Poor Atlanta!
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UPDATED: Thursday, February 13, 2014 23:01
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The otherworldly, icy nightmare that paralyzed Atlanta is slipping into the rear view mirror. Abandoned cars still litter the road, but not for long.
Georgia will help motorists retrieve abandoned cars Thursday morning by ferrying them in four-wheel-drive vehicles to spots where they left them standing.
They will also receive up to five gallons of gas, emergency management spokesman Ken Davis said.
And a jump start, if their batteries are dead.
Numerous teams comprising 75 officers will be there to help.
The state sent out officials to count the number of abandoned vehicles in and around Atlanta.
There were 2,029 left to remove early Thursday, Davis said.
Throughout the South, tow trucks have been swarming over the ice, and they still have work to do.
A-Tow, which runs more than 40 trucks in metro Atlanta, reeled in 200 abandoned and wrecked vehicles from the storm Wednesday. It said 120 of the shlepps were requested by state transportation officials.
In Alabama's hardest hit county, hundreds of vehicles still stand silent and abandoned on country roads. The streets were still impassable and closed Wednesday in Shelby County, just south of Birmingham, the Sheriff's Department said.
Only emergency vehicles were allowed on them.
In North Carolina, at least 600 motorists called police to say they had crashed their vehicles or abandoned them. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/30/us/winter-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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They're getting our "Winter". It was 55 degrees here at 10:00 p.m. last night, and 61 as I was driving into the City at dawn yesterday to run the dogs! We actually got what you might call some "rain" in the wee hours of the morning, but it was a pretty pathetic drizzling, and no more in the forecast. Happy for the wildlife and landscape to get that much; the hills, which should be verdant green for the few brief months we get green every year, are stark brown.
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The weather folks missed this, and as a result, the state and local officials thought they could half ass their way through a "routine" Winter Storm Watch.
Only, it quickly became a Warning , when the NWS issued it at like 3:30 AM. Word didn't get around , until it was too late. Unlike prior storms, this one hit right at lunch hour, when kids were all in schools and most were all at work. When EVERYONE tried to get home, at the same time, it was chaos.
And it still is. It was 9 degrees here last night, keeping much of what hasn't evaporated away yet as a solid sheet of ice on the roads. 
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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I'm really trying not to seem insensitive, so I'll just ask one question.
How many inches did you guys get?
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I'm really trying not to seem insensitive, so I'll just ask one question.
How many inches did you guys get?
The snow wasn't the problem. It was the ice. The snow was actually dry and powdery ( which sucks for playing in ) The snow would briefly melt, then freeze over again, forming an ice base, which was then covered over by more snow. As cars ( every road was jammed ) would move on the road, it'd break the ice some, melt it a bit, which only allowed it to refreeze more. Temps were in the mid 20's. So, 1-2" , to answer your question, though I think other parts may have received more. What made this event different is that the ( mountains ), in the northern part of the state, were missed entirely. The heavier snow was further south.
The big problem was so much traffic. It was easier to drive around in the '11 storm, which was a REAL snow / ice event, because everyone was off the roads. All ya had to do was stay in the tire ruts from the 4x4's that had made a path, and you could get around fairly decent.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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The snow wasn't the problem. It was the ice.
Snow and ice generally do go together...
Sorry, I don't understand why it happened, and I guess I should try to reign in my smug amusement until I do. That's not an easy task for me though.
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THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW... today! 
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I'm really trying not to seem insensitive, so I'll just ask one question.
How many inches did you guys get?
The snow wasn't the problem. It was the ice.
That's generally the problem around Atlanta. If it was just snow, wouldn't be so bad.
I remember one back in the early eighties that was so slick that not only couldn't you drive, you couldn't even walk. I lived about 1/4 mile from my work, and it took me two hours to get home on foot. This was after I looked at the folks trying and failing to get up a 2 degree slope out of the parking lot, and decided to leave my car.
There was another one that started as rain and then froze, and the parking lot got so slick the parked cars slowly slid down a slight slope and ended up neatly piled against the curb.
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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Yeah, ice can do that.
I remember coming to a breathtaking stop.... BEFORE the stop sign, mind you!... and from a dead stop having the car slide sideways off the (very flat) crown of the road, smack into the curb with both wheels. By the next day, about 30% of the cars that I saw on the road had minor dings in them. The body shops did great business!
So, ice storms are good for business. At least some businesses, anyway.
Kitty litter works even better than salt and rug pieces.
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:Quote:
The snow wasn't the problem. It was the ice.
Snow and ice generally do go together...
Sorry, I don't understand why it happened, and I guess I should try to reign in my smug amusement until I do. That's not an easy task for me though.
It wasn't the clumpy sort of snow many may be accustomed to. There was a solid sheet of ice 1/2 " or more, on many of the roads. Add to that mix bumper to bumper traffic, EVERYWHERE, and school buses clogging the roads as well, few of which were even prepped with any salt or sand , and it was just chaos.
The standard operating procedure is for the weather guys to scream and pull their hair out, build up the event like it really IS the Day After Tomorrow, the schools to close early, and everyone stay home, after their obligatory trip to empty out the grocery stores ,for what at most will be a 2 day event.
But that's not what happened. The storm came hours before we were told, slid further north than expected, and just hit at the worst time possible. Right at the lunch rush hour.
I've been catching up on some t.v. I'd been neglecting, and getting caught up on Agents of Shield, among others.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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In an effort to make amends, I give everyone from Atlanta my full approval if they want to call this Icemageddon, and I won't post a "Winter is Coming" Game of Thrones pic.
That's all I can promise though.
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