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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne to two inches of snow fell on Atlanta Tuesday and the city was paralyzed
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and it's cold as hell here, and we have an inch of snow on the ground. Well, it's more like these hard little balls of ice that are clumped together in a layer.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Sleet is rain that freezes on its way down into hard little balls of ice that clump together in a layer. It's much worse than snow in its effect on driving conditions.
I was living in Atlanta in the late 1980's and while I was there we got a couple of inches of sleet that promptly froze solid. The city was shut down for days then, too.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I crunched across the grass getting the garbage can to the curb for trash pickup. I needn't have bothered, the can is still sitting there, and it didn't get picked up. I tried, though.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)it's actually better known to the natives as "Why The Fuck Do We Live Here?".
Aerows
(39,961 posts)once on business. I was pretty much convinced it was paradise when it was -5 below because I had just left sweltering Florida. That was until I actually had to go outside away from heat. I learned how to wear a hat, a coat, and 50 layers of clothing and socks on the way to the car.
My love of snow died that day.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)depressing, annoying, or potentially deadly. I have no further use for it.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I lived there for three months, and those three months taught me that Atlanta is the scariest place in the US to drive. No matter where you go, it's a gordian knot of pavement as far as the eye can see, prowled by yammering idiots-in-bubbles. Add two inches of slush to that? No thanks!
Going through Atlanta is the circle of hell on a good day. In snow and ice? Holy shit.
Note: I do love Atlanta, but driving in Atlanta SUCKS.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)then add rain. Then add a baseball game. Then add DragonCon. Then add snow. Come on! It'll be FUN!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Maybe get a few root canals? No thank you!
Hmmm? They should have used rush hour in Atlanta on Fear Factor!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I'm saying this as someone who lived in Alaska for a decade. My job there entailed climbing into a truck at 5 AM in the morning, and hurtling down the Copper river highway at 70 MPH with five foot visibility because of a howling blizzard (it was a Tuesday) while my driver steered with his knee - in one hand he held a maple bacon bar, in the other, the phone with which he was screaming at his wife in New York.
Atlanta's still scarier than that.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and Houston isn't anything to play with!
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Your mind has been blown, has it not?
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I live just northwet of Atlanta and try to avoid driving down there if at all possible.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)because a priest would need to be on hand to bless you every time you got into your car.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)It was exciting.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Like bleeding and falling into a tank with sharks, no doubt.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)then go a far piece till you get to Peachtree and ask Neal at the gas station.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)Enquiring minds want to know (especially since I live in that segment)
BumRushDaShow
(129,884 posts)With folks setting up to defend TaunTaun parking spaces. They need plenty of room to lay down.
Sometimes the other side cheats with their parking spot scout equipment.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)If every winter day was like this no one here would complain.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)and yet a rainy day today in my neck of the woods.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)If you'll excuse me, I must ride my bicycle to work. Yes on the long underpants, probably not on the goggles.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)you survive it."
So, yeah, I survive in Hoth. So far.
Warpy
(111,417 posts)We're going up into the 60s by the end of the week, not terribly unusual, although rare for the beginning of February. It usually happens just before a front comes in with a snowstorm and near zero temperatures. I don't think it'll be like that this year.
I don't think anyone east of the Rockies can appreciate just how dry it is this year. Everybody will be choking on smoke east of here when fire season really hits. That's how dry.
avebury
(10,953 posts)Several years ago we had a Meterologist on one of the local channels who would report the weather for Hannibal's Crossing, Maine (always an extremely outrageous report) and it was always a kind of running gag. One year my uncle from Oklahoma and another attorney from Texas came up to monitor a court case for Oklahoma and Texas in the month of January. My parents invited them over to the house and then took them out to dinner. They were watching the weather report when all of a sudden one of them (I can't remember which one now) sat up and said "Wow, did you see the temperature for Hannibal's Crossing? It is like 60 below zero (or something like that). My parents and I just broke out laughing and had to tell them that it was a fake weather report.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)... but I actually quite like snow...