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So, how'd the storm go for you?
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Finally got to sleep around 7am and woke up at 4pm. All of our local streets in north DeKalb are 90% clear of ice and almost dry except shady spots. As usual, the gov't is a day late telling people to stay off the roads.
Just fine for me, a 3 day vacation from work, some good bourbon. That said, I'm getting a little cabin fever and am ready to go back to work on Friday!
My sympathies for anyone that got ****ed by the storm. Hope all is well with y'all now
My sympathies for anyone that got ****ed by the storm. Hope all is well with y'all now
Everyone home and safe, drinking hot chocolate and having snowball fights. My son got to ride a real sleigh.....big smiles
Up early for work this morning, slipped outside to play with my 1pn34 NV scope. The image is so much more vivid when the moonlight reflects off the snow...pure russian goodness
Up early for work this morning, slipped outside to play with my 1pn34 NV scope. The image is so much more vivid when the moonlight reflects off the snow...pure russian goodness
7.5 hours from Huff Road & Marietta Blvd. to S. Cobb Drive & Atlanta Road yesterday evening. Good thing that a family friend decided to stay at her business location to avoid the mess, and let me sleep on the floor of their shop. Otherwise I'd have had to walk the remaining 5 miles to my house. Took me about 15 minutes to go the last 5 miles around 1:30 today. But home now...car is safe in front of the house...and I am warm and well-fed for the first time in 2 days.
Next time...I will just stay at the office.
Next time...I will just stay at the office.
Left work at 1:30 yesterday in Duluth. Home by 2:15pm 30min and 28 miles later. Woke this morning and took the family to Steak 'n Shake in Oakwood for breakfast. Fair amount of ice in the shady areas but drivable. No issues. I'm glad I live east of Atl! My cousin is still not home. She left her car on I20 at the Six Flags area and walked to hotel at 1-2am this morning. She left her work around noon yesterday.
I was supervising a crew, doing a lead based paint survey in a bldg at Peachtree & Spring, we saw a few snowflakes around noon, and decided to call it a day.
Loaded up the instruments & paperwork, drove out of the parking garage at 1:10
took Marietta Blvd (knew better than to get on the interstate) creeped along to the poo-poo plant at Bolton & the Hooch, sat for over an hour without moving, so about 3:30 I decided to take Moores Mill & Margaret Mitchell over to Northside.
figured if I got stranded and had to spend the night in the car, sitting in front a mansion on Margaret Mitchell was preferable to spending the night in the hood at Marietta & Bolton.
took about two hours to get to
Paces Ferry and sat for almost an hour, so I headed west on Paces Ferry about 6:45 or 7
took about an hour to creepy crawl to the river, then sat for a solid hour with zero movement,
cut thru Lovett School over to 41, zero traffic on this portion of 41, about 9 PM now.
the portion of the road from the chattahooche bridge to Paces Mill was a solid sheet of ice, 6 lanes wide, and impassable with cars every which way,
van load of mexican painters comes along, they all hop out and push cars out of the road, and spread out all the sand from their sandblaster.
then the hill from the river to Barnes & Noble @ Akers Mill was clogged with about 50 cars, frontwards, backwards, sideways
several locals out with kitty litter and one guy with a bar-b-cue propane tank and a torch melting the ice
I managed to maneuver up the hill on thw wrong side of the road, got boxed in where I couldnt move, then a car started sliding back down, leaving a gap where I could drive sideways over to the nice new 6 foot wide sidewalk,
jumped the curb and made the rest of the way on the sidewalk,
about 3/4 up, in front of the movie theater was a school bus sideways, I checked, no students left on it, driver declined a ride.
didnt have any other problems getting from there around behind the Mall & to downtown Smyrna
Arrived home at 10:15
good lord, what a drive !
quite sure I need an alignment since I jumped a median 3 or 4 times, and jumped up on the sidewalk 5 or 6 times
I do have to say that the new Revo's have lots of traction and the 4WD Expedition worked great.
now watching the news, it appears I was one of the last vehicles to get thru the area at West Paces and 41
there is still hundreds of cars there , with people in em.
Loaded up the instruments & paperwork, drove out of the parking garage at 1:10
took Marietta Blvd (knew better than to get on the interstate) creeped along to the poo-poo plant at Bolton & the Hooch, sat for over an hour without moving, so about 3:30 I decided to take Moores Mill & Margaret Mitchell over to Northside.
figured if I got stranded and had to spend the night in the car, sitting in front a mansion on Margaret Mitchell was preferable to spending the night in the hood at Marietta & Bolton.
took about two hours to get to
Paces Ferry and sat for almost an hour, so I headed west on Paces Ferry about 6:45 or 7
took about an hour to creepy crawl to the river, then sat for a solid hour with zero movement,
cut thru Lovett School over to 41, zero traffic on this portion of 41, about 9 PM now.
the portion of the road from the chattahooche bridge to Paces Mill was a solid sheet of ice, 6 lanes wide, and impassable with cars every which way,
van load of mexican painters comes along, they all hop out and push cars out of the road, and spread out all the sand from their sandblaster.
then the hill from the river to Barnes & Noble @ Akers Mill was clogged with about 50 cars, frontwards, backwards, sideways
several locals out with kitty litter and one guy with a bar-b-cue propane tank and a torch melting the ice
I managed to maneuver up the hill on thw wrong side of the road, got boxed in where I couldnt move, then a car started sliding back down, leaving a gap where I could drive sideways over to the nice new 6 foot wide sidewalk,
jumped the curb and made the rest of the way on the sidewalk,
about 3/4 up, in front of the movie theater was a school bus sideways, I checked, no students left on it, driver declined a ride.
didnt have any other problems getting from there around behind the Mall & to downtown Smyrna
Arrived home at 10:15
good lord, what a drive !
quite sure I need an alignment since I jumped a median 3 or 4 times, and jumped up on the sidewalk 5 or 6 times
I do have to say that the new Revo's have lots of traction and the 4WD Expedition worked great.
now watching the news, it appears I was one of the last vehicles to get thru the area at West Paces and 41
there is still hundreds of cars there , with people in em.
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The wife and I walked to Kroger (about 4 mile round trip) at 11am. The street outside our subdivision had huge sections of both white and black ice. Stuck vehicles at the tops and bottoms of all the hills. We pushed one stuck vehicle out of the ice; the lady driving narrowly avoided getting into a ditch and five of us were able to get her back to a dry patch of pavement. Saw some Darwin candidates out there in 2wd, all season tires, going way to fast for the conditions. On a good note, lots of helpful people pitching in when needed.
Stay warm, all.
Stay warm, all.
I'm still stuck at a hotel in Oxford, AL. Got about 5 inches of snow here - it's a mess. Gonna try to get to work tomorrow. Sure is hard to trade from here lol.
Now will come the accidents. People see the dry pavement and think "it's posted speed time" and hit the black ice. I predict more casualties tomorrow morning than during gridlock (like that is a difficult prediction).
