Snails - Response on Threads Part 3
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Morning Meggars!
I'm surprised you don't get called Meg, especially considering your avy!
Meggers, Megs, Meg...Charles...people call me whatever they want. Which, at times, isn't suitable for this forum. morning, meggers! my kittens are out exploring the snow
I love it when animals(or small children)see snow for the first time. They're like...WTH? 
Two of life's long standing questions finally answered!
Usually they close everything when snow is predicted, because we don't have the infrastructure or the experience to deal with it. The computer models were wrong about where the weather would go, when it would get here and how much it would be. Instead of a dusting we got the first inch in less than an hour. The last time they blew a forecast this badly in this manner was in the early 80's...and the effect was similar. They blew forecasting for the blizzard of 93 also... so every decade or two isn't too horrible of a track record. We'll be talking about this for the next 30 years too
Mass transit? we don't have that either.
Yeah...you Southerners can't drive in the snow. But when they showed it on the news this morning(all them people stuck on the highways)it looked more like ice on the road and by the way people were trying to walk...I think it's the ice that screwed you all. 
Morning Haze, Cnew and Meggers.
It's ice now and likely the snow was packed down into ice pretty quickly. It's sounding mor eand more like the roads had deteriorated almost an hour before they started sending people home.
Haze, how close are you to the Atlanta snowpocalypse? Atlanta makes us look like we're in pretty reasonable shape. It also looks like your politicians are getting lots of heat for not-pretreating the roads.
It's ice now and likely the snow was packed down into ice pretty quickly. It's sounding mor eand more like the roads had deteriorated almost an hour before they started sending people home.
Haze, how close are you to the Atlanta snowpocalypse? Atlanta makes us look like we're in pretty reasonable shape. It also looks like your politicians are getting lots of heat for not-pretreating the roads.
Hi CES!!
Luckily I'm north of the mess and yes, it's ugly. The local authorities definitely got caught with their pants down and it's hard to figure out why. We knew Atlanta was going to get some snow, granted not as much as ended up falling but still. They should have had the situation better in hand but didn't even start to do anything until the snow showed up. I guess they were hoping it was going to be light or pass by entirely ...
Luckily I'm north of the mess and yes, it's ugly. The local authorities definitely got caught with their pants down and it's hard to figure out why. We knew Atlanta was going to get some snow, granted not as much as ended up falling but still. They should have had the situation better in hand but didn't even start to do anything until the snow showed up. I guess they were hoping it was going to be light or pass by entirely ...
Glad that you're well out of that mess Haze. I know here that the models were wrong and they just flat out blew the forecast.
Thank You!
I'm glad you got home safe too; it was pretty hazardous where you were for certain!
The forecasts I saw all indicated that Atlanta was likely to get around 3'' of snow, which isn't a lot relatively speaking but as you well know, in this part of the country, even that little bit of snow causes big problems. I won't even bother getting into the idiot drivers portion of the equation ...
Problem where I live is that every inch of snow equals a foot of drift on the roads. Last year in February, March, April and May...we got hammered! We had six foot drifts across our road! I hope winter stops when it's supposed to...like...in March!
'Allo Meggers! 
Hi CES!!
Luckily I'm north of the mess and yes, it's ugly. The local authorities definitely got caught with their pants down and it's hard to figure out why. We knew Atlanta was going to get some snow, granted not as much as ended up falling but still. They should have had the situation better in hand but didn't even start to do anything until the snow showed up. I guess they were hoping it was going to be light or pass by entirely ...
I've yet to see, in recent times, government handling a situation such that everyone is happy. They do the best they can.
People are never happy.
They can do more, if you pay for more.
People hate paying more.
lol.
Politics.
Still, I take your point. They totally missed the forecasts and had the trucks in the wrong area, as I hear it. I'm glad you're OK. I hope that whatever "they" do is sufficient. Wishing you and all there good luck and a safe snow day.
morning, meggers! my kittens are out exploring the snow
Hehehe...I'll never forget when my little kids (2 and 4) and our dog saw their first snow in Connecticut...
They forecast 3 inches for you? if they called the snow beforehand, then they really did mess up by not pretreating the roads. Here at least they just had bad information.
Atty, you have a point...they get lambasted here for cancelling when nothing happens...and for cancelling at the height of a storm.
Good morning Katya
Atty, you have a point...they get lambasted here for cancelling when nothing happens...and for cancelling at the height of a storm.
Good morning Katya
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