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Poor Atlanta!
Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:26 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: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 [/quote[ 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.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:34 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:42 AM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:50 AM
Quote: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?
Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:56 AM
Quote:The snow wasn't the problem. It was the ice.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:01 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote: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.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:06 AM
Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:09 AM
Quote: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.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:16 AM
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FIVVER
Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:22 PM
ELVISCHRIST
Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:31 PM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: How many of the kids that were stuck at school had their meals thrown in the trash because they didn't have money? Teachers keeping kids in schools overnight - frivolous! This is why we need to slash teachers' pay! Also, we need to make sure to slash city budgets so this kind of thing can't happen again. :D
Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:05 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:08 PM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by fivver: The major problem was all the kids were in school and they decided to close around noon. That meant parents had to scramble to leave work to pick up their kids. Businesses then decided to close. Instead of having the school traffic clear before the main rush hour, it all hit at once.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:21 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:00 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, I assumed at this point that was a given. Clearly he should have used his "lawless" "imperial" powers to issue an Executive Order shutting down all of Atlanta.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Home schooled kids... had no such travel problems . They got to sleep in their own beds that night.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, I assumed at this point that was a given. Clearly he should have used his "lawless" "imperial" powers to issue an Executive Order shutting down all of Atlanta. They used to call such events "acts of God", but clearly, Jesus' daddy would never do such a thing to the fundamentalist Christian, loyalist Republican and good conservative citizens of the state of Georgia. So it must have been an act of imperialist Presidential tyranny. And you will note that Obama didn't get Congress' approval before he did it, even tho' he alibi'd out by appearing on TV in the company of The Good Congressmen, the Republican ones, at the same time. Sneaky liberal commie organizer, how can we ever prove that it was his fault?
Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:08 PM
Quote: So it must have been an act of imperialist Presidential tyranny. And you will note that Obama didn't get Congress' approval before he did it, even tho' he alibi'd out by appearing on TV in the company of The Good Congressmen, the Republican ones, at the same time. Sneaky liberal commie organizer, how can we ever prove that it was his fault?
Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:51 PM
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Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:15 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: "at 12:15 all the interstates in the Atlanta area were coded green and by 12:36 that had changed to red." Jezus, sounds like an amazing bit of stupidity...I'm glad there were no deaths.
Friday, January 31, 2014 12:13 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Friday, January 31, 2014 9:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: btw - you said Obama is god.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:15 PM
Quote: The Ice Storm cometh.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:36 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:39 AM
Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Geezer: Here in the DMV we got a pretty good snow as well. Measures 7+ inches at my house, and another dose of 'only' 2 to 3 inches this evening. Virginia DOT has already spent their snow removal budget, and is dipping into general funds now to keep the roads clear. Have to admit they're doing better now than in years previous. Used to be that they wouldn't get down to our cul de sac (Hey. I don't live on a dead end street. It's a cul de sac) for two or three days after a storm, by which time the folks living here had already dug the road out. Now, we've already had plow trucks make two passes this morning. "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."
Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Don't you just heart global warming ?
Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:18 AM
MAL4PREZ
Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: At least 12 inches so far just outside NYC, with hours and hours more to go, including a change to sleet and rain. It's pretty awesome. I don't exactly *heart* climate change/global warming, since extreme weather events like this and like Jan 28 and Sandy and the CA drought etc... are becoming more common, exactly as CC/GW predicts. I love a good storm, so I'm not complaining. I'm having fun today, and even found the chaos of Sandy and Irene somewhat invigorating.
Quote: But I'm guessing that the thousands without power or those stuck in their cars for days or those who lost houses or livelihoods or their lives in these weather events wouldn't agree with me, or with you two buffoons. Carry on.
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