Perplexed by southern US "crippled" by 2.5" of snow.

[ark_ader]

Well it been nice and warm (73F yesterday) in Southern Nevada for the past month.  There are some clouds coming your way and the ATC report a mix of ice in those clouds so you should have some fun next week.  You guys should give up the ghost and move on out here.

We wouldn't mind some of your water though....   

[knave]

um, yeah,...it has been 70's  weather for the past two weeks but no water. wells are going dry. I am praying for rain.

...but in the mean time it is really nice out.

[BadMouth]

The Daily Show reaction:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-january-30-2014-nancy-pelosi

 

[BadMouth]

OMG, they're sold out of white bread!  They'll be forced to eat other varieties!
This is THE WORST!

[kahlid74]

It doesn't make sense for a lot of places to keep massive fleets or plows/trucks for an event that happens once every three years.  In Wisconsin, we know there will be snow and Ice every winter so we can have a fleet at the ready.  We also don't get an abnormal amount of ice sleet events like what the south gets.  We either get Snow or more snow.  We get ice, we just rarely get above single digits for that sleet in a regular frequency.

[PixelPaul]

OMG, they're sold out of white bread!  They'll be forced to eat other varieties!
This is THE WORST!

Gasp! Maybe even a variety that is (slightly) more nutritious.

[BadMouth]

sigh....

Guess we're no better than Atlanta...


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/deep-freeze/storms-aftermath-monster-100-car-crash-clogs-pennsylvania-highway-n30141

I'm glad there aren't many cars around me on my commute.

[TKW4rr10r]

Good lord that's my old stomping grounds, too. Figures this was right after they lifted a speed restriction.
People drive like maniacs between the Bensalem and Willow Grove exits during normal weather, so its tragic, but not surprising.

[ChadTower]

100 cars!  And PA knows winter weather.  It's not the south.

[eds1275]

I love the snow. They don't get it often or ever. Everyone should go outside and play in it, whether they have kids or not.

[mcseforsale]

The issue here wasn't the snow or the ice, or the drivers for that matter.  You have a metro area with roughly 4 million people who normally spread their rush hour out between 3PM and 7:30PM. 

The Fulton County school district, along with Cobb (where my kids go) and just about every other county had school that morning and then announced early release anywhere from 1 hour to 5 min. before it was going to happen, causing a mass exodus onto roads which hadn't been properly worked on.  This caused the plows to not be able to salt/sand/plow because millions of commuters were all on the roads at once.

We could have had a million sanders and stuff and it wouldn't have helped.  Personally, I'm from Ct and don't have a problem driving in snow or ice.  I was in my car for over 12 hours because of this jamming.  Eventually I found the bottleneck which was an unprepared hill where I simply got into the oncoming lanes and drove right up.  I was home from that in less than 10 min.

So, laugh if you must, but it was a failure of the school systems and local governments not wanting to burn a school day (the rule here is if the kids eat at school,  it's considered a valid day).

AJ