To our friends in Atlanta...

about 40 min ago we had snow in FL... but not now... they called a snow day for school... still not looking forward to driving home in the cold wet (potentially icy) roads grr

East side - Covering the grass, shrubbery and cars.

High-traffic roads are wet with no accumulation. Roads with fewer cars are getting spotty coverage.

Probably up to the 3/4" level; the 1"-3" forecast looks more and more accurate.

Totally lame. Notice the complete lack of snow on any paved surface.

David S. Wallens wrote: Atlanta got some kinda-real snow when I lived there--like '93 or so. The power went off a minute or two after I woke up. A minute or two after that my boss called: "Dude, no school today; it's a snow day." The bar up the street was open.

1993, I had just gotten out of the Air Force and moved back to Atlanta. Welcome home!!!

I live in Henry county South of the airport. It's around 3" on the deck right now and the road is about 1-1/2". It just changed over to big fat flakes.

Steve

Braselton - Roads are starting to accumulate. Apparently traffic in town is insane.

Snow has accumulated here in McDonough. We rode home from work in the WRX and just left the S2k there.

I really really like riding in a modded wrx down country roads in the snow

Dave: when is traffic in town not insane?

sobe_death wrote: Dave: when is traffic in town not insane?

Sunday mornings, just after sunrise.

Until a GSP car sees your CRX pushing the ton on I-20. Sorry, officer! I was just trying to get to the auto-x a little early.

You can shove your snow. I lost control of my truck avoiding a dog and hit a phone pole. Any one got a green right door, right front fender and a green hood for a 96 Ranger? I am realy pissed. I shoulda hit the berkeleying dog.

Apparently "Dusting up to 1/2"" really means "2 1/2 to 3 inches."

poopshovel wrote: Apparently "Dusting up to 1/2"" really means "2 1/2 to 3 inches."

That is a dusting, For me it isn't worth running the snow blower till 3"-4".

4" measured on my deck rail. Thats a lot for metro Atl.

I have seen this much snow fall in about 15 minutes before. It is still depressing that I moved so far south, and still have to see the white stuff in the winter.

snow = awesome! Theres a long slow curve into a an old strip mall lot near my neighborhood. There havent been any business in it for a few years, so the proprietor only has a strip plowed up against the building (local ordinance) to facilitate any emergency response crews that may have to enter the building. The rest of the lot is always covered in a nice soft blanket of fun. I went into it at about 25 mph, a slight tug on the e brake, and stay on the gas, and its a long slow, fun drift. Always fun! Be certain though if you do this that you know where any medians/parking blocks are...saw my buddy drift sideways over one of those grassy medians in a parking lot once in his moms accord...that was a fun conversation to hear about later!

GLOBAL WARMING!!!

Opus wrote: GLOBAL WARMING!!!

BRING IT ON!!! I encourage all to start all their cars and let them run to maximize their carbon footprint thus adding to the "global warming".

I have a supplier in Cinci. Got an e-mail from them saying that due to a snow emergency, they were closed for the day. I checked weather for them, yep, slow emergency. For THREE INCHES OF SNOW!!! Bob Costas.

Opus wrote: GLOBAL WARMING!!!

A MUCH better term is "Climate Change" and before this flounders, I just want you all to know I'm about to walk to the beach in shorts and a t-shirt. I'm happy to hear about your snow thought

Snowing again in Blue Ridge. Pretty to look at. Bad for business.

nothin but sunlight in Buford today

maroon92 wrote: (I saw someone broke down in the median last night without any kind of flashers on at all....I nearly ran right into his dumb ass.)

Why were you driving in the median?

Friday the 12th was the worst example of automotive idiocy I've seen since I moved to Atlanta Metro 20yrs ago.

I got off work in Midtown at 10p, but figured everything but the bridges would be OK, since the temp in town was above freezing, and the temp at our new place in Acworth (32.4mi away) had just gone below. After all, the cubes don't freeze the moment you put the tray in the freezer, right?

Problem was, people wouldn't slow for the bridges. Everything inside "the Perimeter" (I-285) was simply slushy, and we all trundled along at 50mph or so with no problem. But north of I-285, people began to get impatient, and shoved the throttle back down. Problem with it was that the temps were a little colder north of the city than we'd been led to expect. Even though the "grounded" parts of the road were still just wet (from the snow earlier in the day), the bridges were just sheets of ice.

I was worried that the morons would rear-end me when I slowed for the bridges, but it turned out that they never had the chance..because there were multiple car accidents already waiting at every bridge north of the Marietta South 120 loop (the South Loop actually overpasses I-75, and I should have known things were bad when I saw all the flashing lights on it when I passed underneath). We were all forced to slow to 15-20mph for the bridges because there were 3-4 lanes closed by the carnage & emergency vehicles sitting there.

Unfortunately, during each 15min required to clear each idiocy incident, the temps grew colder. So cold that the bridges weren't the only parts of the road freezing into sheets of ice. I made it as far as Barrett Parkway (about at the 20mi mark), and when confronted with yet another traffic backup, I exited the I-state for the surface streets. The colder temps had actually returned the slush & snow on them to something rough & crispy enough to get traction (fairly new Toyo Proxes 4) , so I just used my local knowledge to wind my way home. I didn't throw the car around like Sebastian Loeb, but I just tried my best to be smooth. After the first ten minutes on the "feeder roads", it actually became a little bit of fun! I was able to run about 35-40mph without a twitch big enough to put the car off the road. And since I extended my braking zones, I never even tripped the ABS. All this in the black Corrado, which is set up very stiff for autoX and track days. I wish my Golf had been healthy, it would have been a great drive in that car, since it's set up a little softer-and it's on narrower tires.

I still can't believe the things I saw on the Interstate, though..four, five, sometimes six cars off at every bridge. I saw at least four SUVs on their roof, and I'll bet five Euros there were more (I didn't look around very much because I was concentrating on the road). What will it take to teach the average "civillian" driver that an automobile (even a modern one) sometimes requires a little more attention than their berkeleying dishwasher?

I haven't looked to see whether or not any of those incidents resulted in a fatality, quite frankly because I just don't want to know. It's one thing to make "Darwin Award" jokes about things like this when you're watching from a distance. It's quite another to see an ambulance with the back doors open, and note that there's several people gathered around a gurney next to the crumpled car in the wall.