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JennM":hogp0jfi said:
Only one stop necessary. JT is working here.Kalk's store is about 20 minutes' drive or so south of here. Glenn is halfway across the planet over in Athens *g*.
Jenn
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Ok, so plans change. (Was: Is JT moving or not?)
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Keep in mind us old timers in Atlanta remember a day in the mid 1980s when we all had to walk home from work. {the entire city} .....Some of us thirty miles or more.!
When that ice storm hit , it was about 430 pm and every one was at work. With few city snow plows and too many ice covered bridges, the interstate was a standstill with wrecks and the side roads too steep for traction {few SUVs back then } I did own one!
Think about how you would handle having to abandon your car and walk home?Gonna carry a twenty pak of bottled water home if you have to carry it home as you walk in the snow? Atlanta has the second longest traffic commute time in the nation at almost thirty minutes. I think that translates into a several hour snow walk home for sixty percent of the population.
It will happen again and when it does the idea of freaking out with the site of a few snow flakes will take on a renewed meaning.
Just like seeing a low flying jumbo jet in NY city or hearing the earth shake in southern California.......How soon we forget .........
When that ice storm hit , it was about 430 pm and every one was at work. With few city snow plows and too many ice covered bridges, the interstate was a standstill with wrecks and the side roads too steep for traction {few SUVs back then } I did own one!
Think about how you would handle having to abandon your car and walk home?Gonna carry a twenty pak of bottled water home if you have to carry it home as you walk in the snow? Atlanta has the second longest traffic commute time in the nation at almost thirty minutes. I think that translates into a several hour snow walk home for sixty percent of the population.
It will happen again and when it does the idea of freaking out with the site of a few snow flakes will take on a renewed meaning.
Just like seeing a low flying jumbo jet in NY city or hearing the earth shake in southern California.......How soon we forget .........
That's why I live a half-mile from my shop I can crawl home if I need to, in less than 20 minutes.
Driving in that junk doesn't scare me at all - it's all the other drivers out there who don't know how to handle it that scares the bejeebers out of me!
FWIW - SUVs are pigs in bad weather. Gimme a sturdy little front wheel drive any day - I cut a path home from the city, some 30 miles, ahead of the snow plow, many times when I lived in Canada. Rear wheel drive doesn't do well, four-wheel drive is good but ONLY if you know how to manage it in bad conditions.
You'd have been better off staying in your car with your 20 pack of water, and a good emergency winter car kit with a blanket and a candle.
"When I was a kid we walked to school through 10 feet of snow, barefoot, and it was uphill, both ways..." :roll: :lol:
Jenn
I can crawl home if I need to, in less than 20 minutes.Driving in that junk doesn't scare me at all - it's all the other drivers out there who don't know how to handle it that scares the bejeebers out of me!
FWIW - SUVs are pigs in bad weather. Gimme a sturdy little front wheel drive any day - I cut a path home from the city, some 30 miles, ahead of the snow plow, many times when I lived in Canada. Rear wheel drive doesn't do well, four-wheel drive is good but ONLY if you know how to manage it in bad conditions.
You'd have been better off staying in your car with your 20 pack of water, and a good emergency winter car kit with a blanket and a candle.
"When I was a kid we walked to school through 10 feet of snow, barefoot, and it was uphill, both ways..." :roll: :lol:
Jenn
Ahhh, I still lived in Atlanta for that one, winter of '87-'88. Cars and freaking trucks everywhere. I had front wheel drive and had fun doing donuts in the empty parking lots. Life was so fun back then.
quote]"When I was a kid we walked to school through 10 feet of snow, barefoot, and it was uphill, both ways..." [/quote]
Hey Jenn, when I was a kid living in central IL, I had to do the same thing. Come to think of it, so did my dad when he was a kid. Only he really was barefoot!
quote]"When I was a kid we walked to school through 10 feet of snow, barefoot, and it was uphill, both ways..." [/quote]
Hey Jenn, when I was a kid living in central IL, I had to do the same thing. Come to think of it, so did my dad when he was a kid. Only he really was barefoot!
The big one Im talking about was 83 ....... Much bigger then 87 . The real problem was that the snow plows cant remove the snow with cars piled up all over the roads. As the hours passed people just abandoned their autos and walked worried about children at school and how other family members were doing.{no cell phones back then}. That translated into it taking days to clear the roads. Front wheel drive cars cant drive over the top of other cars .
Thank goodness for global warming.....the seventies and early eighties were quite unpleasent.
Thank goodness for global warming.....the seventies and early eighties were quite unpleasent.
Kalkbreath":3b8sb372 said:
Heh, you've obviously never driven with me! :lol:
People who know how to drive in that stuff, know enough to get off the road and at least park on the shoulder...
Of course people here stop in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, all the time! 8O
Jenn
Well no wonder I don't remember it, I was but a sweet babe of 23 8) I don't even remember being 23, man, I'm old!
Jenn, glad to know JT is there with you, makes him alot easier to find :lol: Since I moved away from the Atlanta area, they've changed all the roads, and where I think I'm going isn't where I want to go anyway. I end up going in circles (really big ones).
Jenn, glad to know JT is there with you, makes him alot easier to find :lol: Since I moved away from the Atlanta area, they've changed all the roads, and where I think I'm going isn't where I want to go anyway. I end up going in circles (really big ones).
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