re: The Birmingham weather people dropped the ball big time

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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.

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Knoxville also is a much smaller city with a more compact population. Atlanta and the suburbs have over a hundred miles just of interstate roadway that covers close to 10 counties. Factor in the major non interstates and I would bet there are between 250 and 500 miles of major highways that would need to be pre-treated/salted/cleared.

My mom lives in town and said that the trucks were actually staged not far from her to deal with some of the intown streets Monday afternoon, but the timing changed so quickly that the roads deteriorated before the crews were in place to man the trucks.