I will not SNOW PLOW WITH YOU, ATLANTA!

[freshwest]

17. Where I live, any snow or ice means the DOT stays up all night and gets positioned for action.

But schools and businesses are very reluctant to close. It makes it a necessity to keep the roads going unless it's day after day of snow and stuff. Then those who are going to work have to depend on mass transit. And at times, that does not work as well as one might think. But we are not usually taking the brunt of such things.

I don't put down the folks in Atlanta at all and don't know why anyone would. But have read a spat of threads today going back and forth on this. I grew up in a city where only one inch of snow was sufficient to shut down the schools, etc. We just did not 'believe' in snow. I don't fault Atlanta.

The scenes in Atlanta of the gridlock were no different than Houston when evacuating from a hurricane. People died as ambulances could not get through and cars were running out of gasoline and getting stuck. The Gulf Freeway starts at the beach and ends up in Dallas, roughly speaking. Millions of people trying to get away. It's okay.

Sometimes the best of planning will fail:

Within a week or so, I and most neighbors didn't bother to go out. People were scooting around on jet skis or walking over snow and ice.

Hold your head up proud, Atlanta! Elect Carter and Nunn and go blue!