Atlanta snowpocalypse 2014

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They have a mayor named Kasim Reed. I think that says it all.

Word.....

 

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Is that the guy that is on the public address all the time in ATL airport? If so, could someone please tell me what the heck he is saying? Is he of Scots descent perhaps?

Hello, I am mayor Kasim Reed. Welcome to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson international airport. If you're just passing thru we hope you make Atlanta part of on your future travel plans. Ya dig, jive turkey? I mean sheeeeeeut. Break ya self foo!

 

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You guys from Atlanta should be ashamed of yourselfs. 2 F'ng inches of snow and you guys start abandoning cars and losing your minds. WTF is wrong with you

You're an idiot and an as*hole. They didn't salt or sand a single inch of asphalt down here.

 

[filejw]

You're an idiot and an as*hole. They didn't salt or sand a single inch of asphalt down here.

I his defense they don't start sanding or salting in most winter places until we get 1 or 2 inchs ...

 

[PCL_128]

I his defense they don't start sanding or salting in most winter places until we get 1 or 2 inchs ...

That's misleading. You know as well as I do that up north, there's usually all sorts of residual salt and sand on the roads from the previous snow that mitigates the problems. I can't remember a single time in years spent up north that there was an inch of snow sitting on an expressway for hours, let alone two days.

 

[Freebrd]

Plus add the fact that not many down here know how to drive in the snow just compounds the problem.\.

True but then you see the yankee fukrs driving like mad men down in an attempt to show us how do it "up north", and then slide off the road or crash.

 

[wms]

In NC they usually start brining the day before.

 

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I his defense they don't start sanding or salting in most winter places until we get 1 or 2 inchs ...

But they do eventually salt or sand. Not in Atlanta. There's too much gridlock.

 

[SAABaroowski]

You're an idiot and an as*hole. They didn't salt or sand a single inch of asphalt down here.

It's 2.5 inches of snow jackass. Unless you're driving a rear wheel drive 400hp car with bald tires, there is no excuse for what happened in Atlanta. It snowed 4 inches in South jersey today. Roads weren't plowed and guess what? People used common sense and all is well........

 

[Clutch]

It's 2.5 inches of snow jackass. Unless you're driving a rear wheel drive 400hp car with bald tires, there is no excuse for what happened in Atlanta. It snowed 4 inches in South jersey today. Roads weren't plowed and guess what? People used common sense and all is well........

Blame the tractor trailers that jackknife across 3 lanes or the iced over hills that bottle necked a city that usually sees close to a million people a business-day, Pauly D.

 

[pilotnbr1]

You guys from Atlanta should be ashamed of yourselfs. 2 F'ng inches of snow and you guys start abandoning cars and losing your minds. WTF is wrong with you

People just assume most of us grew up here. That is not the case- there are many transplants from places that get regular snow who are just as stuck as everyone else. You see all the tractor trailers stuck? Many are not just local truckers...

The bottom line is that Atlanta has hills and most surfaces received zero treatment.

Compounding that is Atlanta has traffic issues even on good days. Rush hour plus no traction = gridlock... Once all lanes including emergency lanes got blocked on the freeways it was a parking lot. Then everyone tried surface streets and the situation repeated. People started running out of gas and had to abandon their vehicles because of the cold.

Yes, we do have idiots (they are everywhere). Yes, there are people trying to drive their rear wheel drive sports car in this (conversely you don't see as many nice cars up north) , but to say that people here just can't "deal" or "handle" the snow is not accurate.

You just happen to live somewhere that has capable government that provides good road service to drivers, otherwise you would be in the same boat.

 

[CA1900]

Don't worry, they're on it:

http://i.imgur.com/sK4ElQV.jpg

 

[Mickey Mouse]

General Sherman is laughing from his grave.

 

[Freebrd]

It snowed 4 inches in South jersey today. Roads weren't plowed and guess what? People used common sense and all is well........

South Jersey is as flat as a certain 'country' singer's chest (really a pop singer)! Plus they have the equipment for numerous snow storms every winter. Down south we get one of these every 10 years or so. Plus the Atlanta area isn't flat like that singer, or South Jersey.

 

[SAABaroowski]

I was half F'ng around, everyone needs to Calm down . Seriously though, what was the excuse from the mayor?

I can't imagine they have many plows/salt to begin with.......