You're seriously laughing about this disaster?
I think he's laughing at this joke of an "ice storm" being called a "frozen tundra". Some people at my work were laughing looking at the pictures today. I've driven in well over twice as bad as that and still made it to work on time.
Precisely. Frozen tundra is a joke. Plus I drove home from work yesterday with exactly double the amount of snow they got on the ground.
Yeah it's sad that all this happened, but this is like calling 68 a heat wave.
A category 1 hurricane would do a number on Nova Scotia. And when it does, I'll make sure just to mock the people who call it a major storm and brag about how Misssissippi handles bigger storms all the time.
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They didn't even have a couple of emergency snow plows or ice salt?
It just seems unwise to not even have any emergency plows/salt just in case something like this happens, even just enough for a couple of miles. Georgia might not get much snow, but doesn't it get a little bit every year or two? Seems very unwise to have nothing prepared; even though Utah hasn't had a tornado in 15 years, we've got a few preparations in case one hits again. I'm not mocking, I'm just genuinely perplexed as to why there weren't any measures in place, considering that something like this has probably happened more than once (unlike the Utah Tornado, for instance).
And am I reading that Politico article right, and metro Atlanta has a 16 county process to do anything? I understand that metro Atlanta is in several counties, but that seems a bit excessive. Plus, the article points out how unprepared Atlanta was for something like this.
From what I understand, the Atlanta area is very culturally/racially divided- there's a lot polarization between the city itself and it's suburbs- which makes it difficult for the metro to do things cohesively.
