re: The Birmingham weather people dropped the ball big time

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Bham got 19 inche from the 93 storm and shut down with no power in alot ofplaces for a week. Like you, most here are in hilly areas. Its the ice that is killing today, notsnow. Number one issue though, imo, is everyone relied on tv personalities instead of realizing the ground has been freeing at nights before this. And people are to busy to stop and be safe. Closing or getting off at 10 am would have prevented a ton of this mess.

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Yes, I understand that it's ice not snow and I'm not criticizing at all. I hope it didn't sound that way. I'm saying that storm was so bad for us that we changed our entire Emergency Response Plans and Preparation system over it. We had nothing really but the typical southern 'stay inside if there's even a chance of snow' management plan and when we couldn't wait it out and were so devastated by it - things got massively overhauled, equipment got bought, and protocol got changed. We knew that storm was coming but we simply had no way of dealing with the aftermath but it was such a bad aftermath that we have better prep. now. Maybe B'ham and Atl city management/state/local etc. will do the same after this one.


Do you have a NWS near you? We are fortunate that there's a National Weather Service in Morristown which is less than hour from Ktown/Gburg/Pforge and a bunch of other places. All the weather alerts our forecasters receive are coming from less than 60 miles away and even then our forecasters still miss on occasion because our weather is so weird in general.

This one we had roads prepped in Ktown, although we got lots of snow/ice the main roads are faring a lot better than B'ham and Atl.