The South Cannot Handle Snow


Scant Snowfall Brings Southern United States to the Brink of Chaos
Snowy, icy, windy conditions rarely seen in Dixieland blew semis off roads, stranded commuters and schoolkids, and sent Southerners from Tuscaloosa… Read…
As much as four inches of snow fell over parts of the South today, leaving a wake of destruction in its path — thousands of flights were canceled, Georgia is currently in a state of emergency, and students are stranded in schools across multiple states.

In Georgia and Alabama, officials said that hundreds of students are spending the night in classrooms or gyms. Home Depots across Georgia are accepting stranded drivers to stay over night.

But even they're faring better than some Atlanta residents who faced commutes as long as ten hours:

I have a friend who's truck has been hit by 6 cars. She has two kids in the car and trying to get to 2 more at daycare. She's by riverside dr by the Waffle House and publix. 911 is busy. Any suggestions???

is anyone near the QT station on Roswell Rd and Canton? My 74 year old father is trapped there in his car. He has been in his car for 12 hours now and is unable to go anywhere
Can someone tell me if there is shelter or assistance near 85 south from half mile from Clairmont exit. I have a friend with 2 very small children and they are almost out of gas.
My grandparents are stranded on 75/85 near Tech. My grandfather is on a battery operated heart pump. He has at least one extra set of batteries for the heart pump. I am very concerned now and road conditions do not seem to be improving.
Trying to get help to a Cobb County Special Ed bus driver and her 3 students... they have been on the road for hours with no food and have to go to the restroom. Theses are special needs kids and an older woman.

My husband is near exit 244 in downtown Atlanta. He is almost out of gas. Can anyone help. He has been on the road 10 hours .

My dad has a heart condition, feels faint, going on 11 hours and almost no food today. He thinks he may be have chest pain and he doesn't have his medication. How can I get him help???
MEDICAL EMERGENCY!! Senior Citizen located on FULTON INDUSTRIAL BOULEVARD near Camp Creek Parkway! Facing the Waffle House near QT. Desperately needs a hospital as he does not have his medication with him! He's driving a WHITE TERMINIX TRUCK and can not walk!!
Starting a new post, my dad is still stranded off Camp Creek Pkwy and Fulton Industrial Blvd, he is an emergency as he had a massive stroke 3 years ago and is on mega doses of meds to prevent another one, he is without his meds and has been stranded for about 9 hours, no food, drink, and almost out of gas, we've called 911 so many times I've lost count, he cannot get out on foot as he's tried and fell on the ice, its too slick, 911 keeps saying they are sending a cop car for him but nobody has showed in 2 hours, can anyone help?
my kids are still stuck on a school bus I can imagine they are cold n tired it's bus 48 that left out of a philp Randolph elementary n south fulton county pray for me n my kids

Not that residents of other states are having an easier time — there were more than 300 car accidents reported in Texas.

[image via AP]




and from the comments


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Snow in the South isn't the same as snow that you deal with. I've lived in both MA and CO and have never seen "snow" in either of those places like the "snow" we get back home in MS. Snow in the South quickly turns to large, thick sheets of ice and most towns don't include plows/sand trucks in their budgets. Today 1:29am


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Hope everyone is ok. I think maybe the government down there should buy some salt and a couple salt trucks just in case

is that an Onion article ?

4 inches ???

the first winter my family experienced in atlanta had snow. 2 inches accumulation and the place was in state of emergency because they didn't have salt trucks or anything. we had just moved from upstate new york where 2 inches of snow was called summer. it was hilarious. i enjoyed my first snow days there. never knew what that was before then.

Actually, weather.com says they got 2.1

But they have a state full of people who dont know how to drive in the snow and no salt or salt trucks.

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some of the stuff on social media from all of it was hilarious. Friend of ours from Georgia was on facebook all day complaining about it all. She was saying her husband was going to have to park his car outside their subdivision and walk home because there was no way he could make it. I have seen their neighborhood, it is completely flat.

FREAK OUT PEOPLE, FREAK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

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One of the winters I was at Ft Polk it snowed two inches, and every non-emergency building and facility on post was shut down for for the day. In the most US Army-ish move I have ever seen, the higher ups at Polk decided to order shovels and road salt from Ft Drum in NY to handle this burgeoning crisis, and they arrived like 5 days later on a 55 degree day and I don't think it even dropped below 40 degrees the rest of that winter.

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Fare you well, fare you well
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To rock my soul

These hillrods will never rise again if they can't handle a couple of inches of snow. The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down, indeed.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

The problem is that we never should have let Georgia back into the Union.

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That's Goff's audience

Those Ol' Boys wouldn't listen to Goff ...

I think you're underestimating how much people listen to people they hate

Based on reading the LoHo thread yesterday, you're clearly correct.

This is true. I was in NC for a bit and everything shuts down at the slightest hint of snow. I was told one day before a "snow storm" to prepare by buying a lot of food and drinks since nothing would be open the following day or longer. I did so and woke up the next day to a bunch of flurries that barely covered my sidewalk, let alone the streets. That being said, several stores did close down and my classes were cancelled. I ended up eating outside anyway because some areas were not hit, and most of the fruit I ended up buying to survive NC's version of a blizzard went bad.

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South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year


HUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.


Three of the estimated 45 million Southerners who have not yet gotten around to rising again.

"Make no mistake, the South shall rise again," said Knox Pritchard, president of the Huntsville-based Alliance Of Confederate States. "But we're just not quite ready to do it now. Hopefully, we'll be able to rise again real soon, maybe even in 2001."

Pritchard's fellow Southerners shared his confidence.

"Yes, sir. The South will rise again, and when it does, I'll be right up front waving the Stars and Bars," said Dock Mullins of Decatur, GA. "But first, I gotta get my truck fixed and get that rusty old stove out of my yard."

"Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, we gonna rise again," said Sumter, SC, radiator technician Hap Slidell, who describes himself as "Southern by the grace of God." "I don't know exactly when we're gonna do it, but one of these days, we're gonna show them Yankees how it's done."

"Save your Confederate dollars," Slidell added. "You can bet on that."

The Deep South states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee consistently rank at the bottom of the nation in a wide variety of statistical categories, including literacy, infant mortality, hospital beds, toilet-paper sales, and shoe usage. Even so, some experts believe the region could be poised for a renaissance.

"The way things stand, things in the Deep South almost have to get better. Otherwise, the people who live there will devolve into preverbal, overall-wearing sub-morons within a century," said Professor Dennis Lassiter of Princeton University. "Either Southerners will start improving themselves, or they'll be sold to middle-class Asians as pets."

"My constituents are decent, hard-working folk," said Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, in his 22nd annual "Next Year, By God!" speech on the steps of North Carolina's capitol building. "We are a proud people who mayn't have all that much fancy-pants book-learnin', but we live and die with pride in our proud heritage and the dignity of our forebears."

Helms' speech was met with nearly 25 minutes of enthusiastic hoots and rebel yells by the 15,000 drunk, unemployed tobacco pickers in attendance.

Though Southerners are overwhelmingly in favor of rising again, few were able to provide specific details of the rising-again process.

"I don't know, I reckon we'll build us a bunch of big, fancy buildins and pave us up a whole mess of roads," said Bobby Lee Fuller of Greenville, MS. "I ain't exactly sure where we're gonna get the money for that, but when Johnny Reb sets his mind to something, you best get out of his way."

"Oh, it'll happen, sure as the sun come up in the morning," said Buford Comstock, 26, a student at Over 'N' Back Diesel Driving School in Union City, TN. "The South is gonna rise up, just as soon as we get together and get all our shit back in one sock. Then, look out, Northerners!"

"Yesiree," Comstock added, "one day soon, the Mason-Dixon Line will be the boundary between a great nation and one whose time done passed."

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

the worst part is this will be used as proof global warming doesnt exist.

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No. Only idiots fret about other's opinions on that topic.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yahoo story had a lady with a 12 mile commute.... 16 HOURS later she got home.

She could have walked home in probably 3 hours.

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That's a 15 minute mile in icy conditions --- that's not walking speed. I'd say more like 5 hours. And she should abandon the car in the middle of the road to make it harder to clean up the mess later.

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The National Guard should never be called in for less than 4" of snow. Thats ridiculous.

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Well, whats done is done. It might as well be 4 feet of snow when you have no salt or salt trucks

Not really. It would be like driving on Chicago side streets. It wouldn't be very fast, but it also doesn't take 16 hours to go 12 miles in those types of conditions either.

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Go look at the pictures of what the roads were like. They were solid sheets of ice.

Warm ground melts snow. Cold air quickly comes in and freezes that melted snow. More snow falls on top.

I'm sure Atlanta laughs at Chicago for "heat waves" too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

No, thats not at all what its like down there.

Yeah, they don't have plows because they are made up north, and businesses shouldn't be allowed to cross the Mason Dixon Line.

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