It's kind of hilarious that 2 inches of snow brought a city to its knees

Bosses be like:. You still coming into work today?

Everyone talking about how that’s nothing up north, tell me why when there’s a “heat wave” in Chicago or something, like 40 people die. Which would be an average summer day for us.

I slept in rite aid on this night. It’s known as the snowpocalypse. Had unlimited food and me, two employees and a couple of customers stood in the back alley having a fire in the middle of the alley cause no cars could drive around. Smoked some bowls and listened to some good music, was a fun night

I recall this day all too well. My commute is 50 miles across 2 interstates, one way. I called in. I wasn’t leaving my kids to have to fend for themselves. Traffic is awful on dry days. I knew it was going to be a challenge getting home. Plus, where I live, I wasn’t going to chance sliding off of the road without guardrails and not be found until Spring. It was a very stressful and scary time. If it happens again, I’m at the little house on the prairie.

I had no idea that this even occurred and that kids and grown adults had to sleep in schools and grocery stores this is just truly insane to me

I remember this. It was horrible. I have a 50 minute commute and it took two hours to get home. Cars were swerving and crashing on ice all around; very traumatic. I prayed and was nervous the whole ride. When I finally got to my exit I stopped at the gas station and cried, just thankful to make it close to home. It was a nightmare watching crash after crash and praying no one ran into you and that you didn't run into anyone. I think my saving grace was I just bought a new set of Michelin tires. I try to buy their tires no matter how expensive they are. With God's grace and good tread I got home safely.

It was the eighteen wheelers that couldn't move on that ice that gridlocked everything. The cars were fine unless on an untreated hill.

I remember this like it was yesterday

Yep I had school in Atlanta but lived 45 mins south. I parked at a train station next to the highway. I left classes on the first snow flake, took the train back and hit the road before it started sticking. Anyways my commute was only delayed an hour before. I’m soo glad I didn’t get stuck in it.

The driver at 1:20 summed it up perfectly! No shit the road crews couldn't get through traffic! Did it ever dawn on them to salt BEFORE instead of after? It's not like they didn't know the storm was coming!

I was in 7th grade when this happened. My dad left work at 12 noon, he didn't get home until 3AM. We did get an additional two weeks off of school though.

2:41 wow that wasnt funny. that was a real hard wipeout. hope she didnt break a bone ya see no good deed goes unpunished

They did that lady bringing food and water so dirty when they got that vid of her falling down omlll

Jhee that was a hard fall!

I remember this. It was crazy.

ATLANTA IS STILL THE EMPIRE OF THE SOUTH!!!!!!

I gave birth to my second daughter the day the storm hit January 27 2014 nurses were stuck and had to sleep at work it was very humbling.

What a lot of peope dont realize is that it wasnt snow. It was rain, and the temperature plummeted so ridiculously fast that the roads glazed over, in a few hours. By rush hour , which is worse here than most cities on the planet, the roads were iced....before the snow. And...what blocked all the highways were the truckers; confident, and cruising through. They all jackknifed everywhere.I doubt they were all southern truckers. If I remember right , the temperature went from 70 to 20, fast. I think there were like several hundred THOUSAND cars abandoned on the highways. I saw it coming so I bailed from work, barely in time. It doesnt matter how much skill you have, you cant drive on a sheet of ice. Its the most well known ice over, but its happened 3 or 4 times in my 45 years in Atlanta. 20 years ago we had an ice storm that brought down trees and limbs everywhere, crippling the power grid across the metro. It broke a 30 foot tall coniferous tree in my front yard in half. We live 5 miles from downtown, and we were without power for a week. Its been a while, but we get ice storms...very different than a snow storm. It looks beautiful and insane. A layer of ice one everything. In 2014, I think it was, folks in my neighborhood were stuck....because there was a 2" thick sheet of ice over the steep road leading out. I have videos of my kids sledding down the road...with no sled; just their body. Like an ice rink on a steep hill. The greatest point of the story is how the southern hospitality came out. Folks walked from their homes to the highways to help the stranded. Many opened their homes to strangers.

In my opinion, this happened because in the south, there can be a forecast for snow and ice, but it never ends up snowing. So the politicians and administrators don't want to cancel work and school because too many times they called a snow day and it has only rained. Its just like the "boy who cried wolf." Except this time the wolf did come and everyone got caught.

The north has salt trucks and plows. Not even Canadians can drive on solid ice.

I remember I was in Grad school at the time. My mom had called me the night before saying it was gonna snow. I just scoffed it off. But the next day I woke up something told me to stay home. Many of my classmates got stuck at GSU. Mother knows best

@2:41 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if you ever seen snow you know this feeling very well!

That Mayor seems like he was a pretty good leader. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All-wheel-drive is a great idea, and it can get you going as fast on an ice sheet as on dry pavement. Problem is, even the best traction control in the world can't keep a car careening at forty miles per hour on track, or stop it in an emergency.

Y’all here from the tik tok huh?

Looking back at this, ice storms are still TERRIFYING. I'm terrified that this'll happen again... I don't want it again..

i’m from ny so it’s weird to think that people aren’t used to having a dusting every day in winter, or don’t have guardrails all along the roads it amazes me that people can have this much of a panic over something i’m so used to

Daily routine in Michigan :)

This is why the south lost the civil war 😭

One of the crazy things about this storm was the temperature went from the upper 30s that morning to the upper 10s by nightfall... woke up to low to mid 10s the next day... the forecast didn't account for temperatures dropping that low.

2:40 they did Jessica dirty!

I think I was in 5th or 4th grade during this this was the best week ever kinda wish I got to spend the night at school with my friends lol but this storm taught me one thing always be prepared and get a awd car lol

I remember that Strom that year (2013). Everyone all round me in my neighborhood lost power except me (no, I didn't have a generator at all). Trees were falling down all though out the neighborhood, it sounded like a war zone! Every few minutes you could hear Trees falling and cracking. That was a strange year, in 2013.

In 1993, we had 3 feet and played in it. In 2014, we had 2 inches and acted like it was a blizzard.

When was that

That's because people don't know how to drive in snow or ice down south lol

They really showed her eating it dang 😭

Took in 75 stranded motorists in our new shelter back then, opening on January 6th 2014 -5 degrees.

I currently live in Hawaii but when I lived in Atlanta (Lawrenceville) I remember it was January and black ice formed on the roads. I had to go to work and at the time, I had a chevy tracker. It was the mall of Georgia where I worked and I remember, as I was driving my tracker it was slipping and sliding I was like nope, and went back home.

One of the worst nights of my life! It took me about 12 hours to get home on a normal 20 minute trip. If you ever watched the shows The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead streets of abandon vehicles, that was Atlanta. Luckily, I made it home about 3am in the morning because I knew if you didn't make home that night, it would be a lot worse in the morning and it was. I had some buddies that didn't get home until the next night. Moral of the story was to me, always keep sunflower seeds and a bottle of water in the car.

That slip on the ice got me ugh poor thing

I remember the whole world laughing at us lol.

I came from tiktok

I remember when i was small that day my dad had to walk from home to the school bc how bad it was and i was small when that happend

Lol come to Ohio from November to April sometimes May and it’s winter wonderland

Government goes last? RIGHT 😂😂

OMG. I'm from the Deep South but have lived in snowy places (Omaha, upstate NY). Unbelievable that two inches of snow could paralyze an entire city and be treated as a natural disaster.

I remember that storm

Was this the storm that hit the Augusta area?

It might happen again ...

In Minnesota, pick a day of the week... anyday... for months, December through April, this is our commute every morning and home... and no the plows with sand and salt aren't even out in full force all the time either sometimes they aren't even prepared for it but you're still expected to show up for work unless MN-DOT or the governor closes certain areas of travel... kids in this type of weather would not be expected to go to school or either have a 2 hrs late start or early dismissal, but everyone else is expected to go to work

Shameful

Why are in such weather in the US not snow chains obligatory?

Homegirl definitely biffed it hard there on the fall ooooff

You cannot leave it at ice on the street someone will respond to that situations

85 south show brought me

Why nobody is prepared?Southern not underestimate mother nature.

2:39 LMFAO!

I remember

I. REMEMBER SEEN THE NATIONAL GUARD IN HUMMBES AND ME STEALING HOT DOGS AT QUICK TRIO COS I RUN OUT OF GREEN

Funny you actually might have met a friend for life after that mess

9 years ago the snowpocalypse happen(reminds me of a zombie apocalypse )

I remember that I was there

I was in lawrenceville, walked my ex girlfriend home in the snow and everyone was freaking out over food and gas. Lol

I remember this, my mom coincidentally picked THIS DAY to come to have lunch with me. That year my lunch time was 10:20 AM. It began snowing around 10:30-10:40. We left at the end of lunch (10:50) and there was already ice on the road at 11:00. My school made a poor decision in not releasing the other kids until around 1:00-1:30 PM that day, leaving kids stranded.

damn why'd ya'll put in her fall

Are you kidding me? That's nothing! Those people would be really screwed here in KY during the winters..

No stupid treat the roads b4 the traffic even gets on the road then again after morning rush hr and again b4 evening rush hr it's not rocket science

Why is this shocking?? Atlanta is still in a northern region of the world... it’s not tropical lol.

If I had been in Atlanta schools, I would have been walking home. I don't care, I am autistic and some of my medication is important to the point where I cannot sleep without it, and it can cause a psychotic break if I don't take it.

This was a disaster because the powers that be didnt warn people in time. They knew 21 hours ahead of time and could have prevented most people from leaving their homes the night before or morning of. When they did call it it was not staggered for closures in intervening times. Everyone on the roads at once. Temps at 2-6 degrees. Ice formed fast. Expressways, roads and streets no longer thoroughfares at various points. Everyone stuck. I left work at 11:00 am and missed all of this by about 1.5 hours even though I live 22 miles from my job. Watched it unfold on the news.

If only the government will make the wheel with studs in them legal again, this wouldn't had happen.

2:40 😂😂😂

It was 2:40 for me 🤣🤣🤣

What bullshit that wasn't a storm. In Minnesota that would be a dusting

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Lmao really

Even people in Sacramento would laugh to this

noobs

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Global warming

History made and is this a genuine concern for 2016 issues? 🩷🖤🧡🩷🩵