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If we ever get the EMP, nuke or other, I think this illustrates why unassing an urban center is a wise idea.
I heard an interview with a school official who was making excuses why kids were stranded in buses. He tried to play it off as an emergency until the reporter asked him if he had seen a weather report prior to the storm.
He sounded just like an Oblammy speech: "Uhmm, ahhhhh, errrrrr."
It was hilarious.
And I know you guys who have put lived there don't understand. It isn't like the snow we have here. It typically turns to instant ice. People have no clue how to drive in it. Over 100 car accidents in a few hours. People abandon their cars and try to walk the highway (really smart).
Emergency crews had the task of rescuing kids stranded on busses. I think they have something like 10 sand trucks.
the plows I saw working at the airport were like the snow removal pickup trucks we have here, not big plows.
kids stayed overnight in schools, even high schoolers. People ran out of gas trying to stay warm in their cars. They don't prepare like most of us with a blanket and jacket in the vehicle during winter.
airlines don't have a big supply of deicing fluid so probably 80-90% of flights cancelled. When I came in I was the only one on frequency, not a plane within a 40 mile ring. Typically they stack us 5 miles apart then 2.5-3 miles apart on final to land.
But I have seen this happen I think 3-4 times in 7 years, only 2 were to this extreme including this one. It is rare enough that people don't really need to prepare for it. Probably equivalent to us being stuck in a massive blizzard that causes all major highways to shut down completely for a length of time, not being able to drive anywhere due to pure ice on the roads.
It wasn't the snow that shut it down. It was the 60s the previous few days and then the snow with rapidly falling temps. Turned the melting snow to ice, much like it does here.
However we are equipped to deal with it, and our traffic still comes to a standstill. I grew up down that way GA/AL... I'd maybe seen 2" of snow in the 17 1/2 years I was there. But I have seen snow turn to ice as soon as it hit... I've seen 2" of ice on everything.
The idiots here have more practice in times of actual blizzards. They know to release people incrementally or to shut down in advance... Yet they still manage to fuck up.
We don't have the infrastructure to deal with the rain we got this summer... But down there they do..
I'm sure they were laughing at our pitiful drainage system here.
Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.
I have family down there that at least has the sense to stay the hell off the roads. I lived in Chattanooga and Savannah. Sometimes a freeze warning will close the schools...
It's just that they kept saying "digging out". Two inches isn't enough to bury anything. I understand all the problems with ice.
To be fair, it's not the snow that's got them trapped. The ground is warm there, so when it snows, the warm soil/asphalt and direct sun start to melt it down rather quickly. Night falls, and suddenly it's nothing but a sheet of ice on every road. Combine those conditions with vehicles that use highway/touring tires, 2WD, and no experience, and you've got a problem.
That said, camping out in Home Depot and children being abandoned at school because their parents couldn't be bothered to walk a mile in 40 degree weather is indeed laughable. The scary part is...what will America do when a real threat hits? Guess us "crazy, paranoid preppers" aren't so nuts after all, huh?
I do feel bad for those folks down there. Unusual inclement weather is always stressful.
I grew up in fla, it snowed twice and tbe people just couldn't imagine the possiblilty of functioning in snow, I had 4x4 even back then so it wasn't so bad
Me too... I'm convinced the dumbest people on the planet live in ATL. I'm glad to be out of there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Limited GM
Edit: Ok, I agree it was just ice, not really snow, and that shit sucks. I remember an ice storm in college that left 1.5" of pure clear ice on everything. Branches were broken, power lines down everywhere, car doors physically could not be opened because they were iced shut, etc.... even then, it was not that bad. People were just driving slowly, avoiding hills, stopping each other at the top of hills because they knew what would happen, not just watching the other cars wreck and laughing... There are plenty of cases where good people were going out of their ways to help this time around too, but the uptick in idiocy compared to 10 years ago is what is so surprising and dramatic to me.
This crazy weather and system of natural disasters is seriously wreaking havoc. I imagine the prepper sites will be getting a workout after all is said and done.