Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Atlanta snow insanity and stupidity Date:   1/28/2014 9:34:12 PM

Having grown up in the north I take for granted that people know how to drive in the snow.  Sadly that is not the case in Atlanta.  :-)

So everyone leaves my office early except me because I have conference calls and I'll wait for the traffic to clear.....brilliant idea.....not!  I leave on my 9 mile drive home that usually takes 20 minutes max......an hour and forty five later I pull into the driveway......I'm one of the lucky ones.  

Going my usual way home I get stuck behind people that stop on a hill and then can't get going.  Finally push one car out of the way and get pulled by a guy with a 4wheel drive truck only to discover my usual route (a side street) is a parking lot. So I go the other direction and make decent progress until I run into another jam.  I go around cars stuck on a hill and run into a very kind soul who is literally directing traffic to get them to wait until a car is near the top of the hill until the next one goes.  He has to scream at numerous idiots that don't get what he is doing. While I waited my turn to take off I asked him how it's going. He said they have had to move 25 cars because people are so inept.  

Finally get home a little after 6 to find out one of my friends took 6 hours from Canton to north Atlanta and one of my daughters schoolmates took 7 hours to go 20 miles. I kind of feel guilty I even complained. One thing I will say, there are a lot of good people out there who helped those that were stuck, directed traffic, put people up for the night so they don't have to go home in the awful traffic and so on.  Definitely a silver lining in an otherwise crazy day.  And to think, where I grew up if we had 6 inches of snow over night we might have a 2 hour delay.  It will be quiet on the roads of Atlanta tomorrow morning for sure.  Hope everyone is safe!