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NightWatcher

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4. individuals should take some responsibility. If you live around Atlanta you know what traffic's like

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 01:15 PM

Jan 2014

I hate that some people waited until the snow started coming down before they decided to go home...too late. I was laughing with my dad in Savannah that he needed to stock up on beer this weekend because the blizzard was coming. We all saw it coming.

Just as in Florida and the Gulf in hurricane season. If I can use my brain and computer to see that a big storm is coming, I'm not going to wait til the suit on tv tells me to go to home depot for supplies or to evacuate.

Sometimes you have to save yourself.

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The problem in Atlanta , Birmingham and other Southern cities. [View all] Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 OP

Exactly, thank you. I live 40 miles NORTH of Atlanta Glitterati Jan 2014 #1

Even that far out, Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #3

Same here. I live in Woodstock, just northwest of Atlanta, RebelOne Jan 2014 #20

Weather readers mostly get the forecast nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #2

That's my point. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #5

The NWS at times goofs nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #14

I have lived in several places along the East coast Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #21

Here it matters when we have a winter storm nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #26

Actually, we have serveral local weather persons Glitterati Jan 2014 #6

But both are getting their forecast nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #10

What's your point? Glitterati Jan 2014 #12

My point is they are using NWS product nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #17

Of course it is. Glitterati Jan 2014 #19

I think we are all agreeing on the same point in different ways. nt Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #23

We are nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #27

I'd like to slap all of them. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #13

Oh me, too Glitterati Jan 2014 #18

individuals should take some responsibility. If you live around Atlanta you know what traffic's like NightWatcher Jan 2014 #4

Posted this on Facebook on January 26 Glitterati Jan 2014 #7

I tried to point that out too. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #8

I lived between Cornelia and Gainesville when we had an ice storm several years ago NightWatcher Jan 2014 #11

Some folks need their job to eat. Can't afford to get fired Glitterati Jan 2014 #15

your boss isn't going to come save you when you've frozen on the side of the road NightWatcher Jan 2014 #28

Right. And lose your job. Glitterati Jan 2014 #31

then take a sleeping bag to work. or spend 20 hours on the road freezing NightWatcher Jan 2014 #32

Oh, so maybe you shouldn't be demeaning them for not calling out? Glitterati Jan 2014 #34

And if telling a certain person to pound sand Are_grits_groceries Jan 2014 #16

tell them in the nicest possible way, of course NightWatcher Jan 2014 #30

People in Atlanta aren't used to heeding cold weather warnings - it's not like hurricane evacs Baclava Jan 2014 #9

Yeah. Late Tuesday night, my dad texted me about an ecstatic Jan 2014 #24

Live and learn Baclava Jan 2014 #33

Learning experience ecstatic Jan 2014 #22

Until the next one Glitterati Jan 2014 #25

This is somewhat unrelated, Jamaal510 Jan 2014 #29

the problem here isn't snow - it's ICE - ice storms like this require certain conditions Baclava Jan 2014 #35

30 miles north of Atlanta.... BronxBoy Jan 2014 #36