@Stocker,



Yes, most of our are underground so we rarely loose power. Hell, during the downtown tornado we still had power for the most part

Now mind you in rural areas outside the city it can be a problem, but in most of the suburbs they are still underground

 

Yeah i saw the news where ATL got like 2" of snow and it pretty much shut the city down.



We got what diggy got just a little later, total so far is 9" and its still going at 1"-2" an HOUR. Guess who still drove to work at 630am with 3" of snow on the major interstate :biggrin:

 

the problems with snow in the south is that temps hover around freezing. We got 5-6" here in Nashville. It melts in the day when temps are in the 30s, then freezes when it gets down to 15 at night. It's the ice on backroads that causes problems.



Don't get me wrong, people are stupid, and only get worse when snow is involved. Schools have been closed all week, which is dumb, but I haven't had a problem driving my Genesis in this mess.

 

lol you guys complain about a few inches of snow



we get a few inches of snow DAILY and it wont go away until may



thats right



i moved here in may and there was still 2 feet of snow outside



people make GOOD money here if they have any sort of plow or bobcat i know a guy with a earthmover that made 55k last year just moving snow around in the winter



55k doin driveways and sh*t like that



not too shabby

 

Sounds like a good amount, but what's it cost to fuel and maintain that beast? Snow here is usually gone by mid April.

 

no clue, but i doubt he would be quitting his "summer" job every year just to do this all winter long



hopefully VERY soon ill be gone from this madness

 

People majik wasn't clear enough: snow is not the problem. Anybody can drive on snow. ICE on the streets is the problem. Either it comes down as snow and melts/refreezes into black ice, or it comes down as rain in freezing temperatures and freezes straight on the ground. ICE is impossible to drive on well at all. Ice, not snow.

 

We get plenty of black ice here in the frozen parts of the country too. Every time the sun is out after these large amounts of snow, some of it melts out into the roads. We just happen to have the salt and sprays to help with it as well. You can't honestly tell me that snow isn't a huge problem for most of the south too though. A dusting creates instant retards in a climate thats not used to having it around for 3-6 months a year.

 

im driving back to vermont on sunday. hopefully the roads will be clear up there. in upstate vermont there is some kind of snow participation everyday.

 

I will paint a scenario for you guys to give you an idea of just how bad the conditions are NOT DUE TO WEATHER, but due to driver incompetence:



Hammond Dr, a road that passes by many of north Atlanta's biggest offices, has a section at the western most end of the road, on a major three-way intersection, which directly dumps into a fairly steeply graded valley followed by and equally steeply graded incline, the total length of which is about 1/4 of a mile. This is normally where a number of accidents occur in good conditions, now add to the mix a solid sheet of ice covering the east-bound lane for the duration of that 1/4 mile and things get fun. So the city has barricaded that section of road, smart for them. But west-bound lane is barricaded as there is rut enough that traffic should (key word) be able to proceed safely. Now, I sense that many of you can foresee what is about to occur, but before we all jump to conclusions let me add that both directions have 2 lanes that normally flow traffic. Yes, this is 4 lanes of potential fail! Well, since the westbound traffic proved successful some of the eastbounders decided to plow their vehicles through the barricade and onto the treacherous sheet of impending fail. SMART! Now finding themselves sliding downward they panic and set both feet onto the brake pedal... okay, now he's sideways, this means it's time to frantically turn the steering wheel back an fourth like a cracked-out chimpanzee. I SH¡T YOU NOT, I WITNESSED THIS!! So a Mercedes SUV with a damaged facia from deliberately slamming some orange barrels that apparently said "oh please, I dare you," is now spinning 360 degrees and eventually comes to rest after hopping the curb and shattering the front passenger wheel. But this idiot was not only fool of said caliber invented by our lord. Directly behind this bozo was a line, not just one or two, a line of cars destined to slide into a pileup at the base of the divot. Some made it halfway up the other side of the hill, only to slide back to inverted apex, most tried to stop as soon as they saw it was icy, all steps were repeated. Even the fools, trying to make a left turn onto Hammond who WATCHED the barricade get demolished tried and failed. In fact, the only car to actually clear the hill was about three car-lengths behind the Mercedes and had Jersey plates. He saw the ice and presumably wasn't aware of the barricade rammage, and quick goat-thinking caught enough speed, kept the revs up a bit which kept the wheel moving (IE: momentum) held the wheel solid and just peaked the apex of the incline to catch on the pavement. The few cars behind him, not so lucky... er, by lucky I mean they drove like idiots and slammed into the wreckage below. I was behind such a moron. He though that by straddling the wider rut between both lanes, driving down the center of westbound road, he was going to beat the system. That is until he had to get back into the left-most lane. He hit the center ice slab of the left lane, hopped the good 1 & 1/2" bump, slid, wrenched the wheel back and forth in the manor of the aforementioned simian species, and of course spun. After striking the various ruts and failing to grip the SUV slid fully into on-coming traffic and struck a falling vehicle. The heap then slid to the bottom of the pit and met the other cars, already piling up. And what do you know, I stuck to my path of well melted pavement and made the full trek without losing any grip.... HHHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm









Salting the roads won't help, they'll find the spots of iced goodness and still manage to pile up or just slide on the wetness. There is no help for these idiots.