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One to two inches of snow fell on Atlanta Tuesday and the city was paralyzed (Original Post) DainBramaged Jan 2014 OP
I'm much further south than Atlanta Aerows Jan 2014 #1
That's sleet. Mariana Jan 2014 #13
It has turned into ice Aerows Jan 2014 #27
I've spent many years in "How Do You People Live Like This"... TwilightGardener Jan 2014 #2
I visited up there Aerows Jan 2014 #4
A little snow is kind of fun around Christmas. The rest of the time, it's TwilightGardener Jan 2014 #12
Well, have you ever seen Atlanta's road system? Scootaloo Jan 2014 #3
It IS Aerows Jan 2014 #5
Bingo! I invite anyone to come enjoy rush hour on a regular day... Phentex Jan 2014 #6
Can I just sever an important body part instead? Aerows Jan 2014 #8
LOL! Phentex Jan 2014 #11
The best thing? Scootaloo Jan 2014 #7
It's worse than Houston Aerows Jan 2014 #9
maple bacon bar DainBramaged Jan 2014 #16
Maple bar, with a strip of bacon on top. Scootaloo Jan 2014 #18
I agree that driving in Atlanta sucks big time. RebelOne Jan 2014 #23
Can't be too many Catholics in Atlanta Aerows Jan 2014 #25
I used to deliver pizzas to Midtown and Downtown. Mariana Jan 2014 #15
"Exciting" Aerows Jan 2014 #24
Take Peachtree to the intersection of Peachtree & Peachtree, go left till you see The Big Chicken, Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #30
Thanks Obama! Boom Sound 416 Jan 2014 #10
HOTH? Armstead Jan 2014 #14
Hoth BumRushDaShow Jan 2014 #20
At 15 F it's a beautiful sunny day in this part of "how do people live like this" HereSince1628 Jan 2014 #17
It's on fire Jamaal510 Jan 2014 #19
I love Hoth... bobclark86 Jan 2014 #21
10 years ago I moved to northern Hoth. Or rather, as the natives put it, "You don't live in Maine, magical thyme Jan 2014 #22
"Unusually cool" should be "parched." Warpy Jan 2014 #26
I grew up in Maine. avebury Jan 2014 #28
I live in Hoth... Squinch Jan 2014 #29
 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
1. I'm much further south than Atlanta
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:22 PM
Jan 2014

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

(14,830 posts)
13. That's sleet.
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 04:23 PM
Jan 2014

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)
27. It has turned into ice
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:51 PM
Jan 2014

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)
2. I've spent many years in "How Do You People Live Like This"...
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:30 PM
Jan 2014

it's actually better known to the natives as "Why The Fuck Do We Live Here?".

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
4. I visited up there
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:45 PM
Jan 2014

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)
12. A little snow is kind of fun around Christmas. The rest of the time, it's
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 04:21 PM
Jan 2014

depressing, annoying, or potentially deadly. I have no further use for it.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
3. Well, have you ever seen Atlanta's road system?
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:43 PM
Jan 2014

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!

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
5. It IS
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:47 PM
Jan 2014

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

(16,329 posts)
6. Bingo! I invite anyone to come enjoy rush hour on a regular day...
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:49 PM
Jan 2014

then add rain. Then add a baseball game. Then add DragonCon. Then add snow. Come on! It'll be FUN!

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
7. The best thing?
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 03:52 PM
Jan 2014

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.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
23. I agree that driving in Atlanta sucks big time.
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:21 PM
Jan 2014

I live just northwet of Atlanta and try to avoid driving down there if at all possible.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
25. Can't be too many Catholics in Atlanta
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:31 PM
Jan 2014

because a priest would need to be on hand to bless you every time you got into your car.

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
30. Take Peachtree to the intersection of Peachtree & Peachtree, go left till you see The Big Chicken,
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 06:30 PM
Jan 2014

then go a far piece till you get to Peachtree and ask Neal at the gas station.

BumRushDaShow

(126,616 posts)
20. Hoth
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jan 2014


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)
17. At 15 F it's a beautiful sunny day in this part of "how do people live like this"
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 04:28 PM
Jan 2014

If every winter day was like this no one here would complain.

bobclark86

(1,415 posts)
21. I love Hoth...
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:06 PM
Jan 2014

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)
22. 10 years ago I moved to northern Hoth. Or rather, as the natives put it, "You don't live in Maine,
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:13 PM
Jan 2014

you survive it."

So, yeah, I survive in Hoth. So far.

Warpy

(110,746 posts)
26. "Unusually cool" should be "parched."
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:42 PM
Jan 2014

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

(10,941 posts)
28. I grew up in Maine.
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:55 PM
Jan 2014

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.

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