Well, the city is basically paralyzed. No one ever expected it to get this bad this fast. There is a solid two inches of ice on some roads, people are ditching their vehicles and taking shelter in places like home depot, and apparently some children had to spend the night on a frickin bus because emergency vehicles can't get anywhere. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...s-atlanta-strands-thousands-of-schoolchildren
If I was on the schoolboard, the person who decided to open schools would be fired and never allowed to make any kind of decisions about children again. It is insane to me that in a city which has NO capacity to cope with snow would risk anything if there was any chance of snow or ice. Glad you got home safe Haki, I hope everyone else is as lucky and safe.
Yeah... that was sorta dumb. But hope that it works out for peoples, ice can be a tricky thing to deal with. It's even worse when those people don't know how to handle driving on it/don't have the tires for it. While I type this from work, there's 4 CM of snow falling outside... and it's hard for me to imagine never really seeing it before.
I just was reading the mayor's response. If I lived in the city I would be furious at him right now. They could have done a lot of things to prepare for this. Including, but not limited to contracting another state or company to lay down brine or sand to help with the major roads. This is not an issue with individuals. This is a massive failure by the local government. In a city like that with no way of clearing roads, they should have erred on the side of caution.
Knoxville is shut down too. Not as bad but we had 3-5 hour delays getting kids home from school that got out at 10am. Still a lot of people with cars stuck on the side of the road. Wife and I are stuck - our neighborhood has a 50-60 degree hill up as the only road out and even 4WD trucks are struggling to get out. Plus it's a county road so it wouldn't get treated anyway.
I see where you're your coming from, gihz, but no one expected it to freeze over as fast as it did. Salt trucks were sent out about 9:00 in the morning, and the snow didn't start until about 11. The roads were all but impassable inside an hour. The good news is that there were hundreds of people out helping move cars and bring hot food to stranded drivers around residential areas, and several department and hardware stores stayed open to work as shelters. Sorry to hear knoxville got hit hard too. Stay warm up there.
You US guys (and gals) have it rough, but that kind of weather is norm in finland right now and even here people still gets suprised after those fast hitting snowstorms. when you get 25-30cm of snow in short period of time.
Yep. Salt only really works on the ice when it's within a −18 °C or 0 °F tolerance. Anything below that is too cold for the salt to work correctly.
Yeah, schools in my hometown of panama city preemptively decided to close schools today even if it looked like we would only be getting sleet instead of real snow. I think it was a good idea since last time it snowed in panama city there were like 100 car accidents through the course of one day, which is a lot for a small town.
Wow I'm a little under 300 miles south of you and got like an inch of snow, if that. Luckily I still got the day off.
Charlotte was smart for once. They cancelled schools started sending the kids home around 12:30 PM yesterday (about when it started snowing for half the city maybe an hour before the snow started. most of the snow wasn't coming down till around 3 or 4.) pretty much closed down here and we only got maybe a quarter of inch on the southern side of the city (we always get less though) uptown and north got much more though.
No, but we were at least forewarned, so it doesn't seem like people are going to get trapped in their cars this time. Outside my apartment. That isn't snow, BTW, its a solid sheet o ice about an inch thick.
Damn. Nothing is supposed to start here in Knox Vegas until about the time I head home so I should be able to outrun most of it.
