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raiderbuck

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Jan 29, 2014 12:49 PM
I think it's hilarious! Of course, I live in Chicago where we abandon cars because of real weather:




But leaving your car for a couple of inches of snow? Pathetic, Atlanta...absolutely pathetic.
Jan 29, 2014 12:49pm
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mucalum49

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Jan 29, 2014 12:52 PM
ATL traffic is already terrible. I left too late from a meeting heading back to NC one time and got stuck in rush hour on I-285. Took me 2 hours to go 10 miles on a sunny day. You figure yesterday all offices shut down early and schools closed at lunch time which put everyone on the road at the same time in a city that is already the worst to drive in. Then add in snow/ice and you get this chaos. Not defending it but driving around that city I can see it happening. Any time snow is that definitive they should just close up that day to avoid this mess. Better to be precautionary than risk harm to everyone.
Jan 29, 2014 12:52pm
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Zoltan

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Jan 29, 2014 12:55 PM
mucalum49;1573811 wrote:ATL traffic is already terrible. I left too late from a meeting heading back to NC one time and got stuck in rush hour on I-285. Took me 2 hours to go 10 miles on a sunny day. You figure yesterday all offices shut down early and schools closed at lunch time which put everyone on the road at the same time in a city that is already the worst to drive in. Then add in snow/ice and you get this chaos. Not defending it but driving around that city I can see it happening. Any time snow is that definitive they should just close up that day to avoid this mess. Better to be precautionary than risk harm to everyone.
Exactly, it doesn't make fiscal sense to buy a bunch of equipment and salt when you get a light snow every three years. The city should just close down to avoid have 5 million people on roads that are pure ice.
Jan 29, 2014 12:55pm
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Iliketurtles

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Jan 29, 2014 1:08 PM
Driving around any major city in Alabama or Georgia is terrible. And the drivers already suck so throwing any amount of snow/ice in there just makes it worse.

Sadly we didn't get any snow really in Huntsville(Northern Alabama) I was hoping to get off work early again last year when we got 1-2 inches. But yeah people abandoning their cars is pretty ridiculous.
Sonofanump;1573765 wrote:They don't sell ice at Publix or Piggly Wiggly to put down on them roads?
I don't think so at Publix... maybe Piggly Wiggly but I've never gone into one just drove past it a few times.
Jan 29, 2014 1:08pm
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Jan 29, 2014 1:39 PM
Yeah they really are scared shitless by the stuff. I took one of my buddies from school to Meijer after the big storm at the beginning of the month and he was freaking out the whole ride. Shut my radio off and kept asking if it was safe to be out, it's almost unreal but I would say they are the least hardy people in America. People from the Lower Great Lakes and Plains have to be the toughest in the country because we go through tornadoes, brutal winters and scorching heat waves
Jan 29, 2014 1:39pm
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queencitybuckeye

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Jan 29, 2014 1:42 PM
Classyposter58;1573832 wrote:Yeah they really are scared shitless by the stuff. I took one of my buddies from school to Meijer after the big storm at the beginning of the month and he was freaking out the whole ride. Shut my radio off and kept asking if it was safe to be out, it's almost unreal but I would say they are the least hardy people in America. People from the Lower Great Lakes and Plains have to be the toughest in the country because we go through tornadoes, brutal winters and scorching heat waves
Kind of sounds like someone shaping facts to fit a predetermined conclusion.
Jan 29, 2014 1:42pm
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Laley23

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Jan 29, 2014 1:48 PM
I have a friend who is from Chicago and lives in Atlanta. He left his car last night and walked about 5 miles home. He said no one was abandoning their cars cause they couldn't drive in the weather, it was because the semis that had crashed made it so you were gonna be on the highway for 24 hours, at least.

Seriously, fuck that. I'm walking home also. I'll get the car later.
Jan 29, 2014 1:48pm
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Fred Garvin

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Jan 29, 2014 2:32 PM
Some of this was unavoidable due to the amount of traffic in a large city.

But there is no excuse for the stranded school kids. There was plenty of warning. Schools should have been cancelled for the day.
Jan 29, 2014 2:32pm
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Iliketurtles

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Jan 29, 2014 2:33 PM
Laley23;1573837 wrote:I have a friend who is from Chicago and lives in Atlanta. He left his car last night and walked about 5 miles home. He said no one was abandoning their cars cause they couldn't drive in the weather, it was because the semis that had crashed made it so you were gonna be on the highway for 24 hours, at least.

Seriously, fuck that. I'm walking home also. I'll get the car later.
Lol yeah if that was the case I'd be pulling over to the side and walking/running home as well. Fuck that shit I'm not waiting either.
Jan 29, 2014 2:33pm
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DeyDurkie5

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Jan 29, 2014 3:18 PM
That's because people from the south are retards. pretty cut and dry
Jan 29, 2014 3:18pm
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Jan 29, 2014 3:42 PM
DeyDurkie5;1573888 wrote:That's because people from the south are retards. pretty cut and dry
And poor.
Jan 29, 2014 3:42pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 29, 2014 5:15 PM
I keep hearing "they were unprepared". That doesn't fucking matter. Even if the city was completely unprepared, normal traffic flow is still going to give you "ruts" in the snow you have that more or less gives you pavement to drive on. The only time you wouldn't get that is if a whole shit load of snow were dropped in an hour or two. This was just 2 damn inches.

This is just inexperienced drivers ruining it for everyone else. I feel absolutely no sympathy for those morons.
Jan 29, 2014 5:15pm
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Jan 29, 2014 7:12 PM
I don't know if it was posted here or not, but apparently word is Atlanta road crews and officials didn't actually think there would be bad weather so they didn't do anything to prevent the road conditions from getting bad.
Jan 29, 2014 7:12pm
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Jan 29, 2014 10:23 PM
mucalum49;1573811 wrote:ATL traffic is already terrible. I left too late from a meeting heading back to NC one time and got stuck in rush hour on I-285. Took me 2 hours to go 10 miles on a sunny day. You figure yesterday all offices shut down early and schools closed at lunch time which put everyone on the road at the same time in a city that is already the worst to drive in. Then add in snow/ice and you get this chaos. Not defending it but driving around that city I can see it happening. Any time snow is that definitive they should just close up that day to avoid this mess. Better to be precautionary than risk harm to everyone.
We were stuck in rush hour traffic in Atlanta once, now We plan Our trips to be hitting Atlanta about 2 in the morning, worst traffic I've ever been in!!!
Jan 29, 2014 10:23pm
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sportchampps

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Jan 30, 2014 1:34 AM
Talked to another buddy from Atlanta he said he was in traffic for 10 hours. He said people would keep trying to move on the ice and were literally blowing out their tires and getting stranded. He said he saw Atleast 20-25 cars blow out their tires in one area. He also thought the guy who put plastic bags around his shoes and tucked them in was a genius so the guys feet didn't get wet.
Jan 30, 2014 1:34am
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Jan 30, 2014 7:25 AM
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Tiernan

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Jan 30, 2014 8:13 AM
They should have taken the MARTA*


*Moving Africans Rapidly Thru Atlanta
Jan 30, 2014 8:13am
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Classyposter58

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Jan 30, 2014 8:21 PM
God this makes me feel so much better when we lose to SEC schools. They're so fucking incompetent down there it's insane, two inches of snow and they're stranded
Jan 30, 2014 8:21pm
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Jan 30, 2014 8:32 PM
Classyposter58;1574532 wrote:God this makes me feel so much better when we lose to SEC schools. They're so fucking incompetent down there it's insane, two inches of snow and they're stranded
It was more like two inches of ice not snow. Already mentioned they don't have plows and salt/sand spreaders.
If you grew up in the South you'd not know how to drive in this crap either.
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Jan 30, 2014 8:32pm
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Classyposter58

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Jan 30, 2014 8:53 PM
Oh it was two inches of slush. Good lord two inches of ice would have destroyed like every power line and tree
Jan 30, 2014 8:53pm
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Sonofanump

Jan 30, 2014 11:37 PM
Not like Wisconsin drivers fare any better.

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Jan 30, 2014 11:37pm
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Glory Days

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Jan 31, 2014 12:43 AM
biggest pet peeve about those two Atlanta videos was all the damn people just stopping their cars in the middle of the highway. get the hell off the road if you aren't going to try driving.
Jan 31, 2014 12:43am
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WebFire

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Jan 31, 2014 8:46 AM
Sonofanump;1574606 wrote:Not like Wisconsin drivers fare any better.

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That's an isolated event though.
Jan 31, 2014 8:46am