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@cmomma17: it's just insanity! i have lived in some extreme climates, but have never seen anything like this. it took me over 4 hours to travel a few miles (less than 5). my personal theory is that it is snow AND a zombie apocalypse. we just haven't heard about the zombies yet!

@MsLipGloss: good call on the zombies! Lol

@swedishfish: true. We call that a 'dusting' in VA and nothing would close! But we're used to the white stuff - although plenty of people here still can't drive in it!

@Smurfette: my DH isn't home yet. He's been driving for 5 hours.

A few years ago in the DC area there was a snowstorm that hit during afternoon rush hour (aka Snowmageddon) and some people had 16+ hour commutes. I called in sick that day and was so happy, since I have a 30 mile commute!

Hope everyone in Atlanta is ok, how stressful!

@MsLipGloss: the zombie apocalypse did start in atlanta...#walkingdead.

HA!

It's really bad! Thankfully I texted dh at 12:30 and suggested he go ahead and leave for the day. It took him 4 hours to go less than 10 miles and he ended up getting stuck and walking the last bit home. We have a lot of friends that are completely stranded. So scary!

@MsLipGloss: I hope he gets home soon!

Omg this is so awful! I have nightmares of realizing it's 8pm and I haven't picked up my kids yet and I can't get there quickly... Get lost, can't dial my cell phone for some reason... This is that nightmare come true

@PermaStudent: I'm in Houston and all the schools were closed and most offices today because of sleet...not even snow! But we don't have salt trucks/snow plows because snow is so rare here (I assume Atlanta is the same), so we just have to wait for the ice to melt to be able to drive.

@mrs. wagon: omggggggggg!!!

@Smurfette: Yep. *sigh* Very few people realize that driving too slowly is just as dangerous--if not more so--as driving too quickly. They aren't even driving fast enough to keep the ice from freezing on the well-traveled streets! And I have seen at least 6 people now cause HUGE traffic jams for failing to use enough speed to get up an incline/hill. Consider this a practical application for high school physics, yo!

@Smurfette: Oh, I totally understand! Even here, when we get our first big snow of the winter, it's like people forget how to drive. The lack of equipment would be a whole different ballgame!

@lawbee11: So crazy!

@Espion: that's if you didn't optimistically leave your office at 12:30 thinking it might--at the worst-- take you 2 hours to go less than 5 miles. 4 or more hours later . . . You're too far in to turn around but still not close enough to home. I wish I could just beam everyone home! I haven't seen traffic like this since 9-11 . . . Seriously.

@FarmWifeGina: Yeah, I get it. I learned to drive in Alaska ( and lived there for yeeeears). But this is the worst thing I have ever seen. It's a wee bit early to giggle at the South just yet. Thousands are stranded. And separated from their LOs/ families.

@FarmWifeGina: No worries. I'm game for all the giggles and memes in about 24-36 hours! Lay 'em on me!

ETA: in a vacuum, it seems absurd that this could be caused by an inch or two of snow. but seeing it--it's freaky like apocalyptic freaky. and it reminds me of how fragile everything really is. : /

My SIL's husband's brother, wife, and 3 day old infant have been in the Atlanta traffic trying to get home for going on ten hours. It's really scary.

I'm originally from Massachusetts, and this kind of weather would've been nothing. Living in North Carolina now though I've realized that when people don't know how to drive in it, and the town budgets don't include salt trucks or snow plows, it is absolutely more dangerous down here than with several inches up north. I've been getting annoyed at my northern friends mocking the situation, because it's just not fair to compare one idea of inclement weather to another. It would be like people in North Carolina laughing at northerners "overreacting" to a hurricane. If you aren't prepared, you aren't prepared.

@lauraeabel: This. (I'm in NC, too. About 10 min from you actually )

@autumnlove: thanks! realistically, he will either sleep in his car on the expressway or make it home suuuuuuper early tomorrow. if he doesn't run out of gas.

@lauraeabel: amen!