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Old 01-29-2014, 08:39 AM   #572
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by sterlingice View Post
If you think about that- look at how quickly things deteriorate: it's basically one hour from 12:14 to 1:15 where roads go from completely clear to utter chaos. While I see a lot of calls for heads to roll, how do you deal with something that hits that quickly and that ferociously when there was a chance it would be bad but also a significant chance that it wouldn't.

What that graphic doesn't show (for anyone unfamiliar with the geography of the Atlanta area) is that some of the most troubled places were outside of what's shown here. This map illustrates the complete chaos of the Atlanta interstate systems quite well ... it doesn't cover most of the counties where kids ended up trapped at school overnight because of piss poor planning/execution/decision making.
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