As a native Georgian, I can assure you there is cold and treacherous weather in Georgia.

As a native Georgian, I can assure you there is cold and treacherous weather in Georgia.  Weatherdude wrote a diary on here days ago.    The National Weather Service predicted a severe doane winter storm reaching from Houston to the Carolinas.
CNN is doing nothing but doing wall to wall coverage on the mess in Atlanta.   People trapped in their cars. Accidents, one fatality as far as we know and prople still trapped., Children stranded at schools, kids on school buses all night....Sleeping in cars and a complete mess and shut down.  
These ice storms are not new.  I remember 66 and 73 and it was BAD.   It was never in this kind of dissaray. Tea party governors, non responsive mayors and non communication between the School Boards, the City, the private sector, and the DOT.  What a mess !!!!  On top of everything else, a poultry convention and no room at the inns so Publix, CVS and others housing people.
Nathan Deal ...blamed the weather forecast...Are you believing that?   Yes, people do not know how to drive in this mess down south but no one can drive on ice.  There are displaced people, children, etc.  
No one is stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility for this lack of leadership.  There ARE salt trucks. There have been school closings for as long as I can remember and someone was asleep at the wheel on this ice storm.  Mayors, Governor, Leaders, step up and admit YOU SCREWED UP ON THIS CALL !!!!
There will be investigations and get ready Georgia..... You have experienced a sort of Christy episode but due to negilence. doane   WOW ... Ice and snow is not new in Georgia but apathy in snow preparation  is really new.  If anything , people used to over react not get stranded in areas due to poor planning.  The temperature is 14 degrees and it was not warmer in the night.   Heck of a job Georgia !   How is that infrastructure and NO GOVERNMENT working out ?
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by CwV on Wed Jan 29, 2014 at 08:37:47 AM PST
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in the mid-Atlantic, I confess to a certain smugness about seeing southerners struggling with a couple inches of snow & ice on the roads.  I have a secret doane to share... nobody can drive on ice.  A little snow, yeah; but glare ice?  I doane don't care who you are or what you drive.
As far as an "Ice-gate", there really should be a few questions asked on some fronts; but it's my understanding that this storm certainly should not have been a surprise to anybody.  And that includes the citizenry as well as officials.  I mean, whoever sent kids to school on buses in this weather ought to be fired; but every citizen who ignored warnings doane to stay home and stay off the roads has contributed to the crisis too.
that no one can drive on ice .. Problem being.... The Katrina General doane just called Atlanta working doane in a 19th Century leadership.  Schools should have been closed and preparations for salting roads have always been far in advance of a storm.
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and no ice can form.  This is usually true with snow as well.  Sounds like an unusual condition where the ground was cold enough to let the snow "take".  Either way the salters doane should have been going right away.  And so it sounds like bad decisions on everyone's part.  Also, police and EMT are aware of the actual driving conditions before anyone else and should have been asking for public notifications limiting travel. Seems like a real breakdown every which way.
by Vetwife on Wed Jan 29, 2014 at 08:56:42 AM PST
The track of the storm did end up being somewhat farther north than expected.  Many schools in the southern part of Metro Atlanta were closed for the whole day. When t