re: The Birmingham weather people dropped the ball big time

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I'm really suprised Birmingham and Atlanta are not better preprared for these type of ice and snow storms. Louisiana is closed down, the whole state

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Bham and points north have a reasonable level of equipment. The problem is that the forecast put the ice line around Montgomery and 6 hours later. All the equipment had prepositioned to the south with no hope of relocating in time. Also, it was icing inthepredicted places too.