You can write off the helpless morons of Atlanta when the zombie apocalypse arrives. Anyone who thinks the government drones will be coming to your rescue when the shit hits the fan, is badly mistaken. Not too many doomsday preppers in Atlanta. Most of the people in this country are as unprepared as these clueless Atlanta drivers. When the financial crash happens, the EBT cards stop working, ATMs don’t spit out cash, grocery store shelves are bare and credit cards get denied, the panic and pandemonium will be epic. The average ignorant American will be dead within a week. I suggest you buy more ammo and some more food.
Hat tip Twitchy
Admin, ditto. Thats it exactly – this things gonna lock up like your Honda Insight without oil. It’ll work till it don’t.
How many times have you heard both Bimbo and Mimbo fear-mongering newscasters say that certain stranded people were, gasp, gasp, gasp ……. “WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER”?
You take me away from food right this very second and I’ll survive just fine for three fuckin’ days before I even break a sweat. Most fatfuk obese ‘Murikans can go 10 ten days.
I can go without water a full day easily. But, WTF, there’s snow everywhere! Someone tell the brain-dead zombie newsfuks that snow converts to water pretty damn easily.
“Walking Dead or 2 inches of snow in Atlanta?”
Is that a trick question?
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What a bunch of dipshits, 2 inches of snow and a little cold weather. Why not just give the Feds another excuse to go FEMA and declare martial law? Goes to show how pussified this nation has become….
‘We’re running out of gas. We haven’t eaten in hours. My I-Phone battery died. The baby’s diaper is overflowing!” These are just a few of the chilling pleas for help littering the Twitterverse as Georgia residents prepare for another night of record cold.
“Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta’s snarled freeways to try to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Georgia State Patrol troopers headed to schools where children were hunkered down early Wednesday after spending the night there, and transportation crews continued to treat roads and bring gas to motorists, Deal said.”
“Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said took the blame for schools, businesses and government all letting out at the same time, and he said they should have staggered their closings.”
CNN info-babe Carol Costello argued with Mayor Reed, blaming him for not caring. The Mayor blamed Governor Deal, who promptly deflected all blame to the weather forecasters. The local weather forecasters promptly blamed the National Weather Service. All in all, it was quite an amusing scene.”
Being a metro Atlanta resident and watching the clusterf*ck transpire on Tuesday afternoon, my first thought was that there was no way most of these people will survive when SHTF. And while undoubtably many of them won’t, what was pleasantly surprising to me was how the citizens helped each other in the absence of any meaningful State action.
During the course of my (long) walk home in the snow, I witnessed people pushing each others cars, bringing each other food and gas, and generally acting like humans. The pathetic Georgia govt was no where to be seen, and no one I encountered seemed to care when/if they showed up. Granted, I live on the North side of the city which is generally more affluent, but even through the next day of being snowed in (by 2.5″ snow hahahaha) social media posts I read & even the local “if it bleeds it leads” local news reported nothing but stories of strangers helping each other. Reportedly, folks took in stranded commuters for the night & those with 4×4’s drove around delivering granola bars and water.
I often doubt that the sheeple are capable of much in the way of empathy, courage, and the like – which doesn’t leave me very hopeful about events that are surely on the horizon. Observing my community respond to the utter imcompetance of the govt. with indifference was a surprise that gave me (a little) hope for our nation.
The problem was not two inches of snow. It was an inch of ice. Atlanta Highways is 6 lanes of traffic, with merging on both left and right. Most of the roads were inclined, or bridges, completely with numerous 18 wheelers.
We had the exact weather in Alabama. The snow fell happened in 20 degree weather and everything was turned to ice. Monday it was in the 60s in my town. Tuesday it was 20 something degrees. The ground was not cold enough so it melted the snow and it turned to ice,
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Obviously we get plenty of snow in Minneapolis and have the gear for it, but the 3-4″ of snow we got today for some reason mucked things up pretty good this evening. It took me about 1/2 hour to go about 6 blocks downtown. Sometimes people just drive like pussies. And ice is tough. We have to worry whenever November stays too warm and we’re getting close to first snowfall without the ground freezing first.
When TSHTF for real, people may be “humane” for the 1st 36 hours or so; after that when they realize the gov isn’t coming to their rescue, things may get dicey, and that’s for keeps.
Thanks for making exactly the same comparison I did when I was watching the news. In case you never went to Hawtlanta, it looks like that every day at 5pm, anyway. Their highways SUUUUCK!
If terrorists ever wanted to shut down that place, all they would have to do is hit a place they call Spaghetti Junction. All the highways come together in this crazy mess in one place north of the city. It’s crazy to drive through. The city isn’t much better, since it seems like everything is 1 way and you end up driving through a redneck version of Detroit half the time. I hate driving in that city.
But I, too, was impressed by the generous nature of those folks. People really pulled it together to help folks-not like the time a few years ago when folks were trapped for 24 hours on a Chicago highway in a blizzard.
Are you talking about the blizzard that stranded motorists on Lake Shore Drive for 24 hours?
People WERE helping each other… a few people came out of the ritzy apartment buildings full of condos and co-ops costing $2M or more, to offer coffee and snacks, and some people left their cars to go around seeing if people needed help.
People often become amazingly polite, cooperative, and gentle in extreme conditions. Maybe that is because they realize at the gut level that their survival depends upon their ability to work together and make a few little sacrifices to help each other out.
When a disaster strikes, the news media revel in stories of social breakdown, violence, and lunacy that often transpire, but they ignore the vast majority of people who are getting through it quietly, and helping neighbors out. One guy who did not evacuate New Orleans but stayed on, said his remaining neighbors in his poor area were helpful, or at least no threat, when they were visible. Most people were just coping, with no drama.
I stand corrected-the story I heard on the radio was folks were stranded and left on the drive with no help for 24 hours.
I was one of the people on a bus for 9 hours in that blizzard in Feb 2011. Trust me, we all helped each other. We took in people from stranded cars when they ran out of gas or were covered over by snow, we helped paramedics treat a woman with chest pains and evacuate her, we all kept each others spirits up until we were finally evacuated to a local hospital to wait out the rest of the storm. We were further north than the Gold Coast, where people came out with coffee and food. Diversey Harbor kept us from being able to walk home (someone actually did fall into the harbor and died that night). But we stuck together, even making sure that we walked in groups the next morning so everyone could get home safely.
It gave me some hope for humanity again.
All the more reason to stay off limited access highways during bad weather and other disaster events.
I was on the train in that blizzard in 2011,and it caused me to remember all the reasons I choose to live in a major city, in high density neighborhoods close proximity to commuter rail lines, buses, and retail. While the CTA and METRA trains were moving slowly, what with frozen switches and other problems that bedevil motorized transportation in extreme weather, they were MOVING.
And there’s usually more than one way to get home in an urban area, and places to go for shelter if you can’t, unless you are stranded in your car for hours on end because it ran out of fuel in the total gridlock.
Most of the people stranded in their cars on the Drive live, as I do, on the north lakefront, or in the North Shore suburbs, close to rail lines that run frequently and reliably. Why on Earth they drag their cars downtown and pay $20 a day to park is beyond me, but to do it when you know a major weather event is in the offing, is beyond foolish. Of course, none of these people you see in their Jags and BMWs and Land Rovers is the least bit prepared. It would not occur to them to have blankets and extra clothes and snacks in the car, just in case. It also would not have occurred to them to vary their route, or maybe even take the train. They’re used to extremely comfortable, cosseted lives running a safe circuit between downtown Chicago, and places like Wilmette and Kenilworth and Winnetka and Braeside and Evanston. Many of them are not adequately dressed even or normal cold, because they totally rely on being able to dash from the office to the parking garage and their cars, and then into the garage at home.
Absolutely, Chicago. I leave my car parked on the street all week and take the bus or train everywhere. It’s easier and cheaper, and driving a car is just ridiculous. Even then, I keep multiple blankets, water, boots/gloves/jackets and emergency supplies in the car, just in case.
That night, I knew I should have headed for the El, but I got to the bus stop and a bus was just pulling up, so I hopped on. We had plenty of warning that the storm was coming but I was unable to leave the office until 4:00pm. I mistakenly thought that would give me time… no such luck when a bus ahead of you on the Drive jack-knifes and closes all the lanes. With snow falling faster than the plows can clear it, the Drive was toast in short order. The other huge mistake I made was wearing work clothes that day (functional and sturdy, but nothing like the snow/ski suit I wear when walking the dog in that kind of weather). If I’d only dressed properly, I could have easily walked the remaining 7 miles to my home. As it was, I got off the bus to attempt it and quickly realized I couldn’t see anything and could barely breathe in the gale-force winds. So I hopped on another bus and sat tight until we were evacuated.
In retrospect, it was a great experience, if humbling. There’s nothing like sitting in a vehicle full of large windows while lightning and thunder flash and boom in the swirling snow outside. The way everyone pulled together was inspiring. Chicagoans are generally a friendly lot, but they’re also tough as nails and come together when they’re faced with adversity. It was a good experience.