I just got this email... Schedule B is we're open but come in at your own discretion. The roads are shit, I have a 22 mile commute and they think I'm coming to work tomorrow? Nice fucking try. I'm in the middle of redesigning all of our marketing materials so I have plenty that I can work on from the comfort of my bed.
So I slept like 3 hours last night because I had late night hockey and I had to wake up for school. I then had a full day of class and coaching. I decided it would be a good idea to take a nap at 9:00 so I could make it to midnight, now my body clock is fucked up. My body isn't sure if its 10am or 10pm, awesome. Its like jet lag but without the fun of being somewhere different.
Re: Re: WDT 1/24/14 NSFW Schedule b for us means mandatory 12 hour shifts, which I am currently working, I'll take the overtime all day.
Re: Re: WDT 1/24/14 NSFW I miss overtime. I work over 40 (salaried) hours every week... but that doesn't mean I get paid any extra.
I spent 4 hours driving 7 miles home last night, worst experience of my life. Although my buddy who had to drive 45 miles spent upwards of THIRTEEN HOURS in traffic. Atlanta looks like they're shooting The Walking Dead right now with cars abandoned left and right. Heaven help us if we ever get three inches of snow.
A guy in my high school, huge hillbilly wanna be Marine wahoo, decided to take bets to see if he would jump off our second floor balcony. He literally did a Slim Pickens "yeeehaw!" yell and hopped over the railing for 20 bucks. Broke both ankles, his wrist, and compressed multiple vertebrae. This was a month before graduating. He never made it to the Marines.
The next weatherman that says 'Polar Vortex' gets a swift kick in his lady balls from yours truly if I am fortunate enough to meet you. I'm looking at you Al Roker. Then again, I have a burning hatred for Al anyway, so utterance or no, I'll just kick away.
I prefer "Polar Vortex" to Snowpocalypse from a few years ago. And both of those are better than Thundersnow. Not to be confused with Frostquakes.
It was 70 degrees down here a few days ago and now there is snow on the ground. The only thing I really need to do today is a shit load of homework, so it worked out just fine that damn near the entire city shut down because of this. Snow in the South means everyone loses their damn minds. Whatever, at least I stocked up on booze.
Ohio State's OC was on a recruiting trip in Marietta and was tweeting his experience trying to get to the ATL airport. It took him 10 hours to get 50 miles, and that was the "good" part. He then proceeded to spend the next 9 hours doing stuff like going .6 miles in an hour. He ditched his rental car and walked half of the remaining 4 miles in slacks and dress shoes before being picked up by a Good Samaritan and driven the rest of the way. Unreal.
Seriously, how retarded is the entire city of Atlanta. Four inches of snow fell and the city seizes up like a nuke went off. I have a hard time believing that these people are so incompetent that they can't handle driving in a few inches of snow.
It depends whether the road surface freezes at all. Tires down there aren't cut out for snow, but shutting down a city if the toads are only wet is pretty laughable.
Yea, I don't really buy that either. My truck has tires that are basically bald (because I just don't have the cash right now for new ones) and I get around fine. I think its more a mental thing. If you have decent, not balding road tires, you should still be able to drive in the snow. Granted you'll have to go slower, but you should still be able to get around. To think an entire city freezes up and everything comes to a stop because a tiny bit of snow is baffling.
I think I read that it had to do with the way the city officials decided to shut everything down when the roads started to ice. And then there was a reported 900+ car accidents. People were giving birth roadside. I mean last Friday here, when we got some icing on the highways, there were reportedly 550ish car wrecks reported just in the morning alone. Thats up from the standard 120ish that normally occur. I can't imagine what it was like with double the accidents.
Where I am, they actually just made it worse because they hit all of the road surfaces with brine/salt ahead of the impending storm, but they don't have the infrastructure to keep salting. So the cold, fluffy snow fell on the salt, melted, then more snow fell on top of it, froze, and we now have an inch of fluffy snow on top of half an inch of black ice. If they had left the damn roads alone they could have plowed it all away, but all the plows are doing now is brushing off the ice layer. Oh well. At least the office is dead silent.
That will happen here on occasion, but thankfully we also have crews of snowplows running virtually 24/7 too so the shitty conditions usually don't last too long. I hit a couple patches of bad black ice on a side street approaching a highway on-ramp yesterday and this morning the same street was well salted and sanded, problem solved. I really don't get the situation in Atlanta but then again I've only lived here and learning how to drive in snow/ice was part of growing up. Cars of all types get around here*, even when it is frozen nearly half the year. *cars of all types end up in the ditches too.
Yeah, I grew up in New England so that's what I'm used to. It's fine to salt ahead of time if you can then salt again once the snow has been plowed. Here in NC, though, they don't have enough salt trucks to do that efficiently. Would have been better off leaving it all alone - the parking lot here at work is a giant, black skating rink. Why, exactly, was it necessary to dump ten thousand gallons of brine on a parking lot? A customer who I moved around my entire day for, just turned down a free lunch for, and spent an hour prepping their servers for, cancelled their requested meeting with no explanation 5 minutes before it was scheduled to start. Should have stayed in the warm house and drank Irish coffees.
Its fun to make fun of the South when these things happen, but it really is an infrastructure issue, most notably salt. After the debacle I drove through in Indiana a few weeks ago as it related to salt, I have a bit more sympathy for the South. Its just a matter of scale. Then you add in people that have never driven in snow before, or only do so every couple of years, and then you have some accidents to compound everything. Toddamus has a truck with bald tires, try having a Camry/Civic/Kia Soul with bald tires and see how you can navigate. I see enough people driving like idiots to snarl up traffic here in Chicago when it snows and that happens weekly, I can only imagine down there. My sister goes to George Mason outside DC, and she sent me a picture of the "snowplow" that was clearing off the roads in Fairfax. It was one of those industrial gokart/golf cart things with a plow attached. That's the kind of shit they are dealing with. I can't process how it gets so bad that a 5-10 mile trip takes 10 hours, but I can see how things get FUBAR real fast.