Atlanta Weather

[Peaches]

Actually the main problem is that it rarely JUST snows in ATL. Because of the weather fluctuations, there's usually a nice layer of ice on the ground underneath the snow. When my ex-husband and I were together during the storm of 81 or 82, he was laughing at first because no one in ATL could drive. Then HE tried it and realized he wasn't driving on snow like in Baltimore. When he slipped on the ice and grabbed my car window and it crumbled into pieces...well, it proved my point

Then during the day it heats up, some of the snow melts, then that night it freezes up again and you get the black ice on the roads.

Add pine trees into this and they get covered in ice and start breaking like toothpicks.

My brother and I did the "let's do doughnuts in the parking lot" the year it snowed in Jacksonville FL. NO ONE was out and all the stores were closed. My mother lived on the river and there was a small hill to the bulkhead. We had cookie sheets we were using as sleds and someone at the bottom to make sure we didn't slide into the river My son was around 5 and wanted to go to Nana's every Christmas after that because "It snows at Nana's on Christmas"

I did learn one thing on my steep road - going up is easy in 4WD in snow. Coming down, not so good. Next time if I need to leave the house in the snow, I'm leaving the car at the top and walking down

During the blizzard of 93 I couldn't even get out of the garage for 4 days - there was a 3ft+ snow drift right outside the garage. That was still the neatest weather I've ever seen - lots of wind, snow and lightning all at the same time!