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Georgia on my mind

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by finyank13, Jan 29, 2014.

  1. finyank13

    finyank13 Reality Check

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    So this is what 1-2'' of snow does......poor bastards.....

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    Kids sleeping in schools? People trapped in Department stores? THE NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED!??!?!

    Get a grip Georgia, Get. A. Grip.

     
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  2. Fin D

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    There's no trucks to remove ice. There's no one with snow tires/chains. Most people there have never driven in icy conditions.

    Even without snow/ice Atlanta is giant cluster **** of traffic.

    This kind of stuff juts rarely happens. You people and your cold.
     
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  3. finyank13

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    hahah you dont need ice, snow tires or chains.....we literally got the same amount last night....

    the problem is the people, because well it is South....
     
  4. Fin D

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    Again, if the roads are icy and people never drove in that **** before, what do you expect.

    The cold is stupid, that's why I live down here and you live where its cold...........
     
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  5. finyank13

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    Oh I dont know, err on the side of caution maybe?

    But you live in a place where your pets are more intelligent than 90% of the population.....nobody has time for such things.......

    I bet they think God created the storm, because America is trying to break up the family unit....
     
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  6. Fin D

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    So its your contention that driving cautiously in ice means there's never any problems? Also, one accident can cause that kind of traffic in Atlanta whether there's ice or not.

    They do not think that about the storm.


    They know it for a fact.
     
  7. finyank13

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    That is part of it sure....this AM there were plenty of accidents on the roads, again same conditions as down there 1-2''. However the kicker is that isn't icy down there, it is slushy, big difference....the ground down there is warm still, icy is up here where the ground is frozen. It takes months of sub freezing/freezing temps for the ground to freeze out which makes driving truly challenging. That's why in those pictures above you can see bare pavement and more telling bare sidewalks without any treatment been done on to it....

    This is 100% the people, driving like fools because they dont get it much down there.

    However the biggest fault lies with the local leaders, in that they know a "storm" is coming, couple that will little plowing capabilities and they dont let school out early? Or send State workers home? So what happens is the weather event takes place around rush hour, thousands of vehicles descend on the roadways at the sametime and you get this. It isn't like they NEVER got snow before, they should have known. I wouldn't doubt if people get fired over it...
     
  8. MikeHoncho

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    Jeez. First the zombies, now this?
     
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  9. finyank13

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    gotta say though Miami is the balls, LITERALLY the only place where it isnt somewhat cold.....people must be losing their **** in Alabama, Miss, and Texas lol

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  10. unluckyluciano

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    not really. We've had cold days in Texas. Now if it snowed here(far west texas) it'd look like Georgia. Because as Fin d said, we don't have the infrastructure, know how, etc.
     
  11. Stitches

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    30 degrees is not cold (Texas).
     
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  12. byroan

    byroan Giggity Staff Member Administrator Luxury Box

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    Georgia doesn't spend tax money on snow removal like the north does. Wouldn't make sense for them to either.

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  13. Fin D

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    Ice on the road is ice on the road. The difference is the people's knowledge of how to drive on it. People here don't know because they never experience it. For example, if Sandy hit FL/GA instead of up there, the results would have been less catastrophic.
     
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  14. unluckyluciano

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    exactly. Its like when the north east gets a heat wave. People die and get sick, etc. They aren't used to it like we are down here.
     
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  15. Griese's Glasses

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    Looks like child's play compared to what I deal with all winter:

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  16. finyank13

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    I love it, I go running....
     
  17. Fin D

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    Come on down and help a friend move in the middle of August then we can talk extreme weather comparisons.
     
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  18. finyank13

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    You are an Ohio boy however....:lol:
     
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  19. Two Tacos

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    The north doesn't spend tax money on snow removal for 1" either...


    What kind of special knowledge do you need? Don't lock up your breaks/floor it if your tires are sliding/spinning? What happens if it rains? Everyone drowns looking up at the sky with their mouths open? You can claim that it's a justified and non-hilarious reaction, but I've seen snow in Tucson that caused far less drama.


    (oh, and you just compared a hurricane to an inch of snow... )
     
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  20. finyank13

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    How about don't move in August....put that **** off a few months....
     
  21. unluckyluciano

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    yeah well even your heat waves are weak compared to what we get.
     
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  22. finyank13

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    State of Emergency, federal funds being spent on it!!!! Mindblogging...

    (mmmmmmmmmm tacos, off to the Bell)
     
  23. finyank13

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    mid-90's and 90% humidity is weak?

    if you hydrate you can survive in the heat....you cant do ANYTHING in the cold to survive..
     
  24. unluckyluciano

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    heat sucks the life out of you dude. And I thought you just said you loved it? which is it?
     
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  25. finyank13

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    no I love the hot hot weather, I go running in it.....this cold ****? dude I don't want to even talk in it, I will stab you if you get too close to me....and A) I have lived here for 30+ years, and B) I work in it most of the time....

    I agree though it isnt the heat, it is the humdity....luckily our "heat wave" up here last 7 weeks hahahah
     
  26. unluckyluciano

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    I prefer the humid hot to the hot hot. At least then you sweat and that cools your body. Plus desert we don't have any shade like you guys got.
     
  27. finyank13

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    You have Mexicans through to fan you. Am I right?
     
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  28. unluckyluciano

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    naw down here we hire white people to do the ****ty jobs.
     
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  29. finyank13

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    Nice!!!!!!
     
  30. Fin D

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    Why would anyone here know any of that? Also, the day effing Tuscon's traffic/road system anywhere near the level that Atlanta does then it will be a valid comparison.

    Says the guy trying to make a one to one comparison between Tuscon and Atlanta. I was clearly not comparing 1 inch of snow to a hurricane. I was comparing preparedness for atypical weather in different regions of the country.

    That was very Tea Party of you, btw.
     
  31. Fin D

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    Yeah, but you're a kookoo bird.

    Besides, the traffic in those pictures can be cause by a tiny handful of people.
     
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  32. byroan

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    It's not the amount of snow that money is spent on. It's the salt that's put out and the trucks. Why would Georgia buy all that stuff for something that might happen once a year? It always happens up north. Hence money being spent.

    Even here in NC we're limited on equipment. The main roads get treated and that's it.
     
  33. Two Tacos

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    You're just saying that because you "love" me. 1 inch of snow is atypical weather in Tucson or Atlanta. Atlanta is bigger, but Tucson has a full million in the area and the roads to match. A Hurricane is a mother trucken Hurricane. How atypical was Katrina for the region? Some one here is making Tea Party like comparisons... I think I'll call you Sarah for this one. And I mean the Sarah that cannot work the action on her rifle as she takes 12 shots to kill a drugged antelope on the Discovery Channel to prove what a hunter she is, Sarah.
     
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  34. Fin D

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    So you're doubling down on being just like them by ignoring what I said. Your impersonation is stellar.

    Have you ever driven through Atlanta?
     
  35. NaboCane

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    Atlanta is a ghetto, dotted with some great restaurants and one truly epic dance club.
     
  36. Two Tacos

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    I've been driven through Atlanta. And driven in Tucson.


    Have you ever been in a hurricane? A light snow?

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  37. Fin D

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    Yes and yes. Why? I didn't compare those things. I compared people's abilities from a given region to deal with weather they aren't used to.
     
  38. Two Tacos

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    Oh and

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/winter-weather/

    So much for the "no equipment, this never happens" narrative. Back to pointing and laughing. :pointlol:
     
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  39. Two Tacos

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    A hurricane is much more than "weather they aren't used to". Other places with cars and roads get "weather they aren't used to" also. When they do, and respond like ATL, I mock them. It happens in Portland too... And I laugh everytime.
     
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  40. Fin D

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    Since you're having so much fun intentionally missing the point, how would you like me to proceed?
     

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