photo by David Cogswell
Well Mother nature finally managed to reach out and slap us, hitting the region with between 2 and 5 inches of snow Sunday after a Saturday that saw the mercury hovering near 70! What?!? And, overall, we did pretty good. Putdown your cellphone and pat yourself on the back. And thank your deity it happened on a Sunday. We were also fortunate that it didn’t drop below freezing until three a.m giving the wind plenty of time to blow dry the roads. Although there were thousands of little patches of ice everywhere. The DoT advised everyone not to head out this morning until the sun came up so we could see better where the black ice was biting. But I had to laugh when I saw that, in the pre-dawn darkness, even with the DoT’s warning, traffic was averaging 80 miles per hour on I-75 northbound coming up from Clayton County headed for the downtown connector! Atlanta may be the city “too busy to hate” but it’s also the city “too busy to slow down”!
