One of the locals news guys:
"For all you Yankees laughing at GA for being shut down by two inches of snow, let's talk about what really happened: At noon, it started snowing. All of the schools, at once, decided to close without any advance notice around 1:30. It was basically, "Hey, we're closed now! come get your kids!" At the same time, most businesses closed. So that's roughly 5 million people who all got on the roads at the same time, which clearly caused a massive traffic jam. Then, while they're out there, the snow gets worse, turns into slush, and then, eventually, full-on sheets of ice. And, while everyone was in gridlock, they couldn't reload the salt trucks because the gridlock was too thick to navigate back to the salt storage areas (we have 30 trucks & 40 plows in ATL proper), so the ice situation got worse and worse, until short trips became hours-long and some folks ditched their cars and walked. And, there's a good number of kids and staff spending the night at the schools tonight because there's too much ice for the buses to run safely to take them home. Also, GADOT is saying there were around 940 major accidents today.It was like a gym teach blew a whistle and said, "GO!!!!" and everyone in Atlanta jumped in their cars and started driving."
That's horrible. I see that both the governor and mayor are scrambling with excuses - that they should have staggered the traffic and times people left and such. My son was on his way back from a trip to California and his flight was sent right to.....yep, you guessed it - Atlanta. And this was on Wednesday. He said it's like a war zone. Thankfully, he was able to get a hotel room, but won't be able to get a flight out until at least Friday am. I just don't get why flights were allowed to even land there.
