I appreciate how dangerous that is, as well for folks not accustomed to driving in those conditions.
There's ice, and then there is slick ice!
Put an inch of 35* rain on that ice and you'll find out what we've been dealing with for the last month.
Polar vortex works 2 ways!
Eek, that sounds pretty miserable!
I don't think wouldn't have been an issue if it happened overnight - barely anyone would have ventured out and the kids wouldn't have gone to school. I can't think of a time where we were hit by iced roads in the middle of the day like what happened Tuesday, but maybe some of the older farts that I remember otherwise. Add a million plus cars trying to get home on that fresh ice all at once and it was guaranteed to be an epic cluster.
A blanketing of ice in Georgia is probably about as frequent as 85+ degree days in Anchorage. I've been bass fishing with temps in the high 60s and even low 70s numerous times in Georgia and Alabama in January. The temps will be back in the 60s again this weekend.
