This week's weather waiver!
Jan 28, 2014, 4:03 pm
#76
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Only took me 150 minutes to make it from my office downtown to my home by Emory this afternoon (normally 20 minute commute). One of the local stations showed the KE A380 being de-iced in ATL today. Pretty cool to see that in ATL.
Jan 28, 2014, 4:48 pm
#77
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Breaking news, a baby has been born on Atlanta's I-285 Perimeter while parents were stuck in traffic. It's a girl! 
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/baby-bo...roadway/nc5ff/
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/baby-bo...roadway/nc5ff/
Jan 28, 2014, 4:53 pm
#78
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Native Atlantan here. This is completely ridiculous. It's 3 inches of snow. The Governor should (finally) be held accountable. This stuff has to stop. There is no reason even Atlanta should shut down for this event. Local leadership just plain isn't trying, and voters have given them all a free pass for much too long.
Jan 28, 2014, 5:33 pm
#79
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Took twenty minutes to get to the deicing pad today, then it took them 15 minutes to deice a CRJ-700.
That said, I was lucky to be on the last flight to GSO that was not cancelled today.
One of those times that it paid to start early.
Jan 28, 2014, 5:36 pm
#80
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Just the opposite. DTW and MSP are prepared to handle winter weather. Unless you get a storm of the century 48 inches in 24 hours, they will usually handle it with relatively minimal problems. If one snow flake falls in Atlanta, everything shuts down.
Jan 28, 2014, 5:37 pm
#81
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How many aircraft can ATL deice simultaneously? Two? Three?
Took twenty minutes to get to the deicing pad today, then it took them 15 minutes to deice a CRJ-700.
That said, I was lucky to be on the last flight to GSO that was not cancelled today.
One of those times that it paid to start early.
Took twenty minutes to get to the deicing pad today, then it took them 15 minutes to deice a CRJ-700.
That said, I was lucky to be on the last flight to GSO that was not cancelled today.
One of those times that it paid to start early.
Jan 28, 2014, 5:49 pm
#82
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Native Atlantan here. This is completely ridiculous. It's 3 inches of snow. The Governor should (finally) be held accountable. This stuff has to stop. There is no reason even Atlanta should shut down for this event. Local leadership just plain isn't trying, and voters have given them all a free pass for much too long.
Newsflash: It's winter. Even in the South. Sometimes (rarely) it even snows significantly... You may think that the answer is spending billions on equipment that might get used once every few years, however when you come back from the spirit world, you'll agree that that would be moronic at best.
Suck it up and enjoy the snow day(s). It'll be in the 50s on Friday.
Jan 28, 2014, 5:51 pm
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Jan 28, 2014, 5:55 pm
#84
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This hasn't been my experience. Sadly, the definition of "significant winter weather" in Atlanta is, as I stated, virtually a single snow flake.
Jan 28, 2014, 6:08 pm
#85
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Jan 28, 2014, 6:14 pm
#86
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Yeah! Let's impeach the Gov for this weather! Surely he could have stopped it, but instead chose to make the people suffer. Let's march on the Capitol right now! (Well maybe after putting on gloves). How dare our Gov't allow winter in ATL! -end sarcasm
Newsflash: It's winter. Even in the South. Sometimes (rarely) it even snows significantly... You may think that the answer is spending billions on equipment that might get used once every few years, however when you come back from the spirit world, you'll agree that that would be moronic at best.
Suck it up and enjoy the snow day(s). It'll be in the 50s on Friday.
Newsflash: It's winter. Even in the South. Sometimes (rarely) it even snows significantly... You may think that the answer is spending billions on equipment that might get used once every few years, however when you come back from the spirit world, you'll agree that that would be moronic at best.
Suck it up and enjoy the snow day(s). It'll be in the 50s on Friday.
Atlanta's last big storm in 2011 hit on a Sunday IIRC. Sure, the airport stood still & roads were largely impassible, but for the most part people were warned about the severity of the storm & were at home anyway because it was the weekend.
As for spending tax dollars on prevention...every time I drive to my hometown Savannah I see all those hurricane gates meant to block access to I-16 that were put in place after the last mandatory hurricane evacuation (1999, the storm, as is typical, missed SAV). They have never been used and I wonder if they're even functional at this point. So I agree that an over-correction on equipment isn't needed, but a reconsideration of shutting things down in advance is worth consideration.
Last edited by PRWeezer; Jan 28, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Jan 28, 2014, 6:41 pm
#88
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Jan 28, 2014, 6:42 pm
#89
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Jan 28, 2014, 6:56 pm
#90
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Atlanta is a complete mess. My normal 15 minute commute ended up being over an hour (lucky to take all backroads) and many of my coworkers normal 25-30 minute commutes have been taking 2-6 hours. I feel bad for those living in Smyrna/Marietta/Kennesaw as 285 and 75 are a complete mess. Coming from the north, this is a complete embarrassment of a response to winter weather. Even though we have got some snow, this was known yesterday and the fact that the roads were so congested today and schools weren't canceled, people didn't work from home, etc is amazing. I have seen far worse road conditions up in Minnesota and never seen traffic like today. I would recommend anyone in the ATL metro area to stay in. So many bad drivers out there who don't know how to drive in this stuff and not worth spending hours in traffic to go 1-2-3 miles.
As for the airline operation today, almost all the cancelations were done in advance so the schedule was trimmed before the day began and aside from de-icing delays, things ran about as smoothly as one could expect. The airport operation today looked extremely organized and well run compared to the road situation in Atlanta. I wish everyone traveling to/from/through ATL a safe journey!
As for the airline operation today, almost all the cancelations were done in advance so the schedule was trimmed before the day began and aside from de-icing delays, things ran about as smoothly as one could expect. The airport operation today looked extremely organized and well run compared to the road situation in Atlanta. I wish everyone traveling to/from/through ATL a safe journey!