AND the south has inadequate equipment, employees that aren't trained in road preparation for a storm, and no budget for the rock/sand/salt.
We're doing fine up here Cam :) I didn't see the post - sorry. I've been working away of course .. no snow day for me. We've stayed off the roads, other than a quick trip yesterday morning .. but that was when it was all snow still and coming down. We also had no traffic really - since we're in the boonies. We were supposed to head to Asheville in the morning, but the entire region is still under a winter weather advisory, black ice on all the roads. As of this afternoon, this is what some of the local main roads still looked like: http://screencast.com/t/RvYaeY2kJ So overnight, that's going to be nothing but ice. Yay. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > Anyhow enjoy the snow day. I keep forgetting that people in the south > > don't know how to drive in snow. > > > > While this is not a completely untrue statement and there are plenty of > terrible drivers in Atlanta... > > 1) There is n such thing as "snow" on the roads in Atlanta. It's ice. 100% > ice. Due to weather and other factors, it turns to ice virtually > immediately, all the time, every time. Every. Time. > > 2) More than half of people currently living in Atlanta are transplants > from somewhere that makes them say "I'm from East BumbleSnow, so I know how > to drive in this weather". After making this statement, these transplants > walk right out the door, get in their cars with a shit eating grin on their > face, and almost immediately slide on the ice (which they thought was snow) > directly into another car. So, I have to call total bullshit on this > anytime I hear it. > > 3) Even if no southerner can drive in the snow... In this specific case, > driving ability was not a factor. Check it out: > http://www.businessinsider.com/why-all-altanta-is-stuck-in-traffic-2014-1 > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:369399 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
