Snow day

[cosmo1]

Us Northerners are on our way to save you Atlanta!

 

[jumpman23]

...from Fairbanks to Key West...I can say I`ve done it all...ice is no joke..you disrespect it you will pay the consequences...what this proves is man is fallible and mother nature will always be unpredictable...

Love that avatar dogg. Right on dude lol.

 

[Squint]

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.

I find it funny that they speak of the trucks not "chaining up". Most of those truckers probably don't even have chains if all they do is deliver in the south. Is it a law for all truckers to carry chains no matter where they are?


Now, Colorado, that's entirely a different animal. They have signs posted on the roads explaining the fines for not having chains.

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Never heard of ups not operating because of winter weather.

It's in our supplement.

At Upstates' request....

Article 53 Section 4 of the Upstate/West Ny rider.

Section 4 -Emergency Conditions

In cases where severe snowstorms, acts of God, or other unforeseen catastrophes disrupt the operations of the Employer, the daily and weekly guarantees shall not apply provided the Employer notifies the employees in advance not to report for work. Where the Employer fails to notify the employees not to report, employees reporting for work shall receive their contractual guarantee. The company shall notify the Local Union as soon as practicable upon invoking the language in this section. Any dispute over what constitutes a snow emergency, an act of God, or other unforeseen catastrophes shall be submitted to the Joint State Committee.



-Bug-

 

[anonymous6]

people on east coast make me laugh when they have 6 inches and cant operate. we have storms all the time at a foot or more. if they keep donner pass open we go. if not we still go hwy 50 or 70.

no matter what we go in blizzard conditions. our drivers are the called "Best Of The West."

 

[south philly]

I love when it snows I stay out and work almost 12 hours and cant even deliver half the stuff on my truck because in the city the streets are to small to drive down even when its not snowing they preach safety but will let u drive in blizzard conditions and ice storms

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[south philly]

You guys out there take care of the roads try driving in the inner city in philadelphia they don't plow or salt anything only the highways get done once you get in the neighborhoods forget about it

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[Catatonic]

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Just took this behind my ups store, that's not shiny water.

This is invariably, it seems, what 2 inches of snow in Atlanta looks like.
I just stay at home or took a vacation day when I worked.