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re: As bad as South Louisiana is this morning, ATL is a complete clusterfrick

Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:35 am to
Posted by Alabama Slim
Team Massie
Member since Jul 2007
10666 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:35 am to
quote:

South side and mountain brook are a complete disaster. I bet there are 2500 abandoned cars between university and bcc


I just drove through Mtn Brook village, up to 280 and made it to the regions red light and hit a wall of 18 wheelers. Turned around back to the office. Anyone in B'ham heard how the interstates are this morning? thinking of going red mtn to 59 to 459 then hit 280 and making it as far as I can then walking the rest of the way.
Posted by ProudLSUMom
Missouri
Member since Sep 2007
3330 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:38 am to
My stepdaughter and her husband live in ATL. My stepdaughter spent the night in Acworth with 26 coworkers at their office. It took her husband 4 hours to get home but he made it.

A friend who is 3 weeks from her due date tried for 6 hours to make it home and finally made it to a Hyatt only to be able to sleep on a sofa in the lobby! Crazy stuff!
Posted by Caplewood
Atlanta
Member since Jun 2010
39420 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:40 am to
Same thing here in birmingham. The state had diverted all our snow plows, sand trucks etc. down south where all the snow and ice was expected
Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
Member since Sep 2012
32339 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:41 am to
It's a madhouse. Cars abandoned. Kids stuck on buses and at school. And the governor has the nerve to say it was unexpected
Posted by NorthEndZone
Member since Dec 2008
13776 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:42 am to
What happened in Atlanta and Birmingham reminds me of the saying I try to think about when things are not going well -

If it's bad just remember that it could be worse - much worse.

Good luck to everyone out there in getting things back to normal. You are in my thoughts. It will get better and life is still good,
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73847 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:44 am to
This is why the DC area shuts down

It took thousands of people stranded over night in 2010 for the govt's to realize, better safe than sorry
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
85380 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:48 am to
Atlanta yesterday

Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112552 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:53 am to
Posted by Tigertown in ATL
Georgia foothills
Member since Sep 2009
30192 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 7:53 am to
quote:

And the governor has the nerve to say it was unexpected



I'm as anti-government as it gets, but it was unexpected.

If it was expected, all those people would not be sitting out there.

What should the "government" (evidently your big brother and keeper), have done?

The populace panicked.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104341 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:18 am to
quote:

My brother-in-law is blind, mentally and physically handicapped and in a United Cerebal Palsey van with 4other men from his group home with similar conditions. They have been at 75 and 285 since 1:30 yesterday with no food, water or, more importantly, no medicine. 911 services have been called long ago and never came. This really is an emergency.


Just damn. Lots of posts like this on the snowedoutatlanta FB page.
Posted by Winkface
Member since Jul 2010
34377 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:22 am to
Ask any weather person, it wasn't unexpected. The city needs a much better emergency management team if they are claiming this was unexpected.
Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
Member since Sep 2012
32339 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:23 am to
It was reported for 4 days. How the frick it that unexpected?


GTFO

Real leaders plan for the worst and hope for the best
Posted by AbitaFan08
Boston, MA
Member since Apr 2008
27894 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:26 am to
Apparently it must be because my flight through ATL this morning was cancelled.
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
44912 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:27 am to
quote:

It was reported for 4 days. How the frick it that unexpected?


It was expected to hit south Alabama. It came north about 3 counties. Hoover people: how's the Bluff Park area?

ETA:

I'm stuck on 280
This post was edited on 1/29/14 at 8:30 am
Posted by LSUJuicer
Member since Jan 2013
3864 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:28 am to
I live up here and feel I lucked out. I am roughly 60 miles from work. It took me five and half hours to get home last night. There are co-workers who live within seven miles or work and they took even longer away. I took back roads and though even more icy the road was wide open to drive slow and make progress.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
109685 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:29 am to
Where's the guy who was saying Louisiana was a bunch of pussies for shutting everything down in advance of this?
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
13070 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:34 am to
quote:

BHam and ATL tottaly fricks up.


Half of America goes through winter storms like this without any significant problem.

Southerners.
Posted by Rand AlThor
Member since Jan 2014
10420 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:35 am to
I live in the burbs north of ATL and it took me 7 hours to get home last night. 13.9 mile commute. I walked the last 6.
Posted by TigerTatorTots
The Safeshore
Member since Jul 2009
82053 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:35 am to
I'm seeing on FB that a guy I know has been stuck on the interstate in ATL since 2:00pm yesterday. Still hasn't moved
Posted by OceanMan
Member since Mar 2010
22701 posts
Posted on 1/29/14 at 8:36 am to
It is truly a disaster. Looks to be thousands of abandoned cars on the freeways.
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