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Horrible drive home....snow thread

ladypanther

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Took my friend in Atlanta 7 hours to go 9 miles home, no exaggeration.

 

Was listening to Sirius radio this morning at 7 AM on the way into the office.

 

A guy called in from Atlanta.  He said that he was stuck on I20....and had been there since 3PM yesterday.

 

The road is covered in ice and there are wrecks/cars everywhere.  People are running out of gas and are huddling together in the cars that still have gas.

 

What a nightmare.

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They still use salt in NC? I thought everyone had gone to mag chloride.

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I would suspect that snow is the exception, not the rule in NC and the rest of the southeast.

 

Likely a cheaper alternative for an event that only happens every so often there.

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I have screenshots on my cell phone of the exact same thing from 3:00pm yesterday and from 1:00am this morning. If you're interested, you can watch some coverage here. http://www.wsbtv.com/s/news/live/

 

People that live by the interstates are just walking down there and taking people water and food.

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I have screenshots on my cell phone of the exact same thing from 3:00pm yesterday and from 1:00am this morning. If you're interested, you can watch some coverage here. http://www.wsbtv.com/s/news/live/

 

People that live by the interstates are just walking down there and taking people water and food.

 

I heard that as well.  Great to see people helping out their fellow man in this nasty weather.

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Every single school system in the metro area closed between 11:00 and 11:30. They all brought kids to school and then released them minutes after they were able to count it as a full school day. Business follows schools - had all of the schools been closed, the majority of businesses would have been closed or told their employees to work from home. As soon as the schools closed at 11:00, everyone flooded out of their offices to go pick up their kids. While there are tons of compounding factors like our reliance on cars, shitty transportation networks, sprawling metro area, and lack of capacity in terms of snow plows and salt trucks is an issue, the larger issue was the fact that schools got greedy about not having to make up a day of school. 

The schools really caused the problem I agree. The schools here went ahead Monday and decided to close all day on Tuesday and today. They could have gotten away with a half day here, but it was a close thing and they made the right decision. I'm shocked that the ATL schools didn't go ahead and close on Tuesday. That would have prevented most of this. As for the roads, they (just like here) don't have the equipment and manpower to deal with a winter storm like this at all, so I can't really blame them for that part of it... but they acted like they weren't prepared for it at all.

From what I've seen it must have been a lot worse there than here, BUT it's completely flat here and even with a sheet of ice covering the road we can still get around, not so where there's a grade.

I hope all you ATL people are ok.

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Every single school system in the metro area closed between 11:00 and 11:30. They all brought kids to school and then released them minutes after they were able to count it as a full school day. Business follows schools - had all of the schools been closed, the majority of businesses would have been closed or told their employees to work from home. As soon as the schools closed at 11:00, everyone flooded out of their offices to go pick up their kids. While there are tons of compounding factors like our reliance on cars, shitty transportation networks, sprawling metro area, and lack of capacity in terms of snow plows and salt trucks is an issue, the larger issue was the fact that schools got greedy about not having to make up a day of school. 

 

 

Not much they can do about release times at jobs, but the schools thing is absurd.

 

The reason they don't have a ton of salt trucks on the road is simple, they don't need them. 

The problem compounds when the roads fill with people, then the salt trucks do you have can't get to the roads because of the traffic.

 

The schools really just lit the fuse of stupid and the "public" followed suit with a big helping of Government Planning.

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