Well, anyone who has driven through Atlanta knows it sucks...in good weather. Anyone who has driven through Atlanta knows how crazy the drivers are if there is ANY moisture and will know it sucks 10x worse. Now throw in some ice and you have ice zombies attacking the highways eating brains and not an AR15 in sight!
My wife sat in that crap for nine hours stressed out of her mind for a mere 12 miles. We both grew up in Cincinnati and anyone who lived there for any length of time knows how crappy that weather is and are well seasoned to drive in about anything.
If the news calls for flurries or extreme cold the counties will typically call off schools for the day(s) in advance and take a beating for being such "weather wimps." When the weather folks predict less than an inch and everything was going to be south of the city right up until the first flurries hit the ground and it turned out the complete opposite on both counts and the county follows their advice...you get called weather wimps. So I guess your better off being overly precautious than being caught with your pants at your ankles.
Denver is a pretty large city for the mountains but has 645,000 people and Atlanta probably had twice that amount of people hit the roads at one time in their vehicles on a 3 major highway bottleneck that became a hockey rink within 2 hours. You could call it a clusterfuk and be damn skippy saying so.
Greater Atlanta will never budget Chicago's ice trucks because this typically happens about every 3 or 4 years for 1 or 2 days at a time.
This is a classic example of why you should never put your trust in the government to bail you out and the weatherman even less! But even moreso, convince your boss that your not a pussy and let you head home early before it gets worse!
