Alabama/Atlanta Snowpocalypse: When meteorology goes terribly wrong

You're the ones who can't manage navigation in two inches of snow, so let's not go calling others out for lack of sense, chief.

 

Acutally, I watched that channel non-stop yesterday and they did a fantastic job covering the story.And all those folks were professionalson the wsb payroll.

 

My mistake, I thought the Politico piece said the City of Atlanta only had four snowplows, but that the number was higher when DOT and the other counties and cities were included.

Apologies for the confusion.

 

Thirty-six is the figure I have seen cited.
Dallas had three or four during the Super Bowl.

 

Actually, weather forecasts for the most part had the snow going south of the city, but it flipped northward.

I can appreciate your thought in concept, but I think the opposite would happen too many times where it would backfire--everything shut down, and nothing transpires precipitation-wise.

Of course, I fully support a three month shutdown of Atlanta from December-February, Provided it's paid time off of course.

 

We had a preventive school shutdown day here in Boston this month. Storm missed us, but nobody bitched about the miss. Better a blown day that a civic catastrophe. It's just playing the percentages.

 

No, it wasn't.

Brain surgery is done by people who practice such things every day and who perform well over a hundred procedures every year.

What happened in Atlanta happens about one time every 3-4 years.

 

Somehow, I've missed what the east coast earthquake has to do with this, at least from a weather / natural phenomena point of view. Couldn't predict it. Was large for the east coast. No one died. Lots of buildings got damaged, most notably in Mineral, VA near the epicenter, and in DC (National Cathedral, Washington Monument).

And naturally, the earthquake got wall to wall coverage in the media, kind of like a mall shooting would.

But I am losing the connection to the southern snow event beyond the media aspect of hysteria.

What gets me is they can predict, on the day of the snow event, to within the hour of when it should start falling, and yet, this massive clusterfuck occurred anyway. Chalk it up to inexperience, lack of equipment, lack of skills, etc. Personally, I either leave a lot earlier or stay in place until the snowing has stopped.

But ice sucks no matter how you cut it.

 

The connection is that, in both instances, millions of people experienced something they rarely experience, and the naivety and panic showed in both instances.

Northeasterners were ridiculing Southerners for losing their minds in snow, which they experience maybe once or twice a decade.

Northeasterners themselves went apeshit three years ago during the earthquake, which they experience maybe once or twice a decade.

In other words, we Northeasterners need to get over ourselves.

 

This story - fuckheads negotiating two inches of precip - has gotten exceedingly more coverage than the W. Va. oil spill.
Ten thousand gallons dispersed - nothing at all dire about that.