Snowpocalypse 2014 - Page 3

On January 29 2014 07:17 Sentenal wrote:
I wish it would have started snowing earlier this morning, so I wouldn't have had to driven to work, and then fled in terror from this white shit like haflway through the day. You can't drive on ice, I'm lucky I made it back without running into something!

But I went out for a winter adventure earlier, and took some pictures of all this cold white stuff:
http://imgur.com/a/xnFGF

When snow only three fingers deep triggers an epic traffic jam, stranding motorists and school kids on interstates for hours, there’s something very wrong with this picture. Two inches of snow isn’t supposed to turn highways into campsites. Backups aren’t supposed to last all day, through the night, and into the following morning. And yet, here they were — hundreds of motorists across Alabama and Georgia — still hunched over in their cars Wednesday morning, feeling the aftereffects of a snow shower that hit the states a day earlier. In Atlanta, seven students were still making their way home on a school bus at 5:30 a.m. ET Wednesday morning — a full 16 hours after school let out and they got on. Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green said “several hundred students at nine schools are sheltered in place.” Rebekah Cole prepared to spend the night in her car on an Atlanta street as the temperature slid into the teens and her tank ran low on gas. She described what she had seen all around her as a “zombie movie.” Streets, highways, interstates gridlocked with people in cars and trucks in the same situation she was in — stranded on the ice for 8, 10, 12 hours. ”If I get gasoline, I will turn the heater on, keep the windows cracked a little bit,” she said.

On January 29 2014 14:50 AgentW wrote:
I don't even understand. When there's two inches of snow, people drive at normal speeds, and everything is fine. I guess it's like Atlanta's version of Pittsburgh's tunnel. People get petrified by those.

On January 30 2014 02:07 TriO wrote:
LOL this is so sad Atlanta can't even survive on 3 inches of snow flurry. Come on give me a break. It snowed like 2 inches here in mass few days ago and shit’s fine, no snow-plows or salt needed, just a brush/broom for your car..take a hike with these pussy excuses

In all, there have been more than 1,200 car accidents, 130 injuries and at least one weather-related fatality on Georgia roads, according to the Georgia State Patrol during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.