Thousands of drivers were hopelessly stuck for a second day Wednesday, many without food and water, on paralyzed interstates around Atlanta after a winter storm appeared to take the city by surprise.
State and local authorities had no estimate for how many people were stuck, but they said jackknifed 18-wheelers were causing a problem on freeways that were still slick with ice. Some people abandoned their cars altogether and walked to warmth and shelter.
Gov. Nathan Deal ordered the National Guard to clear the way for school buses that were carefully delivering schoolchildren back to their homes after thousands of them were marooned overnight. National Guard troops were distributing blankets and 200 cases of military-style MREs, or meals ready to eat, along Interstate 20.
Driving in weather like this should be taught in Drivers Ed or something so a state of emergency doesn't have to be declared every time the roads start to get a bit slick
I mean 2 inches is hardly even enough to send ploughs out. A damn mess.
I can't at only 2 inches and people thinking it's an emergency. I WALKED in 3 1/2 feet of snow for 40 minutes because my work wasn't closed down because that wasn't considered "enough snow" to warrant a closing
It is a state of emergency when the roads are gridlocked, people are stuck in their cars overnight with no food or shelter, and some are going into labor and paramedics can't reach them, but ok.
With that said, the city should've planned better.
My mom got off work at 1 p.m. yesterday, called me at 10 p.m. to tell me she was still on the Highway and could not come home til today.
Over 800+ kids at my school had to stay the night. Just my school alone. Buses were stranded.
Then the small amount of buses who could get kids were stranded on roads for hours. It was like this everywhere. My mom had to park her car outside our neighborhood and walk home, because our entrance has 50+ cars blocking it.
I don't get it?