Give 'em a break

[mondhasen]

It's all well and good to think it funny that a couple of inches of snow can be so devastating to a city like Atlanta, but one might want to consider the physics and events involved. Compressing snow on freezing pavement gives you ice. Cars stuck on icy pavement block snow/ice treating vehicles. Everyone exiting work and school simultaneously onto

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[schnee]

1978 was a good year for blizzards, it seems.

[mondhasen]

So it was! We also had a big one in 1968: my dad drove up from New Jersey with a small trailer on his car in that one. Made it into the driveway bottom and had to quit.

[moxie_man]

My mother told me about the '68 one. The folks also talked about one in the mid-60's where school was cancelled for most of a week as it took that long to not only clear the roads, but to tunnel down into the school entrances.

Oh, and I blinked at your reference of "tens and tens of miles" until I remembered that my county is the size of your state. :)

[mondhasen]

Providence is maybe 15 miles from here. The state is apparently 48 miles long :D