Going to Atlanta ...

[Shoeless Joe]

Set Milk-Con 4!

My wife was just looking at the traffic cameras from Atlanta and laughing. For us in the mountain, snow is part of January and February. For folks in Georgia, not so much. Be safe out there.

 

[playthrough]

Houston's was our favorite restaurant while growing up in ATL, there's one in Buckhead and another in Lenox. The chicken tenders aren't on the menu anymore but they'll make 'em if asked. Delicious.

 

[imjustagirl]

According to the news, it's now 2 inches in metro Atlanta.

Here's a photo of I-20 as of 6:25 p.m. People are just abandoning their cars on the road. They're running out of gas from the 5-6 hour commute. It's like a zombie apocalypse out there!

 

[TwoGloves]

Starting to think I won't get out in the morning ...

 

[Machine Head]

According to the news, it's now 2 inches in metro Atlanta.

Here's a photo of I-20 as of 6:25 p.m. People are just abandoning their cars on the road. They're running out of gas from the 5-6 hour commute. It's like a zombie apocalypse out there!

Same as 1996. I was on the Perimeter:

After an inch or two of snow fell in Atlanta on Sunday, a city of highways unaccustomed to extreme winter conditions became a city of slide-ways. By today, hundreds of inexperienced Southern drivers had slipped and skidded across icy and snow-covered roads and into trees, retaining walls and each other.

Cars spun 360 degrees, city buses swerved uncontrollably into oncoming traffic, and critical stretches of interstate highways closed down while police cleared multicar pileups. Hundreds of drivers abandoned vehicles on the roadside. Fender-benders became so numerous that many Atlanta area police departments stopped answering calls unless accidents involved injuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/us/the-blizzard-of-1996-the-nation-from-boston-to-atlanta-everything-stops.html

 

[Buck]

The governor declared a state of emergency.
For an inch of snow?

 

[imjustagirl]

IT'S TWO INCHES.

And yes. Down here, that's the equivalent of 12 inches in the North.

 

[Tarheel316]

I remember Houlihan's in Marietta as being a hotspot. Of course that was 20 years ago.

 

[Machine Head]

Jack and Jill's.

EDIT: Jocks and Jills. In the CNN Center. Closed, hot spot 20 years ago.

I need a drink.

 

[TwoGloves]

IT'S TWO INCHES.

And yes. Down here, that's the equivalent of 12 inches in the North.

I got snowed in during a trip to Dallas this month because we got 18 inches in one day at home. Dallas was fine but we couldn't land here.

 

[imjustagirl]

Traffic map.

 

[Buck]

IT'S TWO INCHES.

And yes. Down here, that's the equivalent of 12 inches in the North.

I understand it's really unusual, and no one is accustomed to it.
But still seems silly.

 

[imjustagirl]

It is. Completely silly. I was just saying.

 

[Riptide]

IT'S TWO INCHES.

And yes. Down here, that's the equivalent of 12 inches in the North.

I understand it's really unusual, and no one is accustomed to it.
But still seems silly.

"Snow? Holy ****! We'd better get home. DRIVE FASTER!"

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If what's happening in Atlanta is anything like normal in the South, they got ice first and then snow. It's that base layer of ice that Fs things up at first. And the lack of snowplows.

 

[imjustagirl]

Hawks game is postponed for tonight. 85 is still at a dead stop down by the airport ... news just said a trailer truck is 1 mile from the airport and probably won't make it today.

 

[cranberry]

Chipper Jones rescued Freddie Freeman with his four-wheeler.

http://deadspin.com/chipper-jones-rescued-freddie-freeman-in-the-snowstorm-1511430389

 

[novelist_wannabe]

That seals it, Chipper's a first-ballot HOFer.

As for the gridlock, there were several factors. The Governor and Atlanta Mayor are getting skewered in a press conference right now.

 

[Vombatus]

That seals it, Chipper's a first-ballot HOFer.

As for the gridlock, there were several factors. The Governor and Atlanta Mayor are getting skewered in a press conference right now.

Didn't DC's Mayor Marion Barry get skewered about snow once?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

State and city government officials insist they were prepared, but if they didn't consider having Berry come and snort up all the snow, I'd label that a stone unturned ...