Forecast: Maybe An Inch Of Snow &….PANIC!!!
Snow. We just don’t do that here. Governor Kemp has announced that State Offices will be closed tomorrow in 35 counties in order to avoid the mass panic & hysteria that occurs when everyone participates in the collective freak-out of exiting downtown at the same time.
After all, we have visitors from all over the world here for the Super Bowl. We don’t need them to see what this looks like. The legislative schedule remains that tomorrow is a legislative day, but word comes as I type this that the Senate is cancelling tomorrow’s session. The House has not yet cancelled tomorrow. (Update: Speaker Ralston says the House will convene at 1pm tomorrow.)
Regardless, we all know how this ends up. So y’all may as well just get in your white Es-CAH-laddes and make a stop at Costco before heading to the safety of our interstates. If you see my friend Buford Call0way, tell him I said hello. But duck, in case he preemptively fires first.
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Headed back to ATL after two weeks in Savannah. This is what ATL has as a welcome home gift for me?? Thats a nice “how do ya do”!
We could had lunch or something….
Unfortunately I was in Sav due to a family emergency. No time for fun or leisure.
Next time I’m home, I will reach out to set something up if I can. Would love to meet you in person!
While it is popular in the media to poke fun at our local popular reactions to the possibility of ice and snow, I prefer to regard the craziness to be part of our Southern charm. They don’t get this way in New York, which is kind of the point. I admit that when I heard about the potential weather, I did a quick mental check of our stocks of wine and liquor, bread, and toilet paper. And, I will admit to having several MRE’s squirreled away, just in case things get really dicey. For me, however, the big disappointment is the result of being retired. So, I can’t leave the house because of ice and snow? I already don’t leave the house every day anyway.
Let it snow!
It tickles me so to think that “wine and liquor, bread, and toilet paper” is in order of importance.
Take out the bread, add smore fixings, and you have the Wisconsin snowstorm needs.
Why my cousins need smores…
https://twitter.com/GovEvers/status/1089945797062545409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1089945797062545409&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wearegreenbay.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fstate-of-emergency-declared-for-all-of-wisconsin%2F1732819663
Don’t panic!
https://youtu.be/zDAmPIq29ro
Hard to realize Kevin Bacon was ever that young.
It must be official. This is just in. https://twitter.com/chamblee54/status/1089966466965872642
To defend the old farts in the metro Atlanta area a bit we did have an ice storm in the early seventies that took out power on an average of 5-6 days in the ‘burbs. My own family was without for 10. Unlike northern climes we warmed up after a day or two; enough so that everyone lost the contents of their refrigerators and freezers. We had just put a newly slaughtered steer in the freezer about a month before. I don’t run out to buy bread and milk but I do have a natural gas fired generator.
The reason large snow or ice storms knock out so much power here is that storms are so infrequent, plus Georgia is a very verdant state. Mid-atlantic and Ohio River Valley and north have snow and ice storms that take down limbs and trees over the course of a three month period every year. Here it can be four or more years worth in two days.