It has been a
total clusterfvk. :laughing: We have about 2 inches here (45 mins north of Atl.). The wife went to work about 6 hours early yesterday (nurse) for her 7:00 p.m. shift and took two sets of clothes knowing she'd be locked in for a couple of days and she works tonight too.
It's a mixture of ice and snow along with the huge culprit of just not having the snow equipment (as stated previously here)...and of course no one has snow tires. The politicians took a beating in 2011 when this happened and promised it was a learning lesson...oops...this time was even worse.
HUGE traffic jams as everyone was let out of work around noon/1:00 p.m. I'm listening here
95.5FM & AM750 News/Talk WSB - Atlanta's news, weather, traffic | www.wsbradio.com and it's all about people having 12 HOUR drives to get home...if they're there yet. Many kids had to spend the night in their schools due to the buses not being able to get out (or having to return to the school once they tried).
I don't think the south will ever have the equipment to handle stuff like this, it's just not feasible economically to have millions/billions of dollars worth of equipment that just sits...and sits...and sits. Plus the manpower to try and maintain (and then utilize it maybe once every few years).
I spent part of my youth/young adult-hood living in the Syracuse, NY area (dad still lives there), I've driven in plenty of winter weather...the roads were NEVER as bad as they get down south with just a bit of snow/ice...because the equipment/manpower is there 24/7 to make the roads drivable, and everyone has snow tires. I've got a 4wd truck and there's no way I can even get out of our driveway (good incline) with the ice on it, I'd be a fool to try...been there, done that. :laughing:
It would be fun to have everyone who thinks they could drive this mess to come on down and give it a try...without snow tires, of course. I'll gladly watch...from a very safe distance.
And of course none of this is helped by our drivers who
think they can drive in this stuff, and the people who just plain get stuck out in it.
