A Little Rant About Northerners in Atlanta and Snow

[girlonthewing6]

It's a snow day here in north Georgia. All schools from Carrollton to Athens to Atlanta to Stockbridge are closed. Doctors' offices and courthouses are closed. Malls are closed. When it snows in Georgia, everything shuts down. In Michigan, when schools shut down, kids flock together and head to restaurants and malls to spend the day. In Georgia,

Comments

[athena_artemis]

Amen.

It just doesn't make sense for southern states to invest in the same equipment as the North for something that happens once every four or five years? It's inconvenient, but it's simply safer and more practical to encourage everyone to stay home for a couple days.

[girlonthewing6]

Exactly.

I'm sick of seeing tweets from elitist Northerners who don't even have cars in Atlanta making fun of everyone getting into accidents. They're just jerks, and they are completely unaware of it.

[lovejsc07]

I get what you're saying. I drove in this crap Sunday night. It is different. People's reactions still make me giggle and I will say that it is easier for me to get around because I have experience, but snow down here is a different set of marbles than snow up north.

[girlonthewing6]

Driving down Ashford-Dunwoody is scary because it's so windy. I slid around on that road way too much as the beginning of last year when it snowed. I have never slid around like that up north. But in Atlanta, I was sliding around like crazy.

Peachtree is scary because the lanes are so narrow and people fly down it, even though it's covered with patches of ice.