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Here's hoping our CEO is stuck in traffic.
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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 1266318" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>Atlanta's problem was that we had 1.5 million people try to leave work at the same time and they cancelled schools that should have been closed in the first place. What little snow equipment we have was stationed a little bit to the South where the worst of the storm was supposed to hit. Most of the big jams were caused by truckers passing through Atlanta with no chains on their tires, most of them were from out of state. I spent the night stuck on I-285, the truckers ran out of hours and had to pull over to the side. They were parked on the left side too, I had to get out of my vehicle from time to time to see who was parked and who was trying to move. The terrain is "rolling hillsides", which means the trucks were having problems going up overpasses and slight grades. I had no problem driving on the two inches of packed ice, I was lucky to have planned ahead and drove my wive's Escape with FWD to work for my 27 mile commute. I had filled the gas tank the day before and I would crank it up every thirty minutes to warm the car up and save gas. I also wore thermal underwear to work, so I was dressed to handle the low night temps. I had to give up trying to take I-20 home, I had to use secondary roads to make a big detour around the worst jams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 1266318, member: 1674"] Atlanta's problem was that we had 1.5 million people try to leave work at the same time and they cancelled schools that should have been closed in the first place. What little snow equipment we have was stationed a little bit to the South where the worst of the storm was supposed to hit. Most of the big jams were caused by truckers passing through Atlanta with no chains on their tires, most of them were from out of state. I spent the night stuck on I-285, the truckers ran out of hours and had to pull over to the side. They were parked on the left side too, I had to get out of my vehicle from time to time to see who was parked and who was trying to move. The terrain is "rolling hillsides", which means the trucks were having problems going up overpasses and slight grades. I had no problem driving on the two inches of packed ice, I was lucky to have planned ahead and drove my wive's Escape with FWD to work for my 27 mile commute. I had filled the gas tank the day before and I would crank it up every thirty minutes to warm the car up and save gas. I also wore thermal underwear to work, so I was dressed to handle the low night temps. I had to give up trying to take I-20 home, I had to use secondary roads to make a big detour around the worst jams. [/QUOTE]
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