|
I keep thinking in Celsius and have to convert all these temperatures into something I understand :p
School closing for that is extreme. That said, a few years ago a post-doc here slipped and fell on the icy/snowy paths and broke an arm.
It was fun during undergrad when a friend from Trinidad saw snow for the first time and took photos of everything.
Anyhoo, I hope it all clears up and returns to normal. In my experience snow if fun for a few days and a giant pain in the neck afterwards.
|
The two great parts of this are as follow:
1: No one sells shovels in Florida, so people can't even remove the snow from their doorway without getting "creative". The CD case has been my favorite so far.
2: The legendary twitter account, Florida Man, keeps retweeting people saying stuff like "Its snowing in Florida, where is your global warming now Obama." Since he have several thousand twitter followers, amazing things happen to those people have they get retweeted.
|
United States23454 Posts
Cry more Shellbot I live in Philadelphia. We get serious snow.
|
United States97245 Posts
Cry? I don't see any tears. I was just trying to keep people informed of the dire situation
|
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
Looks like a regular Swedish summer day to me
|
The problem is that the snow started in the afternoon when it was barely below freezing. Instead of accumulating on roads, it melted and then froze once temperatures dropped in the evening. Frozen roads + rush hour traffic = disaster. Thousands of people couldn't get home last night and ended up sleeping in cars or abandoning them on highways and walking to motels/restaurants. Lots of kids had to sleep at school because there was no way to get home. Unlike colder cities that cover their highways in sand and gravel in the winter, Atlanta doesn't. As a result, every highway in the city is covered in a thick sheet of ice right now. Many of them look like The Walking Dead, full of abandoned cars pointing in the wrong direction.
|
So... You are stalking that blond girl ?
EDIT : damnit someone already noticed :p
|
United States97245 Posts
unfortunately no. She just happened to be held up at the same crosswalk as me
|
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/winter-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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
|
United States97245 Posts
The way they handled the situation was really dumb. They let everyone out of work and school at the same time clogging the roads and then the ice fucked up everything as other people have already said
|
I love you guys in the south. We got 2 inches in New Jersey during the night, the only difference now is that the whitish-brown roads in town are now the slightly whiter whitish-brown roads in town.
|
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 This is a rather annoying view from people who lives in an area where snow is common. I'm also fairly confident that a large number of accidents caused in our snow down here is a result of people from the North who think they can drive in Atlanta snow. You have snowplows and salted roads. We don't. Brush/broom your car, and find there is a nice layer of ice beneath it that has to be melted off. You weather gets a lot colder than "a bit below freezing". Our weather has snow fall on roads, melt, then refreeze. I don't care how much you think about the snow, no one can drive on black ice. And its the black ice that causes the roads to shut down. Winter weather in the South is a much different beast than what it is up North.
|
United States23454 Posts
Didnt realize how bad it ended up getting down there :/
|
TLADT24917 Posts
Heard that there's been over 100 accidents already, like 110 so far :O I guess when you guys aren't prepared for snow even if it's a tiny amount, problems will happen like all those long waiting on the highway and such. Shellbot, make sure you stay alive otherwise who's going to LR lol. On more serious note, still interesting to see how things are developing. Hopefully, things clear up and everything gets back to what it was prior to the snow.
|
United States97245 Posts
The snowpocalypse continues for another day
also here's a picture someone put together + Show Spoiler +
|
Have people just left their cars there? What else could be the holdup?
|
United States97245 Posts
Yea people abandoned their cars and stuff. I know a girl who abandoned her car a few miles from her apartment last night at like 9 pm and was planning on going to get it today.
one of the funny things I did see was a shoutout to all the heroic bartenders who still showed up to work last night.
|
Meanwhile, in southern Sweden (bordering to Denmark), we are having a blizzard for the fourth day in a row.
And it's lovely.
|
United States97245 Posts
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. http://www.weather.com/news/winter-storm-leon-causes-massive-gridlock-atlanta-20140128
Glad I don't have to drive anywhere. My uncle took 11.5 hours to get home last night according to my parents. His normal commute is between 30 min and an hour depending on normal traffic conditions.
|
My God that is really surprising. In France we are quit bad when snow comes up but in major city unless there is real snow, all is fine.
It's "funny" to see that some part of the world don't know how to handle those situations. But well.. If it never happens how could you prepare ?
|
|
|
|