Some of you may be familiar with the city of Atlanta. Others may be familiar with the show the Walking Dead. I don't really follow the show that closely, but if I take it way out of scope it predicts that the city of Atlanta will be destroyed by zombies one day. While I personally thought this was a very realistic possibility, it turns out the writers of the show may have been horribly horribly wrong.
It turns out on January 28, 2014, something unbelievable happened. It began to snow in Atlanta. The US National Weather service stepped in to confirm.
This is quite an unusual occurrence this far south as we typically only get occasional snow flurries and what not. Most of the time it just rains during the winter. We thought, oh hey, just a little snow. No big deal right? But not. The situation began to suddenly grow more dire.
Wow. School is being shut down? This must be a real emergency. My mind started racing. Could the Walking Dead writers really be this wrong? I know there is some movie about snowy nazi zombies but as far as I know no civil war corpses had risen from the dead with the start of snow fall. It suddenly dawned on me. A different piece of entertainment was the real prediction of how the world would end for us. The film just portrayed the wrong city.
Dun dun dun!!!! sick movie by the way you should totally watch it
I don't believe I was the only one to come to this conclusion as I looked at my fellow wide eyed students. We decided it was best to high tail it out of there and get back to our dorms. Luckily I heard it might get down to like a ridiculous 20˚F (or about -6.7C) so I bundled up as best as I could before heading out into the tundra for my 9:30 class this morning. I was prepared for this.
The effects of this ravishing snow storm were immediate. As I made the dreaded trek back to my room I took a picture of the once glorious Atlanta skyline. A proud city no more engulfed by the swirling freezing grips of death.
I was almost home free when I encountered the most dangerous natural obstacle. + Show Spoiler +
wow those steps look slippery I would not recommend running up them!
As a side note, in preparation for the looming zombie apocalypse, the city of Atlanta had already set up massive metal barricades outside of residencies. I suppose they can double up and keep out any snow demons that may spawn in the immediate future.
Luckily, I made it all the way back to my dorm in one piece with no frostbite. I looked out my window to observe the desolate, uninhabitable wasteland left behind by the sudden snowfall.
I immediately huddled up in my warm clothes and heated room to log on to TL to let you guys know that I'm ok. I read online that we are expected to get about 2 inches of snow in the next 24 hours (or about 50.8 mm). Hopefully this snowpocalpyse blows over but I am not sure. I'll try to keep you guys updated.
sorry I was thinking m to mm instead of cm to mm lol. it's supposed to be 50.8 200 inches of snow would be pretty fucking fun though
The scarier thing could be that I'm an engineering student that uses metric units all the time anyways and I still did that. good luck everyone if you use anything designed by me.
My roommate and I stayed up late last night because everyone was horrified that an inch of snow would fall out of the sky and school would be canceled. Thank God nothing so dreadful has occurred so far. School life goes on here in North Carolina.
Thats not even driving in snow though lol ah well.
Its OK even here the first snowfall of the year usually causes some major traffic headaches as people seem to forget how to drive in snow over the course of the summer and have to re-learn every winter.
I made sure she didn't see me taking the pictures.
On January 29 2014 04:17 BisuDagger wrote: I've been on the GTech campus and around the area. I feel like I kind of recognize the places in your pictures( and could possible hunt you down).
Also it appears that selfie proves shellbot has at least on his face passable human looking skin.
Reminds me what happen in California awhile back. It was 40 degrees outside and people were wearing winter coats because it was so cold. While in Massachusetts with the same temperature and I'm wearing a tshirt and shorts.
On January 29 2014 05:11 teddyoojo wrote: like why are ppl not driving very carefully if they have no idea what to do otherwise
apparently the media have been calling it a "once in a generation storm" although I have no fucking clue why because we got like 3 inches just a few years ago. so I guess everyone i just scrambling to get home and sliding on the ice.
On January 29 2014 05:12 N.geNuity wrote: I fucking hated that campus closed down for the afternoon. I had an important meeting to go to
i go to gatech
That sucks. A couple of my friends were pissed because they canceled the career fair
On January 29 2014 04:17 BisuDagger wrote: I've been on the GTech campus and around the area. I feel like I kind of recognize the places in your pictures( and could possible hunt you down).
Also it appears that selfie proves shellbot has at least on his face passable human looking skin.
Small anecdote: I live off of one of the Great Lakes and have a lot of experience with snow. My freshman year roommate was from Katy, TX which is near Houston and ran outside in bare feet the first day it started snowing. It was bizarre that he had literally no idea what snow felt like.
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
@GTPGlitch, there is secretly a photo of me posted in the TL+ picture thread
@Lorning, so far still alive
@Epishade, be safe snow is no laughing matter!
@NovemberstOrm, thanks
@AgentW, yeah it's pretty funny seeing some of the Florida people and stuff react who have never seen snow before. At the same time I have some friends from New Hampshire who are like school closed before a snowflake falls? what is this shit
@Sentenal, yeah that sucks that they waited so long for most things. My parents live further to the south and their entire town was basically shut down as of last night. Georgia Southern apparently canceled school for today like last night and they didn't even get snow in Statesboro today. wtf! Also, sorry if that's your truck but fuck that guy with the UGA license plate
@ShadowDrgn, the secret is out D:
Also, I'm doing a design class this semester. My adviser lives in Connecticut so our group has to meet up and skype him or whatever to talk to him and we usually do it once a week on Tuesdays. One member in my group commutes + school was canceled so I had to try and explain to this guy why 1-2 inches of snow was a serious reason for us not being able to meet up haha. I'm pretty sure he was just like are these kids fucking serious but he ended up being ok with it. It's just funny how easily this city gets shut down.
Nah, the UGA one was just some car I walked by, my truck is the red Dakota... Well, I guess right now its white. I drove by some nasty wreaks on the way home from work earlier. Had a hard time making it past them, it was like navigating a Zelda Ice Temple.
It's 8 here and my furnace is broken. I have it reading 46 degrees in my freaking living room. Staying as far away from my apartment until I absolutely have to tonight. I wish we closed for stuff like that.
On January 29 2014 04:15 Shellshock wrote: Update: no one in Atlanta knows how to drive in the not snow + Show Spoiler +
Fixed.
On the opposite side I remember moving from Memphis where we would have situations like that, to Colorado, and being flabbergasted (and feeling slighted) that the 10 inches of snow weren't even going to get us a delayed start.
We have even less snow than ya'll here in Athens (about 1 inch) but its getting crazy over here as well. Saw 2 traffic accidents on my way back from work.
time to start drinking I guess for warmth or whatever
lol at closures to snow. I think I've only ever seen my university close once at like 3 in the afternoon when we were getting pounded with snow. My classes were finished by that point so it didn't matter XD Good writeup
On January 29 2014 07:51 AgentW wrote: It's 8 here and my furnace is broken. I have it reading 46 degrees in my freaking living room. Staying as far away from my apartment until I absolutely have to tonight. I wish we closed for stuff like that.
At my place we don't even heat the house higher than 50 at night, 60 in the day. No fun
Someone I know commutes to GT from Chamblee which according to google maps should typically be about a 20 minute drive. It took her over 3 hours to get home
additional Snowpocalypse 2014 update: reports of a baby being born in a car stuck in traffic delivered by a police officer people still stuck in traffic picture of a bus that slid sideways blocking one of the highways
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On January 29 2014 21:12 Plansix wrote: 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.
WHAT? You mean to tell me all the shovels I own magically appeared or were homemade? That statement is about as dumb as the man in your second point. Lol.
On January 31 2014 03:50 Sn0_Man wrote: Snow Shovels are pretty functionally different from normal shovels. I've tried both for shovelling snow off my sidewalk
Lows and Home Depot are more then equipped with snow capable shovels. Unless there is some news story I'm missing behind this. But he should have been more specific if he meant snow shovels
Snowed like 3 inches here yesterday and today. Now its -15celsius (probalby around 0 farenheit?). What a miserable place to live. Sometimes I find it hard to properly commiserate with situations like this one.
Snowed like 3 inches here yesterday and today. Now its -15celsius (probalby around 0 farenheit?). What a miserable place to live. Sometimes I find it hard to properly commiserate with situations like this one.
I don't feel bad for them either. Running around like a bunch of idiots. It baffles me how people just lost their mind in the past few days. This kind of weather really isn't a first. It's just the first time everyone in atlanta went stupid all at once.
On January 29 2014 21:12 Plansix wrote: 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.
WHAT? You mean to tell me all the shovels I own magically appeared or were homemade? That statement is about as dumb as the man in your second point. Lol.
Sorry, Mr. Dagger, I miss spoke there and was relaying some hyperbole from twitter. In the grand land of New England you can buy 5 shovels at every corner store and we could army a city to remove any amount of snow that could fall with only elbow grease. If we were to go to war with Florida armed only with snow shovels, your homeland would fall within a week due to lack of supplies. Then we would rule over Disney World with an iron fist.
On January 31 2014 08:56 Shellshock wrote: I heard the roads in New England are made of salt and gravel. Can you confirm?
The road to the house where I grew up was, yes. Mostly dirt. But I grew up in a town of 900 people, with one store. My car is currently covered is salt and I am waiting for one warm day to wash that crap off.
On January 29 2014 21:12 Plansix wrote: 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.
WHAT? You mean to tell me all the shovels I own magically appeared or were homemade? That statement is about as dumb as the man in your second point. Lol.
Sorry, Mr. Dagger, I miss spoke there and was relaying some hyperbole from twitter. In the grand land of New England you can buy 5 shovels at every corner store and we could army a city to remove any amount of snow that could fall with only elbow grease. If we were to go to war with Florida armed only with snow shovels, your homeland would fall within a week due to lack of supplies. Then we would rule over Disney World with an iron fist.
disney world has had the pleasure of my attendance but new england hasnt, GG
On January 29 2014 21:12 Plansix wrote: 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.
WHAT? You mean to tell me all the shovels I own magically appeared or were homemade? That statement is about as dumb as the man in your second point. Lol.
Sorry, Mr. Dagger, I miss spoke there and was relaying some hyperbole from twitter. In the grand land of New England you can buy 5 shovels at every corner store and we could army a city to remove any amount of snow that could fall with only elbow grease. If we were to go to war with Florida armed only with snow shovels, your homeland would fall within a week due to lack of supplies. Then we would rule over Disney World with an iron fist.
Don't doubt super Mickey. And I was just blowing things out of proportion <3
So apparently it's going to snow tonight and maybe tomorrow. The city of Atlanta has learned from their experiences (holy shit really? I'm actually shocked) and school is already closed for tomorrow! Snowpocalypse II possibly incoming
It's never a good sign when the weather forecast for 2 days in a row is "Ice Pellets - 100% chance of precipitation." Not supposed to be any icy roads until tomorrow night so they might be jumping the gun by giving you tomorrow off already.
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