Everyone talking about how that’s nothing up north, tell me why when there’s a “heat wave” in Chicago or something, like 40 people die. Which would be an average summer day for us.
If 40 people dying from heat a day were an "average" during ANY year it would make headlines in World News. Michigan, Illinois (the state Chicago is located in) & all other winter states face temperature deaths. We have many winter cold fatalities & even fatalities caused by summer heat. So now what?
I suppose if that were true the difference would be northerners are not physically accustomed to hot weather and southerners lack the basic mental capacity to figure out ice=slippery
Because weather that kills people is news. The people saying it aren't concerned about the 39 that were on deaths doorstep nor the one left in the car while shopping gets done. People die more often when their environment changes and stresses their body. Noone asks these days how many Covid-19 deaths were of people with neverending medical charts. You get what you pay for.
I recall this day all too well. My commute is 50 miles across 2 interstates, one way. I called in. I wasn’t leaving my kids to have to fend for themselves. Traffic is awful on dry days. I knew it was going to be a challenge getting home. Plus, where I live, I wasn’t going to chance sliding off of the road without guardrails and not be found until Spring. It was a very stressful and scary time. If it happens again, I’m at the little house on the prairie.
I saw these words of wisdom before I saw Dr. in front of your name. I was going to ask why it took you so many words to say, "I took a Snow Day." I guess a better question is why the politicians couldn't say it.
@@truthsRsung We live in the mountains mostly. Half the roads are steep hills with massive drop offs. Have fun driving down a hill with ice and snow when there is a 100 ft drop off with no guard rails. The only hope of surviving is the trees catch your car. Which I saw happen during this storm
Management at a job I was inspecting said they'd be working that day, regardless. I reported at 0700, just as my phone rang telling me not to report. I transported lab specimens to my office in Marietta and logged them in, leaving just as the snow started. I got a mile before seeing a van sliding backward into the monument sign in front of a church and overturning. By staying as much as possible on lightly traveled backroads I got back to Buckhead (Atlanta, not Walton County) in about an hour, and settled in for the long term.
I slept in rite aid on this night. It’s known as the snowpocalypse. Had unlimited food and me, two employees and a couple of customers stood in the back alley having a fire in the middle of the alley cause no cars could drive around. Smoked some bowls and listened to some good music, was a fun night
I remember this. It was horrible. I have a 50 minute commute and it took two hours to get home. Cars were swerving and crashing on ice all around; very traumatic. I prayed and was nervous the whole ride. When I finally got to my exit I stopped at the gas station and cried, just thankful to make it close to home. It was a nightmare watching crash after crash and praying no one ran into you and that you didn't run into anyone. I think my saving grace was I just bought a new set of Michelin tires. I try to buy their tires no matter how expensive they are. With God's grace and good tread I got home safely.
I was in it. Normal commute was under 15 minutes. My employer did not initially intend to let anyone leave early. They eventually let us leave at 1. Took two hours to get out of my parking lot. I got home at 9PM. I was very lucky I had a 4WD SUV specifically equipped for snow, because I sometimes drove in mountain areas with ice and snow. The roads were OK. But it was all the other drivers who made it slow and dangerous.
I'd have to differ with you. There was a single-car overturned vehicle wreck at the exit from my office park about fifteen minutes after the first flakes on Sandy Plains Road in Marietta. It's not the eighteen-wheelers, it's the idiots who don't know when to say "no".
5610winston Ok But I was on I- 285 for six hours. The cars were moving. It was the big trucks that couldn't move. We were maneuvering around them. It took hours to finally get off the interstate. They were stuck. The cars weren't.
The driver at 1:20 summed it up perfectly! No shit the road crews couldn't get through traffic! Did it ever dawn on them to salt BEFORE instead of after? It's not like they didn't know the storm was coming!
Brian Zaborowski idiot they said we would get flurries but not a full out snow storm it changed unexpectedly. we get flurries but do not salt the roads because this does not happen often but now we prepare because there is a snowstrom right now and they salted all the roads near emergency places and major roads
@@kierandavis1190 Not to mention the fact that it's rarely ever snow only ice. It'll rain that day and as the temperature drops the rain will turn into sleet and then snow but by that time it's freezing and turns into solid ice. We never have a chance to experience having snow on the streets. On top of that Atlanta is filled with hills and curves. Imagine driving on curvy hills on top of solid ice. It's not going to happen.
That's cuz they not smart to keep their selves hydrated but I'm from Michigan and we get some strong heat summers not waves, and I met some people from south Texas that were shocked that it gets hot up here, and we all know how to handle all types of weather
I was in 7th grade when this happened. My dad left work at 12 noon, he didn't get home until 3AM. We did get an additional two weeks off of school though.
Yep I had school in Atlanta but lived 45 mins south. I parked at a train station next to the highway. I left classes on the first snow flake, took the train back and hit the road before it started sticking. Anyways my commute was only delayed an hour before. I’m soo glad I didn’t get stuck in it.
I also was able to take the train from downtown to my home. The delay was minor only because I waited for a less crowded train car. I have never seen the train so packed. It was like Mexico City. No personal space whatsoever with everyone packed in like sardines
All-wheel-drive is a great idea, and it can get you going as fast on an ice sheet as on dry pavement. Problem is, even the best traction control in the world can't keep a car careening at forty miles per hour on track, or stop it in an emergency.
I remember I was in Grad school at the time. My mom had called me the night before saying it was gonna snow. I just scoffed it off. But the next day I woke up something told me to stay home. Many of my classmates got stuck at GSU. Mother knows best
You say people acted like it as if they all choose to lose traction and get stuck on the roads all night. Also ice and snow are very different. It’s way harder to get traction on ice.
One of the crazy things about this storm was the temperature went from the upper 30s that morning to the upper 10s by nightfall... woke up to low to mid 10s the next day... the forecast didn't account for temperatures dropping that low.
What a lot of peope dont realize is that it wasnt snow. It was rain, and the temperature plummeted so ridiculously fast that the roads glazed over, in a few hours. By rush hour , which is worse here than most cities on the planet, the roads were iced....before the snow. And...what blocked all the highways were the truckers; confident, and cruising through. They all jackknifed everywhere.I doubt they were all southern truckers. If I remember right , the temperature went from 70 to 20, fast. I think there were like several hundred THOUSAND cars abandoned on the highways. I saw it coming so I bailed from work, barely in time. It doesnt matter how much skill you have, you cant drive on a sheet of ice. Its the most well known ice over, but its happened 3 or 4 times in my 45 years in Atlanta. 20 years ago we had an ice storm that brought down trees and limbs everywhere, crippling the power grid across the metro. It broke a 30 foot tall coniferous tree in my front yard in half. We live 5 miles from downtown, and we were without power for a week. Its been a while, but we get ice storms...very different than a snow storm. It looks beautiful and insane. A layer of ice one everything. In 2014, I think it was, folks in my neighborhood were stuck....because there was a 2" thick sheet of ice over the steep road leading out. I have videos of my kids sledding down the road...with no sled; just their body. Like an ice rink on a steep hill. The greatest point of the story is how the southern hospitality came out. Folks walked from their homes to the highways to help the stranded. Many opened their homes to strangers.
That makes more sense. I’m a midwesterner and I thought it was funny that a city was brought to a standstill from 2 inches of snow but ice makes more sense. I’ve been in Atlanta traffic before and it’s miserable I’d hate to go through it in ice and snow with souther drivers
One of the worst nights of my life! It took me about 12 hours to get home on a normal 20 minute trip. If you ever watched the shows The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead streets of abandon vehicles, that was Atlanta. Luckily, I made it home about 3am in the morning because I knew if you didn't make home that night, it would be a lot worse in the morning and it was. I had some buddies that didn't get home until the next night. Moral of the story was to me, always keep sunflower seeds and a bottle of water in the car.
Totally. Especially in Atlanta I saw it coming, though I thought it was just snow. I bailed from work in Sandy Springs about 3, as soon as it stared snowing. I barely made it out of the driveway I was parked in. I ended up putting my van in reverse, and letting it roll forward. It worked. That was after trying to normally drive out; that wasnt going to work. I got lucky and made it home to Decatur on back roads. I got lucky.
The problem is where we are there are major Hills and curves everywhere. We don't have any flat land and we rarely ever get snow it's always ice. I know it looks like snow on TV but believe me is actually not and it's hard to drive on with curves and Hills.
OMG. I'm from the Deep South but have lived in snowy places (Omaha, upstate NY). Unbelievable that two inches of snow could paralyze an entire city and be treated as a natural disaster.
i’m from ny so it’s weird to think that people aren’t used to having a dusting every day in winter, or don’t have guardrails all along the roads it amazes me that people can have this much of a panic over something i’m so used to
I remember that Strom that year (2013). Everyone all round me in my neighborhood lost power except me (no, I didn't have a generator at all). Trees were falling down all though out the neighborhood, it sounded like a war zone! Every few minutes you could hear Trees falling and cracking. That was a strange year, in 2013.
I currently live in Hawaii but when I lived in Atlanta (Lawrenceville) I remember it was January and black ice formed on the roads. I had to go to work and at the time, I had a chevy tracker. It was the mall of Georgia where I worked and I remember, as I was driving my tracker it was slipping and sliding I was like nope, and went back home.
Smart man. I live here part time and spend the other half on Maui. I can’t handle cold weather any more. Speaking of which - bout time to get on a plane to OGG…😂
I think I was in 5th or 4th grade during this this was the best week ever kinda wish I got to spend the night at school with my friends lol but this storm taught me one thing always be prepared and get a awd car lol
Because at most we get snow twice a year and they cancel schools and work typically so this normally doesn't happen only every 3 years does a snowpocalypse happen 2011 2014 2017 where a bad snow wipes out the city
@Google User That or all season tires. They don't sell winter tires down here, but they do sell all season tires. The best way to avoid this mess is to make sure you have all season tires if you live down here in the South. You don't have to worry about changing out between summer and winter tires, and you will have better traction in the rain and snow. 4wd and AWD will get you going, but it's the tires that will give you the traction to stop. You are right about needing the proper tires, all season tires are the way to go if you live in the sun belt.
Most tires sold today are all season tires. The few cars driving around on summer tires are usually high performance cars. Most people already have all season tires, and this still happens. All season tires are not enough. $400-700 every 6 years for a set of proper winter tires is cheap insurance considering just one minor accident from sliding can easily cause that much damage. Plus you have a much better chance of not getting stuck, and that’s worth something too! You can special order tires in, that would be how you get your hands on a set of snows in the south.
If I had been in Atlanta schools, I would have been walking home. I don't care, I am autistic and some of my medication is important to the point where I cannot sleep without it, and it can cause a psychotic break if I don't take it.
In Minnesota, pick a day of the week... anyday... for months, December through April, this is our commute every morning and home... and no the plows with sand and salt aren't even out in full force all the time either sometimes they aren't even prepared for it but you're still expected to show up for work unless MN-DOT or the governor closes certain areas of travel... kids in this type of weather would not be expected to go to school or either have a 2 hrs late start or early dismissal, but everyone else is expected to go to work
This was a disaster because the powers that be didnt warn people in time. They knew 21 hours ahead of time and could have prevented most people from leaving their homes the night before or morning of. When they did call it it was not staggered for closures in intervening times. Everyone on the roads at once. Temps at 2-6 degrees. Ice formed fast. Expressways, roads and streets no longer thoroughfares at various points. Everyone stuck. I left work at 11:00 am and missed all of this by about 1.5 hours even though I live 22 miles from my job. Watched it unfold on the news.
me too.. i lived right onI75 in Marrietta. I thought the news was just sensationalizing it until I walked out and looked at the highway. People from my area were on the highway passing out water. My boss and co workers slept inside a Target... it really was a mess. I don't it is possible to capture what it really was like,.
I remember this, my mom coincidentally picked THIS DAY to come to have lunch with me. That year my lunch time was 10:20 AM. It began snowing around 10:30-10:40. We left at the end of lunch (10:50) and there was already ice on the road at 11:00. My school made a poor decision in not releasing the other kids until around 1:00-1:30 PM that day, leaving kids stranded.
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It's kind of hilarious that 2 inches of snow brought a city to its knees
Old Money It was the ice on the roads also!
Old Money it’s the ice not the snow
RIGHT
Ice
ICE NOT SNOW
Everyone talking about how that’s nothing up north, tell me why when there’s a “heat wave” in Chicago or something, like 40 people die. Which would be an average summer day for us.
If 40 people dying from heat a day were an "average" during ANY year it would make headlines in World News.
Michigan, Illinois (the state Chicago is located in) & all other winter states face temperature deaths. We have many winter cold fatalities & even fatalities caused by summer heat.
So now what?
Right I've been in Michigan 2yrs they be crying at 90 I'm in 2 shirts and jeans sylvan road homeboy
yes exactly!! it’s all about climate lol different places are used to different weather
I suppose if that were true the difference would be northerners are not physically accustomed to hot weather and southerners lack the basic mental capacity to figure out ice=slippery
Because weather that kills people is news.
The people saying it aren't concerned about the 39 that were on deaths doorstep nor the one left in the car while shopping gets done.
People die more often when their environment changes and stresses their body.
Noone asks these days how many Covid-19 deaths were of people with neverending medical charts.
You get what you pay for.
Bosses be like:. You still coming into work today?
😂
I recall this day all too well. My commute is 50 miles across 2 interstates, one way. I called in. I wasn’t leaving my kids to have to fend for themselves. Traffic is awful on dry days. I knew it was going to be a challenge getting home. Plus, where I live, I wasn’t going to chance sliding off of the road without guardrails and not be found until Spring. It was a very stressful and scary time. If it happens again, I’m at the little house on the prairie.
LA Ryan God bless you! That was so sweet of you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I saw these words of wisdom before I saw Dr. in front of your name.
I was going to ask why it took you so many words to say, "I took a Snow Day."
I guess a better question is why the politicians couldn't say it.
I had no idea that this even occurred and that kids and grown adults had to sleep in schools and grocery stores this is just truly insane to me
If only you knew.........
All because "Snow Day" isn't in their local vocalulary.
People also slept in their cars on the interstate all night.
@@truthsRsung We live in the mountains mostly. Half the roads are steep hills with massive drop offs. Have fun driving down a hill with ice and snow when there is a 100 ft drop off with no guard rails. The only hope of surviving is the trees catch your car. Which I saw happen during this storm
Management at a job I was inspecting said they'd be working that day, regardless.
I reported at 0700, just as my phone rang telling me not to report.
I transported lab specimens to my office in Marietta and logged them in, leaving just as the snow started.
I got a mile before seeing a van sliding backward into the monument sign in front of a church and overturning.
By staying as much as possible on lightly traveled backroads I got back to Buckhead (Atlanta, not Walton County) in about an hour, and settled in for the long term.
I slept in rite aid on this night. It’s known as the snowpocalypse. Had unlimited food and me, two employees and a couple of customers stood in the back alley having a fire in the middle of the alley cause no cars could drive around. Smoked some bowls and listened to some good music, was a fun night
I remember this. It was horrible. I have a 50 minute commute and it took two hours to get home. Cars were swerving and crashing on ice all around; very traumatic. I prayed and was nervous the whole ride. When I finally got to my exit I stopped at the gas station and cried, just thankful to make it close to home. It was a nightmare watching crash after crash and praying no one ran into you and that you didn't run into anyone. I think my saving grace was I just bought a new set of Michelin tires. I try to buy their tires no matter how expensive they are. With God's grace and good tread I got home safely.
I was in it. Normal commute was under 15 minutes. My employer did not initially intend to let anyone leave early. They eventually let us leave at 1. Took two hours to get out of my parking lot. I got home at 9PM. I was very lucky I had a 4WD SUV specifically equipped for snow, because I sometimes drove in mountain areas with ice and snow. The roads were OK. But it was all the other drivers who made it slow and dangerous.
It was the eighteen wheelers that couldn't move on that ice that gridlocked everything. The cars were fine unless on an untreated hill.
I'd have to differ with you. There was a single-car overturned vehicle wreck at the exit from my office park about fifteen minutes after the first flakes on Sandy Plains Road in Marietta. It's not the eighteen-wheelers, it's the idiots who don't know when to say "no".
5610winston Ok But I was on I- 285 for six hours. The cars were moving. It was the big trucks that couldn't move. We were maneuvering around them. It took hours to finally get off the interstate. They were stuck. The cars weren't.
@@rstryker27 whats your point though? Trucks keep america going.
ATLANTA IS STILL THE EMPIRE OF THE SOUTH!!!!!!
Really? 😂
@Lewis 970 nah
It's all about Nashville. Atlanta has gone downhill
Lewis 970 so can Memphis
Miami would like to know your location
The driver at 1:20 summed it up perfectly! No shit the road crews couldn't get through traffic! Did it ever dawn on them to salt BEFORE instead of after? It's not like they didn't know the storm was coming!
Brian Zaborowski idiot they said we would get flurries but not a full out snow storm it changed unexpectedly. we get flurries but do not salt the roads because this does not happen often but now we prepare because there is a snowstrom right now and they salted all the roads near emergency places and major roads
@@kierandavis1190 Not to mention the fact that it's rarely ever snow only ice. It'll rain that day and as the temperature drops the rain will turn into sleet and then snow but by that time it's freezing and turns into solid ice. We never have a chance to experience having snow on the streets. On top of that Atlanta is filled with hills and curves. Imagine driving on curvy hills on top of solid ice. It's not going to happen.
I remember this like it was yesterday
2:41 wow that wasnt funny. that was a real hard wipeout. hope she didnt break a bone
ya see no good deed goes unpunished
That's cuz they not smart to keep their selves hydrated but I'm from Michigan and we get some strong heat summers not waves, and I met some people from south Texas that were shocked that it gets hot up here, and we all know how to handle all types of weather
@@Edgarcast11 Hello fellow Michigander I can second that 👍
Greetings from Pennsylvania. Not gonna lie, I laughed at that sound.
Amazing that was caught on camera. If she faked that, it was pretty good.
I was in 7th grade when this happened. My dad left work at 12 noon, he didn't get home until 3AM. We did get an additional two weeks off of school though.
two weeks? why?
because y’know the snow was like around 3 inches right. But of course the ice comes along too so yeah
Yep I had school in Atlanta but lived 45 mins south. I parked at a train station next to the highway. I left classes on the first snow flake, took the train back and hit the road before it started sticking. Anyways my commute was only delayed an hour before. I’m soo glad I didn’t get stuck in it.
I also was able to take the train from downtown to my home. The delay was minor only because I waited for a less crowded train car. I have never seen the train so packed. It was like Mexico City. No personal space whatsoever with everyone packed in like sardines
The north has salt trucks and plows. Not even Canadians can drive on solid ice.
They did that lady bringing food and water so dirty when they got that vid of her falling down omlll
I remember this. It was crazy.
I remember too. I was in 6th grade when it happened. We we released early from school. It was exciting.
@@antscorpio1030 me to
All-wheel-drive is a great idea, and it can get you going as fast on an ice sheet as on dry pavement. Problem is, even the best traction control in the world can't keep a car careening at forty miles per hour on track, or stop it in an emergency.
I gave birth to my second daughter the day the storm hit January 27 2014 nurses were stuck and had to sleep at work it was very humbling.
@2:41 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if you ever seen snow you know this feeling very well!
This is why the south lost the civil war 😭
That Mayor seems like he was a pretty good leader. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Jhee that was a hard fall!
I remember I was in Grad school at the time. My mom had called me the night before saying it was gonna snow. I just scoffed it off. But the next day I woke up something told me to stay home. Many of my classmates got stuck at GSU. Mother knows best
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In 1993, we had 3 feet and played in it. In 2014, we had 2 inches and acted like it was a blizzard.
Ice and snow are different.
@@faithinallthingsw4088 just hydrogen and oxygen really.
You say people acted like it as if they all choose to lose traction and get stuck on the roads all night. Also ice and snow are very different. It’s way harder to get traction on ice.
1:10 Legend has it. He's still stuck to this day.
Yes papa
Looking back at this, ice storms are still TERRIFYING. I'm terrified that this'll happen again... I don't want it again..
One of the crazy things about this storm was the temperature went from the upper 30s that morning to the upper 10s by nightfall... woke up to low to mid 10s the next day... the forecast didn't account for temperatures dropping that low.
I remember it too. It was so aggravating as it lasted days. And in North Atlanta, the ice lasted 3 or 4 days.
What a lot of peope dont realize is that it wasnt snow. It was rain, and the temperature plummeted so ridiculously fast that the roads glazed over, in a few hours. By rush hour , which is worse here than most cities on the planet, the roads were iced....before the snow. And...what blocked all the highways were the truckers; confident, and cruising through. They all jackknifed everywhere.I doubt they were all southern truckers. If I remember right , the temperature went from 70 to 20, fast. I think there were like several hundred THOUSAND cars abandoned on the highways. I saw it coming so I bailed from work, barely in time.
It doesnt matter how much skill you have, you cant drive on a sheet of ice. Its the most well known ice over, but its happened 3 or 4 times in my 45 years in Atlanta. 20 years ago we had an ice storm that brought down trees and limbs everywhere, crippling the power grid across the metro. It broke a 30 foot tall coniferous tree in my front yard in half. We live 5 miles from downtown, and we were without power for a week. Its been a while, but we get ice storms...very different than a snow storm. It looks beautiful and insane. A layer of ice one everything. In 2014, I think it was, folks in my neighborhood were stuck....because there was a 2" thick sheet of ice over the steep road leading out. I have videos of my kids sledding down the road...with no sled; just their body. Like an ice rink on a steep hill. The greatest point of the story is how the southern hospitality came out. Folks walked from their homes to the highways to help the stranded. Many opened their homes to strangers.
That makes more sense. I’m a midwesterner and I thought it was funny that a city was brought to a standstill from 2 inches of snow but ice makes more sense. I’ve been in Atlanta traffic before and it’s miserable I’d hate to go through it in ice and snow with souther drivers
I remember the whole world laughing at us lol.
I can just imagine all the New Yorkers crying laughing at this
bruh the ohioan be like: this is a normal halloween for us wdym AjagsjMjHgHH
Nothing funny about this when the south generally isnt a snow zone
That slip on the ice got me ugh poor thing
They really showed her eating it dang 😭
Took in 75 stranded motorists in our new shelter back then, opening on January 6th 2014 -5 degrees.
One of the worst nights of my life! It took me about 12 hours to get home on a normal 20 minute trip. If you ever watched the shows The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead streets of abandon vehicles, that was Atlanta. Luckily, I made it home about 3am in the morning because I knew if you didn't make home that night, it would be a lot worse in the morning and it was. I had some buddies that didn't get home until the next night. Moral of the story was to me, always keep sunflower seeds and a bottle of water in the car.
Totally. Especially in Atlanta I saw it coming, though I thought it was just snow. I bailed from work in Sandy Springs about 3, as soon as it stared snowing. I barely made it out of the driveway I was parked in. I ended up putting my van in reverse, and letting it roll forward. It worked. That was after trying to normally drive out; that wasnt going to work. I got lucky and made it home to Decatur on back roads. I got lucky.
That's because people don't know how to drive in snow or ice down south lol
The problem is where we are there are major Hills and curves everywhere. We don't have any flat land and we rarely ever get snow it's always ice. I know it looks like snow on TV but believe me is actually not and it's hard to drive on with curves and Hills.
No one can drive on ice, no matter where they live.
I Don't know what since that makes. How can you drive up ice?
Anthony Hill no we have hills that you can get caught on in North and central Georgia
@@psychodad4634yes u can yall just not use to it lol drive slow and keep your distance
OMG. I'm from the Deep South but have lived in snowy places (Omaha, upstate NY). Unbelievable that two inches of snow could paralyze an entire city and be treated as a natural disaster.
i’m from ny so it’s weird to think that people aren’t used to having a dusting every day in winter, or don’t have guardrails all along the roads it amazes me that people can have this much of a panic over something i’m so used to
you're surprised the world doesn't revolve around your experiences?
@@joebyron9 well, i mean like every human has only seen life from their own perspective, so yeah i guess
I remember that Strom that year (2013). Everyone all round me in my neighborhood lost power except me (no, I didn't have a generator at all). Trees were falling down all though out the neighborhood, it sounded like a war zone! Every few minutes you could hear Trees falling and cracking. That was a strange year, in 2013.
Dang, and then you had this Ice Storm we are talking about here in 2014. wow. 😂
I currently live in Hawaii but when I lived in Atlanta (Lawrenceville) I remember it was January and black ice formed on the roads. I had to go to work and at the time, I had a chevy tracker. It was the mall of Georgia where I worked and I remember, as I was driving my tracker it was slipping and sliding I was like nope, and went back home.
Smart man. I live here part time and spend the other half on Maui. I can’t handle cold weather any more. Speaking of which - bout time to get on a plane to OGG…😂
@@hawkszone3310 Aloha just saw your comment and yes nothing beats Hawaii haha
Daily routine in Michigan :)
2:40 they did Jessica dirty!
Why nobody is prepared?Southern not underestimate mother nature.
When was that
I think I was in 5th or 4th grade during this this was the best week ever kinda wish I got to spend the night at school with my friends lol but this storm taught me one thing always be prepared and get a awd car lol
Why are in such weather in the US not snow chains obligatory?
This is Atlanta. Deep southern USA. Snow/ice is as rare as a unicorn there.
Because at most we get snow twice a year and they cancel schools and work typically so this normally doesn't happen only every 3 years does a snowpocalypse happen 2011 2014 2017 where a bad snow wipes out the city
@Google User That or all season tires. They don't sell winter tires down here, but they do sell all season tires. The best way to avoid this mess is to make sure you have all season tires if you live down here in the South. You don't have to worry about changing out between summer and winter tires, and you will have better traction in the rain and snow. 4wd and AWD will get you going, but it's the tires that will give you the traction to stop. You are right about needing the proper tires, all season tires are the way to go if you live in the sun belt.
Most tires sold today are all season tires. The few cars driving around on summer tires are usually high performance cars. Most people already have all season tires, and this still happens. All season tires are not enough. $400-700 every 6 years for a set of proper winter tires is cheap insurance considering just one minor accident from sliding can easily cause that much damage. Plus you have a much better chance of not getting stuck, and that’s worth something too! You can special order tires in, that would be how you get your hands on a set of snows in the south.
Funny you actually might have met a friend for life after that mess
I remember when i was small that day my dad had to walk from home to the school bc how bad it was and i was small when that happend
Was this the storm that hit the Augusta area?
Yep!
I remember that storm
I cant believe its been 7 ywars
Lol come to Ohio from November to April sometimes May and it’s winter wonderland
Why is this shocking?? Atlanta is still in a northern region of the world... it’s not tropical lol.
You cannot leave it at ice on the street someone will respond to that situations
Are you kidding me? That's nothing! Those people would be really screwed here in KY during the winters..
Yes... But in the south THIS IS A SNOW STORM
Super Kitty
Kentucky IS in the South!
Scholarly Analyst barley it's the north south like Virginia or Missouri it's right on the edge
Lucas Fernandez
Agreed!
We’ve got an ice driving expert here, everybody! Behold, she can drive on solid sheets of ice without sliding!
If I had been in Atlanta schools, I would have been walking home. I don't care, I am autistic and some of my medication is important to the point where I cannot sleep without it, and it can cause a psychotic break if I don't take it.
85 south show brought me
Homegirl definitely biffed it hard there on the fall ooooff
In Minnesota, pick a day of the week... anyday... for months, December through April, this is our commute every morning and home... and no the plows with sand and salt aren't even out in full force all the time either sometimes they aren't even prepared for it but you're still expected to show up for work unless MN-DOT or the governor closes certain areas of travel... kids in this type of weather would not be expected to go to school or either have a 2 hrs late start or early dismissal, but everyone else is expected to go to work
This was a disaster because the powers that be didnt warn people in time. They knew 21 hours ahead of time and could have prevented most people from leaving their homes the night before or morning of. When they did call it it was not staggered for closures in intervening times. Everyone on the roads at once. Temps at 2-6 degrees. Ice formed fast. Expressways, roads and streets no longer thoroughfares at various points. Everyone stuck. I left work at 11:00 am and missed all of this by about 1.5 hours even though I live 22 miles from my job. Watched it unfold on the news.
I was in lawrenceville, walked my ex girlfriend home in the snow and everyone was freaking out over food and gas. Lol
2:39 LMFAO!
It might happen again ...
9 years ago the snowpocalypse happen(reminds me of a zombie apocalypse )
If only the government will make the wheel with studs in them legal again, this wouldn't had happen.
Super old comment, but you don’t necessarily need studs. Studless snow tires alone would have had a huge benefit.
damn why'd ya'll put in her fall
I remember that I was there
me too.. i lived right onI75 in Marrietta. I thought the news was just sensationalizing it until I walked out and looked at the highway. People from my area were on the highway passing out water. My boss and co workers slept inside a Target... it really was a mess. I don't it is possible to capture what it really was like,.
I. REMEMBER SEEN THE NATIONAL GUARD IN HUMMBES AND ME STEALING HOT DOGS AT QUICK TRIO COS I RUN OUT OF GREEN
What bullshit that wasn't a storm. In Minnesota that would be a dusting
Yes but in Georgia THIS IS THE MOST WE GET
Well in Minnesota they have more than 4 snowplows for the entire state now don't they
I remember
It was 2:40 for me 🤣🤣🤣
I remember this, my mom coincidentally picked THIS DAY to come to have lunch with me. That year my lunch time was 10:20 AM. It began snowing around 10:30-10:40. We left at the end of lunch (10:50) and there was already ice on the road at 11:00. My school made a poor decision in not releasing the other kids until around 1:00-1:30 PM that day, leaving kids stranded.
2:40 😂😂😂
noobs
Even people in Sacramento would laugh to this
We in Georgia, ironically, laugh at folks in California. What a dumb thing to do, to live anywhere in Cali.
@@po2313 why is it dumb?
Lmao really
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Global warming
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No u
Government goes last? RIGHT 😂😂
History made and is this a genuine concern for 2016 issues? 🩷🖤🧡🩷🩵