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re: The Birmingham weather people dropped the ball big time
Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:48 pm to semotruman
Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:48 pm to semotruman
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At least y'all made it home safely. This was my first snow experience in the south. Crazy.
I remember the one time it snowed when I lived in Atlanta. It only snowed like one inch and my office closed in a panic as soon as it started falling.
It makes you appreciate the infrastructure here in Missouri that is used to handling the snow and ice. We had about 7 inches of snow in one night a few weeks back and I still had to go to work the next day.
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Posted on 1/28/14 at 10:59 pm to TheCheshireHog
They're just not prepared for it here because it happens rarely. But back in Columbia, the only time I saw anything close to this level of fubar, we had 18" of snow in about 12 hours, thundersnow, major drifting and below 10 degree temps. And they still didn't call out the national guard.
Honestly, I'm not sure they'd get the trucks out in Columbia for the amount of snow they had here today. But people aren't familiar with it, and they panicked. Tens of thousands of people hit the roads at the same time. Hundreds, if not thousands, of wrecks. Police stopped responding unless there were injuries. Buses couldn't get to schools, and neither could parents. Which further fed the panic.
Honestly, I'm not sure they'd get the trucks out in Columbia for the amount of snow they had here today. But people aren't familiar with it, and they panicked. Tens of thousands of people hit the roads at the same time. Hundreds, if not thousands, of wrecks. Police stopped responding unless there were injuries. Buses couldn't get to schools, and neither could parents. Which further fed the panic.
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