As far as blaming the weather folks, that's Bee-Ess. On my way down Monday morning, they called for a "slight chance of freezing rain". When I got there around 6:30pm, they called for 1-3 inches. On the local news, there was all this talking about forming storm "command centers"...... I remember thinking to myself " Jesus, aren't we over-reacting a bit?" .....guess I was wrong, but then I didn't know about the last storm that had killed the city, nor that they would not close the schools. Point is, it was known the night before that things could get bad for a town with limited resources for dealing with foul weather. They should have closed schools, and that decision alone would have lessened the chaos considerably.
I only had to sit on I-75 for three hours before I escaped past three jack-knifed trucks, then I had about three miles of a four lane sheet of ice all to myself before getting off in Kennesaw, where back in town, the traffic was half in the median, up on a sidewalk, or facing the wrong direction.
I could hear accidents happening behind me, even saw a couple happen. The police, with their Dodge Chargers, we're sliding, as were the Ambulances that I believe we're some type of Sprinters. The funniest thing I saw in Kennesaw, was a pickup truck filled with salt in the bed, and two guys throwing it out the back with small buckets. Classic.
