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re: Atlanta, GA: Potential Death Trap?................
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:47 pm to gatorhata9
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:47 pm to gatorhata9
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Not mobilizing GDOT the night before like he should have. He admitted that they didn't think Atlanta would get the brunt of the storm, when other projections said otherwise. The roads were not pre-treated to the extent they should have been.
GDOT doesn't answer to Kaseem Reed.
Reed is the mayor of Atlanta
Guess where the clusterfricks are?
Marietta, Woodstock, North Fulton, Douglasville.
Why aren't those mayors at fault for not having GDOT prep their roads in a manner that you find satisfactory?
This post was edited on 1/29/14 at 2:48 pm
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Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:49 pm to gatorhata9
You know what's probably going to happen now.............
The politicians of ATL will now give in to the cries of the helpless wimps like gatorhater and they'll build that gigantic snow-umbrella that covers the city.
And the first time there's ever snow in the forecast, they'll open it up and deploy the umbrella.....and it will malfunction and kill thousands of ATL bee-hivers. Which would be tragic. And then, we'll have to watch a bunch of propaganda during the Super Bowl half-time show about remembering these people....and they'll want donations and shite.
Bookmark this.
The politicians of ATL will now give in to the cries of the helpless wimps like gatorhater and they'll build that gigantic snow-umbrella that covers the city.
And the first time there's ever snow in the forecast, they'll open it up and deploy the umbrella.....and it will malfunction and kill thousands of ATL bee-hivers. Which would be tragic. And then, we'll have to watch a bunch of propaganda during the Super Bowl half-time show about remembering these people....and they'll want donations and shite.
Bookmark this.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:53 pm to deeprig9
Cobb County is the festering boil that creates these issues. Dumbasses who work in the city and insist on living in Cobb. frick them.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:53 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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You know what's probably going to happen now.............
The politicians of ATL will now give in to the cries of the helpless wimps like gatorhater and they'll build that gigantic snow-umbrella that covers the city.
And the first time there's ever snow in the forecast, they'll open it up and deploy the umbrella.....and it will malfunction and kill thousands of ATL bee-hivers. Which would be tragic. And then, we'll have to watch a bunch of propaganda during the Super Bowl half-time show about remembering these people....and they'll want donations and shite.
Bookmark this.
No.... the penny sales tax will get put back on the table and they'll start next week with the radio ads.... they'll point to this... the children on the buses... the 911 calls that couldn't be answered so people died... we need this penny sales tax.
Nevermind the fact there wasn't 1 thing in the first proposal that would have done anything whatsoever to prevent or alleviate in any way, this current clusterfrick.
The chowders will leap from Point A to Point 5, and connect dots with lines that don't logically intersect.
And we will have a temporary penny sales tax forever.
Bookmark this.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:56 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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The politicians of ATL will now give in to the cries of the helpless wimps like gatorhater and they'll build that gigantic snow-umbrella that covers the city.
This is how I know you're a fricking idiot who forms assumptions without facts. I didn't need anyone to hold my hand to get home. I went out in my Jeep and picked up my dad who was stranded last night. I went in to the office this morning so we could do payroll when no one else could. You think I need my hand held? frick no. But you wouldn't know that because you form baseless opinions about people from operating off of wide generalizations about people who don't support the same anarchist view as yourself.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 2:59 pm to deeprig9
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Nevermind the fact there wasn't 1 thing in the first proposal that would have done anything whatsoever to prevent or alleviate in any way, this current clusterfrick.
You're right. Nothing could have been done. Especially like not having everything shut down at the exact same time so everyone is on the road together. That doesn't have anything to do with it.
No, I don't think suggesting that people stay home from work, declaring a state of emergency the night before like others did, or even sending out salt trucks the night before could have helped. You're right.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:00 pm to gatorhata9
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You think I need my hand held?
Yes.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:03 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Based on?
Please, provide quotes or do something to get banned.
Please, provide quotes or do something to get banned.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:09 pm to gatorhata9
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Based on?
Please, provide quotes
Okay. I will provide a quote...........Go ahead and click 'reply'....and then click the 'quote' box. Then, type anything whatsoever there. ANd then submit it.
This will be my proof.
If the words you type in the box come from your brain, they will most likely prove my point.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:11 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Gotcha, you've got nothing. Thanks for proving my point.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:14 pm to gatorhata9
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No, I don't think suggesting that people stay home from work, declaring a state of emergency the night before like others did, or even sending out salt trucks the night before could have helped. You're right.
It was suggested that people stay home from work. Reed is responsible for city of ATL employees and for that, he is responsible for not having the sense to tell them to stay home, minus critical staff.
As Deal explained in his presser today, declaring a state of emergency only creates a legal framework for local jurisdictions to officially request state resources without going through the normal hoops. All state resources were already in full swing south of the city where catastrophic ice storms were forecast to hit. His declaration the night before might have convinced a few people to stay home, and for those few individuals that were waiting for Deal to make a declaration could have saved some time. I will give you that. There might be 100 less people stranded if Deal had made that declaration the night before. But it wouldn't have done anything to alleviate the clusterfrick.
The salt trucks actually were sent out the night before and pretreated all the metro interstates with a brine solution they bought from a Washington DC contractor after the 2011 debacle. Then all the resources went south to where the real clusterfrick was predicted to occur.
And believe it or not, the only school Deal can shut down is UGA. He allowed all non-essential state employees to leave at 10 am when the forecasts confirmed ATL was going to get hit.
Why aren't we lambasting the mayors of Marietta, Sandy Springs, Doraville, Alpharetta, Kennesaw, Acworth, Emerson, Woodstock, Rockmart, Villa Rica, among others, for not making announcements earlier or leaning on their local school systems to cancel school, or insisting on GDOT salting their roads in a manner you find satisfactory?
Why are you so mad at Kaseem?
Your education is almost complete.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:25 pm to deeprig9
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His declaration the night before might have convinced a few people to stay home, and for those few individuals that were waiting for Deal to make a declaration could have saved some time. I will give you that. There might be 100 less people stranded if Deal had made that declaration the night before. But it wouldn't have done anything to alleviate the clusterfrick.
I just have to disagree here. A stronger effort should have been made to keep people off the roads and I think it would have definitely helped. They should have consulted with the school superintendents about closing school altogether instead of a mass closing at 1 pm.
Plain and simple, it could have been handled better. There is blame to spread, from idiot drivers, to the governor, to mayors, to school superintendents, etc...
I just really feel like this could have been avoided, or at least not to the point of the disaster that we currently have.
This post was edited on 1/29/14 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 1/29/14 at 3:27 pm to gatorhata9
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I just really feel like this could have been avoided, or at least not to the point of the disaster that we currently have.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 4:13 pm to gatorhata9
gatahata9, you remind me of one of my best friends, he was just like you when he was your age. He was raised in the south, but wasn't born here, his parents weren't from the south. He had a weird authority complex for a while, like you do, sort of a way of thinking that authority is the beginning and end point of all problems and solutions.
He is all grown up now, married, makes money, been through alot of life changing moments, and in recent years, finally started understanding the world around him in the way most native southerners were raised to understand it.
Someday you'll come to understand the world around you too.
He is all grown up now, married, makes money, been through alot of life changing moments, and in recent years, finally started understanding the world around him in the way most native southerners were raised to understand it.
Someday you'll come to understand the world around you too.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 4:16 pm to deeprig9
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gatahata9, you remind me of one of my best friends, he was just like you when he was your age. He was raised in the south, but wasn't born here, his parents weren't from the south. He had a weird authority complex for a while, like you do, sort of a way of thinking that authority is the beginning and end point of all problems and solutions.
None of this is applicable to me. Quit making assumptions, you're falling in to Jeff category.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 4:23 pm to gatorhata9
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None of this is applicable to me
"Our leaders should have warned us, the situation would have been less clusterfricky if only our leaders would have warned us."
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"a way of thinking that authority is the beginning and end point for all problems and solutions"
Posted on 1/29/14 at 4:28 pm to deeprig9
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"Our leaders should have warned us, the situation would have been less clusterfricky if only our leaders would have warned us."
I see that you're trolling. I don't know why.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 6:48 pm to gatorhata9
It took me 26 hours to get home. I should have stayed home from work yesterday. Abandoned my truck on 75. What I'm taking away from the experience is all the incidents I saw of people helping total strangers. Restores a little faith in humanity.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 6:56 pm to Damn Good Dawg
Read that. I feel bad that I sat in my warm house a short walk for 92 which was shut down. I could have easily helped out but I didn't. Guess I'm a selfish bastard. What's new
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