(01-29-2014 03:27 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: (01-29-2014 03:09 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote: (01-29-2014 03:06 PM)IBleedBlue Wrote: (01-29-2014 03:04 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote: UNC-GTech game is unable to be broadcast because of a little snow.
Atlanta is a war zone right now. Hawks game postponed too.
Yeah, I was being facetious. Some folks were stuck in traffic for 9+ hours and even overnight.
Mayor/Governor dropped the ball bigtime.
More important than that would be the school superintendents that took that chance.
Hard to figure out who to blame, if anyone, yet. National media jumping on the governor and mayor of Atlanta, but mayor has nothing to do with interstates, or with all the suburbs.
Al Roker took a shot at them this morning. Of course, he's sitting on a flat island 3 feet above sea level, in a city with the largest municipal snow removal fleet in the country.
Atlanta sits in the trailing foothills of the Appalachians, 1000 feet above sea level, with not a single flat street of any distance anywhere, in a metro area of 5 million+ people, who all mostly drive back and forth to work. And we get maybe one snow event every 5 or 10 years, with dozens of municipalities responsible for their little areas, and no state legislator outside Atlanta willing to have their constituents help pay for equipment only used once a decade, and mostly in Atlanta (middle and south Georgia are basically flat).
Then the forecast didn't help. It was all supposed to stay south of the city, but of course, didn't. And it came in a little earlier than anybody thought. So, most school superintendents (again, lots of different school systems, b/c unlike Memphis, Atlanta metro includes 13 counties) thought they were good for the day, and got caught about an hour before school let out.
Complicating the situation were hundreds of 18-wheelers trying to take shortcuts through the city interstates (it is illegal unless you are delivering a load there), and then jackknifing and stopping traffic. And the snow hit not long before afternoon rush hour.
Anyway, maybe a lot of folks could have been smarter, but it's not as simple a situation as outsiders want to assume.
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[Central Florida] Game will be televised on ESPN2
good lookin out....were getting there....BIGTIME ....that is......MAYBE it's because of ALL those SPORTSCENTER TOP 10 highlights
