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friendfromlowry

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Jan 29, 2014 9:45 AM
A snowstorm of 1-2 inches is currently crippling the southeast (INb4 "only in the SEC") leaving behind stranded motorists, closed schools, and shut down roads and highways. You'd think they got hit by tornadoes instead of an inch of snow. In their defense, southern motorists aren't used to driving in the snow (which to me means they don't know to just slow down and give extra space) and don't necessarily have the salt & plows we do up north.

What say you? Cut them some slack, or is the story just a little too dramatic and they need to figure it out?
Jan 29, 2014 9:45am
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WebFire

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Jan 29, 2014 9:46 AM
Dramatic. Like everything in warmer climates. Proud to be a midwesterner.
Jan 29, 2014 9:46am
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Manhattan Buckeye

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Jan 29, 2014 9:50 AM
To be fair, in some places like Central Virginia there is about 5 inches of snow. But generally yeah, they shut down schools if the temperature gets below freezing level.
Jan 29, 2014 9:50am
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bases_loaded

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Jan 29, 2014 9:59 AM
I read people were abandoning cars in Atlanta on the highway...WTF..."oh noes, 2" of snow...fuck it, I'll just get a different car when its warm again"
Jan 29, 2014 9:59am
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sportchampps

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Jan 29, 2014 9:59 AM
A guy I used to work with moved to Atlanta. He sent me a text this morning that it took him 6 hours and 45 minutes to get home last night. He said his normal drive is only about 15 minutes and less then five miles. I told him he should have just walked home in his old Cleveland gear.
Jan 29, 2014 9:59am
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TedSheckler

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Jan 29, 2014 10:32 AM
This was on US 280 in Birmingham. People just abandoning their vehicles.

Jan 29, 2014 10:32am
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vdubb96

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Jan 29, 2014 10:32 AM
Those people are obviously poor.
Jan 29, 2014 10:32am
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Jan 29, 2014 10:33 AM
TedSheckler;1573751 wrote:This was on Interstate 280 in Birmingham. People just abandoning their vehicles.

I don't understand why it's so hard. It's common sense. These people look like retards.
Jan 29, 2014 10:33am
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LJ

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Jan 29, 2014 10:33 AM
Tom Herman was stuck in his car for 19 hours and then started walking to the airport at sunrise. He tweeted the whole time
Jan 29, 2014 10:33am
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Belly35

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Jan 29, 2014 10:38 AM
it's Black Ice ... not Black Guys ... mofo
Jan 29, 2014 10:38am
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Raw Dawgin' it

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Jan 29, 2014 10:40 AM
I find it similar to people on the west coast laughing at our earthquake a couple years ago. But, if you can't drive in this shit, stay home. Forecast calls for ice and snow? Don't leave the house. I live in the DC area and snow turns people into retards.
Jan 29, 2014 10:40am
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friendfromlowry

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Jan 29, 2014 10:40 AM
The headline on cnn.com is "IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN"
Jan 29, 2014 10:40am
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Raw Dawgin' it

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Jan 29, 2014 10:41 AM
Belly35;1573756 wrote:it's Black Ice ... not Black Guys ... mofo
No i'd say it's black guys. In my experience black people are horrible drivers.
Jan 29, 2014 10:41am
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queencitybuckeye

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Jan 29, 2014 11:08 AM
friendfromlowry;1573727 wrote:
What say you? Cut them some slack, or is the story just a little too dramatic and they need to figure it out?
The same question applies with my friends from the twin cities calling us Buckeyes pussies for closing schools when it gets a little chilly.
Jan 29, 2014 11:08am
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friendfromlowry

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Jan 29, 2014 11:21 AM
queencitybuckeye;1573771 wrote:The same question applies with my friends from the twin cities calling us Buckeyes pussies for closing schools when it gets a little chilly.
Good point. The bad weather in the southeast seems trivial to us, just like our snowstorms and cold temperatures seem trivial to areas up in Minnesota or the Dakotas.
Jan 29, 2014 11:21am
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Jan 29, 2014 11:23 AM
LJ;1573755 wrote:Tom Herman was stuck in his car for 19 hours and then started walking to the airport at sunrise. He tweeted the whole time
I just read his feed. That had to have been pretty nuts to be through. At least from my perspective, since I tend to feel a bit jittery/serial-killery after being in gridlock for, say, 10 minutes.
Jan 29, 2014 11:23am
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Jan 29, 2014 11:35 AM
I have a couple of friends in the Carolinas, they posted pictures on facebook.

One in North Carolina has 8 inches of snow, no doubt that'll close things. The other in South Carolina had a dusting, with none sticking on the road, and they shut down the local schools and colleges.
Jan 29, 2014 11:35am
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Jan 29, 2014 11:51 AM
I get that they are totally unprepared for snow and ice (no plows, no salt, etc.), but the bedlam on the highways is unnecessary. Drive slowly and carefully, and there won't be 1000 accidents in one day.
Jan 29, 2014 11:51am
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bases_loaded

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Jan 29, 2014 11:59 AM
We rarely have to drive on untouched roads here in Ohio...these are untouched roads with 10s of thousands of drivers who think bad road conditions are when it rains when it hasn't for awhile...
Jan 29, 2014 11:59am
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mucalum49

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Jan 29, 2014 12:21 PM
Working from home today in Charlotte. It's always funny to think 1-2" of snow shuts down cities. But I opt to not venture out, not because it's overly unsafe but the people on the roads. However I will say without salt the roads do get really icy until the temperature gets above freezing.
Jan 29, 2014 12:21pm
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Jan 29, 2014 12:34 PM
I think it is about 10% bad driving and 90% the city being unprepared.

The problem is not the couple inches of snow in Atlanta. The problem is they don't have the resources to salt or plow, and they released all the schools and business' at the same time. The streets turned to straight ice, which nobody can drive on, and ton's of semi's jackkniffed blocking already gridlocked roads.

I have friend who lives in Atlanta and grew up in Cleveland, and he couldn't make it home because his car literally couldn't make it up any sort of hill because the streets were pure ice.
Jan 29, 2014 12:34pm
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Jan 29, 2014 12:36 PM
Fulton County had 99 school buses still on the road with kids in them at 12:30 this morning.
Jan 29, 2014 12:36pm