<p>Just got update from friend in Atlanta, got home about 3am. It took him 15 hours to go 15 miles. Also a former coworker, took her 15 hours to get home, unreal</p>
<p>Atlanta area #snowjam2104. Awful, awful , awful. I know people up North are shaking their head at the situation, but the city is just not equipped with the equipment to deal with this. Drivers/ school buses stranded overnight on the interstates which are still gridlocked. Not sure when the icy roads will be clear. </p>
<p>$ally, I am watching the news and can’t believe it! It looks like a Hollywood disaster movie that couldn’t possibly be real. The news just interviewed the father of a kindergartner who walked 8 miles last night to her school to spend the night with her so she wouldn’t be frightened. Don’t you know he will bring that up when she is acting out in her teenage years! </p>
<p>Was stuck in it for 4 hrs but went around some stuck cars and made it home. DH stuck in his office.</p>
<p>9th snow/cold day off for my HS Junior today since January 6. Thought you all might enjoy seeing this - not something to be proud of, but my city almost breaks the top 10!!! <a href=“http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/ski-conditions/20-coldest-large-cities-america-20140107?pageno=20”>http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/ski-conditions/20-coldest-large-cities-america-20140107?pageno=20</a> Does your city make a showing??</p>
<p>15 hours??! What?? That is ridiculous! And to think people were stuck overnight?? This is so unfortunate. </p>
<p>Stay home, people!!</p>
<p>Well it hasn’t snowed here in weeks but my fiancé hasn’t bothered to shovel and last night the garage door wouldn’t close so he shoveled just that snow-- behind the cars. I got stuck this morning and had to try and shovel myself out wearing $15 suede boots and no gloves, my fingers froze together . Fiancé had to come home from work (25 miles away) to help me and was mad at ME. I’m mad at him! Then I forgot my key card when I left the second time and I had to stand outside for a half hour, this time with crappy gloves but no cover for my ears or face, because nobody would let me in. </p>
<p>Ema, you are testing your luck! @-) </p>
<p>My friend’s daughter left GA State in downtown Atlanta at 1:00 pm yesterday. She finally arrived home in Roswell at 11:00 am on the 29th (today). Of course her cell phone was dead. Her poor family was worried sick. She was just stuck on 75.</p>
<p>The temp in our area isn’t expected to make it out of the 20s. Roads and highways are still slick as well as littered with wrecked and abandoned vehicles. Officials are asking people to stay where they are if they’re safe and warm and not try to retrieve vehicles they abandoned over night. Although dh is thankful to have a warm office to sleep in, along with snacks and water and clean restrooms, he’s not doing too well. Without his Rx meds or CPAP he’s feeling lousy today and is not too happy about the prospect of waiting until tomorrow afternoon to come home. I wish I could find a way to get his meds & CPAP to him.</p>
<p>Good heavens. If you don’t want to wear the warm gear, then at least stick some in your car!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/winter-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1”>http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/winter-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</a></p>
<p>I’m not sure why schools didn’t close proactively. Did people think meteorologists were overhyping the snow?</p>
<p>I had decent gloves in the beginning but I couldn’t wear them and hold the shovel at the same time so I had to take them off, and then once my hands were already cold they were useless. I have good snowboots but I don’t normally need to wear them just to get to work 3 miles away, they are so heavy duty I’m not sure I could even drive in them. I just had the worst luck this morning! Nothing like a day where everything goes wrong to show you how unprepared you are. And of course I had my key the FIRST time I left but not the second, and I worked from home while I waited for fiance to get home to help me shovel out, and then when I got to work the system thought I was still logged in and wouldn’t let me on. And I hurt my wrist shoveling. It took hours for my hands to thaw properly and stop itching. But now they seem okay. At least this didn’t happen yesterday when it was REALLY cold.</p>
<p>I just hope by this time next week I will have my lovely new slightly-more-snowproof car. They found me the perfect one except it didn’t have heated seats, and now I really want those so I am hoping they will be able to find it.</p>
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<p>Actually the governor appeared on CNN twice; the first time (last night), he said, “We have been confronted with an unexpected storm that has hit the the metropolitan Atlanta area.” Then earlier today he was asked about that comment and amended it, “I did not mean to imply that we didn’t know something was coming; what I was referring to was that the National Weather Service had continually had their modeling showing that the city of Atlanta would not be the primary area where the storm would hit.” </p>
<p>But according to CNN, the NWS did put out a winter storm warning for just the southern Atlanta metro area at 3:20PM Monday, and they updated it at 3:28AM Tuesday morning to the entire metro area.</p>
<p>Hmmm… really, really bad planning.</p>
<p>I realize now that my post sounded accusatory towards Atlanta- I didn’t mean it like that in the least!</p>
<p>Are the roads caked in ice underneath the snow? Is that what the issue is? Most people, even if you’re not used to it, can drive in a few inches of snow… ice is a whole 'nother animal all together though. </p>
<p>I can’t believe children needed to be escorted by the national guard. It just seems like so many things could’ve been avoided. </p>
<p>Oh yes, a nice thick layer of ice and it hasn’t risen above freezing yet… won’t until tomorrow. </p>
<p>Ugh. Best wishes to every one down there. Ice is a ***** no matter how cold-accustomed you are.</p>
<p>Ice is the problem in our area, too. Combine the ice with hilly terrain and thousands of people trying to get home, or to their kids’ schools, and you have a recipe for disaster. Officials now think it will likely be the weekend before the majority of abandoned vehicles have been either reclaimed by their owners or towed.</p>
<p>If the forecast for tomorrow is accurate, then dh should be able to get home in the afternoon. I’m trying to focus on preparing for the next time to keep from worrying.</p>
<p>romani
The main problem was traffic. 1.1 million people work in Atl. Literally between noon and 1 they all headed home and onto the interstates. At noon 285, 75 and 85 were running normally by 1 pm the roads were gridlocked. </p>
<p>Then the snow fell, the roads iced and cars got stuck. Emergency vehicles couldn’t get through to clear the roads, people ran out of gas, abandoned their cars, which further hampered then emergency vehicles and ploughs. </p>
<p>I almost wonder if people had stayed in place it wouldn’t have been so bad. Atl has traffic issues at the best of times and never handles snow well. Compound the 2 events together and the past 24hrs are the result.</p>