Atlanta Weather

[Hell Puppy]

First thing I tell any "yankee" who bitches about Atlanta weather is if you dont like it, stick around a couple of days because it'll be the opposite.

An unseasonable long warm fall though typically means we're gonna get blasted with at least one good snow storm in winter. Now keep your perspective here....a snow storm in Atlanta is 3 inches. And the weatherman can just say the word "snow" and people will flood the grocery stores and buy up all of the milk and bread.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

First thing I tell any "yankee" who bitches about Atlanta weather is if you dont like it, stick around a couple of days because it'll be the opposite.

An unseasonable long warm fall though typically means we're gonna get blasted with at least one good snow storm in winter. Now keep your perspective here....a snow storm in Atlanta is 3 inches. And the weatherman can just say the word "snow" and people will flood the grocery stores and buy up all of the milk and bread.

hahahaha

our first winter here we had a snow "storm"

it was 1" laying on the ground at 6am...they shut down EVERYTHING...even mcdonalds was closed

the snow was melted by noon, so here was the entire city of atlanta shut down with no snow on the ground

fun times...atlanta is very qwerky in the winter

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

hahahaha

our first winter here we had a snow "storm"

it was 1" laying on the ground at 6am...they shut down EVERYTHING...even mcdonalds was closed

the snow was melted by noon, so here was the entire city of atlanta shut down with no snow on the ground

fun times...atlanta is very qwerky in the winter

Problem with Atlanta is we get so little snow and ice here that most of the people have virtually no experience driving on it. This means even if you do know how to do it, there's always some idiot out there who doesn't that may slide into you while trying to get turned into Kroger to buy the last loaf of bread in town.

I personally love to drive on snow and ice. If it's out there, good chance you'll find me exploring my inner redneck by finding a large parking lot to "play" in. I love to drive slideways.

My usual strategy is get home, sit tight while everyone cleans out Kroger and Publix. Then when the "storm" hits and scares everyone in, that's when I go out...usually late at night.

One year when we had several inches, a really good snow, I waited til late night and drove to Helen with a girl friend. The town was absolutely beautiful as there were NO tracks anywhere, perfect white blanket. Only people out were me and the local cop who thought I was nuts.

Drove back long before daybreak and was making the only set of tracks on the highway til I got down to around Commerce. No 4WD, that's for wimps, this is all in a regular rwd passenger car.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Problem with Atlanta is we get so little snow and ice here that most of the people have virtually no experience driving on it. This means even if you do know how to do it, there's always some idiot out there who doesn't that may slide into you while trying to get turned into Kroger to buy the last loaf of bread in town.

I personally love to drive on snow and ice. If it's out there, good chance you'll find me exploring my inner redneck by finding a large parking lot to "play" in. I love to drive slideways.

My usual strategy is get home, sit tight while everyone cleans out Kroger and Publix. Then when the "storm" hits and scares everyone in, that's when I go out...usually late at night.

One year when we had several inches, a really good snow, I waited til late night and drove to Helen with a girl friend. The town was absolutely beautiful as there were NO tracks anywhere, perfect white blanket. Only people out were me and the local cop who thought I was nuts.

Drove back long before daybreak and was making the only set of tracks on the highway til I got down to around Commerce. No 4WD, that's for wimps, this is all in a regular rwd passenger car.

I'd better keep my trap shut

[Peaches]

Actually the main problem is that it rarely JUST snows in ATL. Because of the weather fluctuations, there's usually a nice layer of ice on the ground underneath the snow. When my ex-husband and I were together during the storm of 81 or 82, he was laughing at first because no one in ATL could drive. Then HE tried it and realized he wasn't driving on snow like in Baltimore. When he slipped on the ice and grabbed my car window and it crumbled into pieces...well, it proved my point

Then during the day it heats up, some of the snow melts, then that night it freezes up again and you get the black ice on the roads.

Add pine trees into this and they get covered in ice and start breaking like toothpicks.

My brother and I did the "let's do doughnuts in the parking lot" the year it snowed in Jacksonville FL. NO ONE was out and all the stores were closed. My mother lived on the river and there was a small hill to the bulkhead. We had cookie sheets we were using as sleds and someone at the bottom to make sure we didn't slide into the river My son was around 5 and wanted to go to Nana's every Christmas after that because "It snows at Nana's on Christmas"

I did learn one thing on my steep road - going up is easy in 4WD in snow. Coming down, not so good. Next time if I need to leave the house in the snow, I'm leaving the car at the top and walking down

During the blizzard of 93 I couldn't even get out of the garage for 4 days - there was a 3ft+ snow drift right outside the garage. That was still the neatest weather I've ever seen - lots of wind, snow and lightning all at the same time!

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Actually the main problem is that it rarely JUST snows in ATL. Because of the weather fluctuations, there's usually a nice layer of ice on the ground underneath the snow. When my ex-husband and I were together during the storm of 81 or 82, he was laughing at first because no one in ATL could drive. Then HE tried it and realized he wasn't driving on snow like in Baltimore. When he slipped on the ice and grabbed my car window and it crumbled into pieces...well, it proved my point

Then during the day it heats up, some of the snow melts, then that night it freezes up again and you get the black ice on the roads.

Add pine trees into this and they get covered in ice and start breaking like toothpicks.

My brother and I did the "let's do doughnuts in the parking lot" the year it snowed in Jacksonville FL. NO ONE was out and all the stores were closed. My mother lived on the river and there was a small hill to the bulkhead. We had cookie sheets we were using as sleds and someone at the bottom to make sure we didn't slide into the river My son was around 5 and wanted to go to Nana's every Christmas after that because "It snows at Nana's on Christmas"

I did learn one thing on my steep road - going up is easy in 4WD in snow. Coming down, not so good. Next time if I need to leave the house in the snow, I'm leaving the car at the top and walking down

During the blizzard of 93 I couldn't even get out of the garage for 4 days - there was a 3ft+ snow drift right outside the garage. That was still the neatest weather I've ever seen - lots of wind, snow and lightning all at the same time!

I can drive on ice easier than i can walk on it. And yes, ice is much much more challenging than snow. You have to really really respect the laws of physics.

And I hate black ice. I wont get out in that if I dont have to. The way you drive on it is assume that the road is icy whether you can see it or not, unfortunately everyone else on the road is going to drive normal until they hit it and slide into you.