Catatonic
Nine Lives
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback and I don't know whether you live in the Atlanta area, but I watched the local news for 3 days leading up to this and the only thing they said was that 1 or 2 models out of the 13 models we have predict anything other than a dusting in Metro Atlanta.
A dusting was all I heard until Tuesday morning and none of the meteorologists were predicting the results that we wound up with. The 2 - 2 1/2 inches of snow fell and as soon as it fell it turned to slush and then ice on the roads. All the stuff shown on National TV and locally to some extent, was the result of tractor-trailers not having chained up. They even said that on National TV tonight.
Having a couple of days of lost productivity every 5 - 10 years is OK in my mind anyway.
A lot of people down here build tornado shelters in their houses ... I imagine they don't do that where you live because you probably don't get tornadoes often.
We also don't have hurricane shelters and evacuation plans in Atlanta.
Georgia is a real forced balanced budget state and that means that the State has to husband their resources.
Not a popular thing to talk about because there are a lot of Democrats in Atlanta who feel the government should just spend money without any thought given to "How do we pay for this?".
I watched the local news on Tuesday morning and there was no real sense of emergency and they were predicting 3 - 8 pm as the snow period.
All in all, it was a failure in many ways for many people but I don't buy negligence on local government official or even the meteorologists or the "news for profit" TV stations that the meteorologists work for.
