstoppable beast with those tires on it. Looked pretty cool too with them on front and back. Now we use the RTV and rarely get the golf cart out.
You should have no problem driving the tractor on that little bit of snow. Where it gets really tricky is if you have a bit of freezing rain that coats everything in black ice, then snows on top of it, then nothing short of tire chains will be safe to drive with.

 

[Wakey]

Wakey, where are you located?

Off Peachtree Pkwy. (HWY 141) How about you?

 

[Gary Fowler]

You guys are so lucky to have some snow. My wife has been B----ing for all winter because we haven't gotten any snow this year. I woke her up early yesterday (8am) to watch a few snow flakes fall for about an hour. Tiny little things that one could barely see. Clear skies and cold is mostly all we are getting with the occasional cloudy day. A little white covering over everything would be a welcome sight here. I don't have to go out on the roads every day like some, so I can just sit and look out my window while I view TBN and admire the view.

 

[joecdeere]

Campground RD off Hwy 9 in Midway. Right behind the Meal House Restaurant if you know where that is. Grew up on farm where St Ives CC is now. Sure has changed!