Reply #115

We live one lot from the end on a dead end road, no other way out and there were only about half a dozen of us without power so we were a low priority repair. The roads were really treacherous for at least four days since Atlanta really isn't prepared for major winter storms like a lot of colder places, I wouldn't have gone anywhere even if our road wasn't blocked.

Ice storms aren't quite as predictable as hurricanes, you usually only get a few hours warning if that and not that many people can leave, it's just not physically possible for the roads to take them all.

When it's freezing ass cold outside and a bit warmer inside you tend to stay inside, when it's sweltering hot without AC you're better off outside and in the shade at least in the daytime through evening. Here in Atlanta we get the best of both worlds, the occasional ice storm/blizzard (1992) in the winter and near-Gulf-coast heat and humidity every summer.

I camped in a tent from New Orleans to Key West to Myrtle Beach every hundred miles or so following the coast one summer so yeah, I've tried to sleep without AC on the Gulf coast.

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