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Georgia on my mind

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

  1. Two Tacos

    Two Tacos Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    My disagreeing with the validity of your point doesn't mean I missed it.

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  2. muscle979

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    It's because they don't know what salt is so their roads get super icy. It doesn't snow every winter but it does snow often enough in north Georgia that they should know to salt the roads and maybe have a few plows on standby.
     
  3. unluckyluciano

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    sort of. I wouldn't expect say someone from phoenix to know how to react to even a tornado warning. Thus I'd expect the devestation to be more. Just like I'd expect those who haven't dealt with snow to not know how to deal with it as well thus more devestation.
     
  4. Two Tacos

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    Hurricanes and tornadoes "devastate" and kill regardless of preparation. They are devastating events. A few inches of snow is not is not a devastating event, unless you happen to be from Georgia. Then it's pretty much like a hurricane or a tornado, because you know, only 40 plows... And we aren't supposed to laugh at that sentiment.

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  5. unluckyluciano

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    but they can "devastate" less or more correct?
     
  6. Firesole

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    They had the equipment. The problem is that the idiots didn't use it. I know because I've been trying to get around ATL all day. I ended up getting around it, and of course ALL of the neighboring counties had pre salted their roads


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  7. Two Tacos

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    Even though paper cuts, it's not a knife, much less a sword. The fact that a few inches of snow is "devastating" is funny. Comparing perpetrations for dealing with a 10+ foot storm surge, to those for 2.54 cm of snow is also funny. Yeah, poor Georgia. When is the concert?

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  8. unluckyluciano

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    dawwwww you're so cute when you're evasive.
     
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  9. Two Tacos

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    Thanks!

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  10. bigbry

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    20-30 inches of snow tonight thru the morning, probably take me about three hours to clear the driveway tomorrow morning.

    1-2 inches??? Usually I pile that up and snort it.
     
  11. Ohio Fanatic

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    having lived in Atlanta, you're way off. First of all, most people that you meet in Atlanta didn't grow up there, many are transplants from up North who came down for high paying jobs in a low cost of living city. they have very little resemblance to the typical southern city.

    Second of all, the traffic in that photo is really bad, but so is everyday traffic in Atlanta. It used to take me 90 minutes to drive 10 miles every day. so, you sprinkle a little snow and terrible traffic becomes unbearable.
     
  12. Ohio Fanatic

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    it snows in Atlanta only every few years. more often if you include the occasional ice storm.
     
  13. AquaBlitz

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    If people around here in Toronto drive extremely slow during snow and icy roads even with our winter tires and salt trucks, I cannot fault the people of Georgia and other cities down south who have to shut down their cities for a couple of days until the ice melts and is dealt with accordingly. I was actually on Reddit today and saw a guy post a picture of his street, and it looked like it was covered with the most minuscule amount of snow when in actuality it was covered in a layer of black ice.

    If they tell us here in the Greater Toronto Area to stay off the roads because of black ice, you certainly should be staying off the roads down south.
     
  14. finsincebirth

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    My sister in law left work at 2pm yesterday and didnt get home until 7:30 am this morning


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  15. ConvenientTruth

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  16. finyank13

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    I was talking about the area in general not just the Atlanta......sorry I didn't know ATL was the pinnacle of intelligence in the South please except my apology Sir....

    and if you didn't notice we are just having fun with this thread no need to get all Concord on us....
     
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  17. Stitches

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    :lol:

    Wow, that's awful.

    I think I'd either have given up at some point and gone back to work, or just parked somewhere and went on foot.
     
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  18. McLovin

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  19. maynard

    maynard Who, whom?

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    Snow is nothing, anywhere really. Cities in the South suffer icy freez-overs because the temps bouce up and around freezing. This is far worse than a foot of snow up north.

    I have never been to Atlanta but I don't see why with a few dozen salt and sand couldn't have prevented this at least on the interstates. You put a truck in each lane and you salt and sand right before the weather gets going
     
  20. finyank13

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    Says the guy from Clearwater...smh...

    What do you think happens when it snows a foot, melts a little, then the nighttime hits......every night for months? then on top of the foot that is already on the ground, get this...?!!?!??! It snows another foot....
     
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  21. bigbry

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    Holy heavy Pineapple express snow Batman!

    Cleared the drive way twice yesterday and within two hours of the last cleaning another 6 inches of moisture rich snow accumulated.

    Woke this morning to 12"
     
  22. McLovin

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    I should have knocked instead of letting myself in.
     
  23. finyank13

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    Ahhh that's nothing!!!!
     
  24. bigbry

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    You young punks think you have all the answers.

    I work my snow. F***k you!!
     
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  25. bigbry

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    Yeah, so I gave my wife a break.
     
  26. McLovin

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    where do you think i got the key?
     
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  27. maynard

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    I grew up in the hills of northwestern Connecticut. Eat it

    Snow on the road by itself is not a big deal. You just drive a little slower and give a safe distance. It melts from the heat of the road and gets pushed to the side and you get slush. Yeah it may freeze at night, but it only affect odd hour drivers. Most of the ice is mitigated by salt and sand on the road. The southern cities cant salt and sand enough...or don't know how to coordinate it
     
  28. Pagan

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    I drove through Atlanta on tour in October. Yeah, there's traffic, but there's just as much traffic on the L.I.E. on Long Island, and it's an ISLAND, so there's frozen moisture on the road all winter and there aren't 900 accidents in two days like there was down there. There's one or two, and everyone drives by yelling "*******" at them out their windows. Actually, the worst traffic I've ever seen was in Austin, Tx.

    And when 1 or 2 inches of snow falls, finyank is right, they don't send out the trucks. Normal traffic vaporizes that amount of snow in a few hours. It's definitely the lack of experience driving in the snow, but c'mon....you "below the Masey-Dixie" folk take your shots at us Northerners quite often.

    It's your turn in the barrel, as the saying goes. :tongue2:
     
  29. McLovin

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    do you find that the discarded injector needles cause lots of flats? :shifty:
     
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  30. Fin D

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    Its like talking to a wall with hair.

    No one was arguing that Atlanta has THE MOST traffic ever. What we're saying is picture the Atlanta traffic knowing that most of those people have never driven on icy roads and then give them icy roads.
     
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  31. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    And it's like talking to Little Lord Fauntleroy who's so insistent on arguing and winning that he can't even tell when someone is agreeing with him. He just sees one thing he doesn't like, his butthole vapor locks, and he focuses on that only. Keep reading what I said, trailer boy. I agreed that it was inexperience. I was making a comparison in that first paragraph that NYers in similar traffic, due to their experience, don't have the pileups. Then I made a joke about screaming out the window at the ones who do have accidents, then I just mentioned a bit of info I picked up in my travels.

    Christ on a crutch, it's like dealing with a high school girl who insists on being right all the time.
     
  32. Fin D

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    I thought arguing was our thing? If you start agreeing with me (and poorly I may add) then the nature of our relationship has changed, in which case.....this isn't gonna work out. Its not you, its me. Buck up, there's other fish in the sea.
     
  33. Pagan

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    I've been on a "kinder, gentler" kick lately. On those rare occasions that you are correct I agree.

    And actually, it wasn't poorly. I set up that I HAVE been driving in Atlanta. I referenced a place with MORE traffic that does not have the same amount of accidents for comparison, then I agreed it was definitely the inexperience Atlanta's residents have in driving in those conditions.

    Have you not been arguing with others in my absence and you're rusty? Or did that vapor lock thing really happen?

    PS - I've already moved on. I can't possible continue with someone who mentions Snoop in his awesomeness tree.
     
  34. Fin D

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    You disgust me.
     
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  35. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    This I shall wear like a badge of honor.
     
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  36. bigbry

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    Okay so, back to McLovin and his 12"...HA my wife said it felt more like 5"

    So the joke on U
     
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  37. McLovin

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    that's all i put in, cause after the first two inches it felt brand new.
     
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  38. bigbry

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    I'm sure you've watched those nature shows where the Hyena's make that weird sound? Thats what you sound like when when you were doing my wife.

    Again, the joke on U
     
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  39. bigbry

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    No snow last nite to speak of.
     
  40. McLovin

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    That wasnt me. That was Lmeister. I'm more like the fox.

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