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Hey Atlanta, are you enjoying this "drought?"

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a couple of alternative radio stations in the vein of the departed 92.9 DaveFM have come online recently too and they too are SERIOUSLY repetitive. No joke, that fucking Bleachers song comes on EVERY TIME i am in my car. Never fails.
 
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Here's the latest. Forecasts have definitely been toned down. Most of Fulton spared, thankfully. Get fucked Cobb.

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I hope they shut down work tomorrow. They got on the horn today screaming about the sky falling. Though any snow doesn't look till 1pm. So maybe I'll just get off early.
 
That little band just south of Chattanooga is where I am. My phone just farted out the actual emergency broadcast system noise, don't think I've ever heard that. I think we're ok for food and stuff.. well, not really actually, but I don't want to head out into that frenzied crowd of panicked old fat people particularly. But I do want to have beer in case the power goes out. ah what the hell, better go ahead on.
 
Dry as a bone in Decatur. Great, got some driving to do between Atlanta and Henry.

Anyone see salt trucks or is Deal still refusing to accept that we need them?
 
TheAbsolution said:
Yeah. Those came online a few months ago.
They're pretty repetitive to be honest.
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Which is probably the saddest thing in the world. I mean, I love hearing "It Was a Good Day", "Check Yourself", "The Message", and "Hypnotize", but not every 20 minutes. They've got 20 years of hip-hop to choose from and it seems like they only have a stable of 50 or so songs. All that being said, I did laugh out loud yesterday when "Aw Naw" by Nappy Roots came on. That's some good ole Kentucky rap, and it made my damn day. Another station is "BOOM" 102.9. Go figure how 3 classic hip-hop stations appear in a span of 3 months, I've been wanting this for years.

Renta said:
People at work are already saying they are staying home tomorrow lol

Let's see what the turnout will be
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Same here, but I don't blame some of my coworkers. Last year 2 guys got stuck on the highway overnight and 6 people got stranded in the office. One of those 6 had just had dental work done that morning and didn't have any pain meds for his mouth, so he suffered all night. Luckily, he knew where I keep my emergency bottle of bourbon hidden and shared it with everyone.
 
It’s starting to look like Monday afternoon may have been the calm before the overnight and Tuesday morning storm for metro Atlanta residents and commuters.

Ice was forming on roadways early Monday night in counties to the north and northeast of Atlanta and on trees, threatening power lines.

Temperatures, which were still above freezing for most local communities Monday afternoon, were expected to increase for a time at night, but then dip overnight and into the early morning Tuesday. And that could make for the scariest of all driver nightmares: black ice on the roadways, bridges and overpasses.

While the precipitation is expected to wane and end overnight and in the morning, strong winds could cause ice formation on roads before they dry them out, said Severe Weather Team 2 meteorologists Glenn Burns and Brad Nitz.

Temperatures in the morning will drop to the mid-20s before warming to the ice-melting 40s by the afternoon.

The National Weather Service released a special statement Monday warning of a risk of black ice on roadways Tuesday morning along and north of a line from Lagrange to Athens.

“Areas of rain will push across the region through tonight, resulting in widespread wet surfaces,” the Weather Service said. “Temperatures could dip to freezing just before sunrise for many areas. This will result in patches of black ice, especially on bridges and overpasses, between 5 and 10 a.m. Tuesday.”

The less traveled roads and side streets are likely to suffer the most problems.

The Georgia Department of Transportation said that overnight 18 GDOT interstate response teams, 15 multi-agency strike teams and 10 brine trucks will begin further treatment of interstate highways in metro Atlanta and north Georgia in anticipation of widespread black ice following rain and falling temperatures.

Gov. Nathan Deal pushed back the opening of state agencies in metro Atlanta to 10 a.m. Tuesday. Agencies in counties in the northern part of the state were asked to observe an 11 a.m. opening.

Many government offices said they would open late, including Fulton County, the City of Atlanta, and the Department of Labor metro area career centers. All will open at 10 a.m

A list of delays and school closings can be found here.

On Monday, reports of accumulating sleet began coming in from the northern suburbs northward during the early afternoon as the weather system that forecasters once thought could bring widespread frozen precipitation to much of north Georgia moved across the state.

But for most of the metro area, the weather system on Monday just brought cold rain.

A winter weather advisory that was set to go into effect at 7 a.m. for metro Atlanta north of I-20 was dropped for all but the far northern counties, and a winter storm warning that had been posted to begin at 7 for 15 counties across extreme north Georgia was scaled back to include only eight counties in the northeast corner of the state.

While power companies were keeping close tabs on the approaching weather system and the threat of ice that could bring down trees and lines, Georgia Power, the state’s largest electricity provider, reported no major outages on its statewide reporting system map. As of 7:30 p.m., Georgia’s electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) were reporting approximately 14,000 customers in north Georgia without power.

The winter weather won’t be over any time soon.

Wednesday will begin with lows in the upper 20s, and highs will reach the low 40s, Channel 2 Action News said.

Another blast of Arctic air will send the mercury plummeting into the low-teens early Thursday, and the temperature is not expected to rise above the freezing mark.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/most-of-metro-atlanta-dropped-from-winter-weather-/nkCBw/
 
Well, at least my work isn't opening until 10:00AM, but I hope the roads will be alright up here. The lights have been flickering off and on since about 7:30.
 
Wish I did have a generator. I also wish my box fan ran off of Wi-Fi. I have a feeling at some point in the middle of the night my daughter will either start screaming or scare the crap out of me if she wanders into my room while the power is out.
 
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Hm, sounds rather shitty. I have a commute about 25 miles from downtown up to Norcross.

Might have to just burn a vacation day tomorrow.
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Southern hall county, been without power since around 7. Wife and I went waking around 8:30, could here the trees falling and the see the flashes in the sky from transformers blowing.

They sure missed the forecast on this one.

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WolfofMebu said:
Southern hall county, been without power since around 7. Wife and I went waking around 8:30, could here the trees falling and the see the flashes in the sky from transformers blowing.

They sure missed the forecast on this one.
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Holy shit. Never knew GAFfers were so close.

Classes just got cancelled until noon tomorrow, ie I have no class. Time to dig into my beer reserve.
 
ciaossu said:
I thought there were a good amount of warnings about Tuesday. Maybe the forecast for your area was off? I had been hearing Tuesday might be a no travel day.
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They actually extended the winter storm warning for my county after the icing had already. Gwinnett county, county south of mine, is just under a winter weather advisory even though they are getting decent icing and my parents have been without power for awhile.

The models don't ever really handle the cold air wedge that well, most all the forecast had us well above freezing by now.

It's definitely a local thing though, with the forecast being off.
 
WolfofMebu said:
Southern hall county, been without power since around 7. Wife and I went waking around 8:30, could here the trees falling and the see the flashes in the sky from transformers blowing.

They sure missed the forecast on this one.
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Yeah, my parents in north Hall texted me to let me know that they've been without power as well.

We just had a little bit of flickering in Tucker.
 
I haven't heard of any power outages here in North Fulton so far, but I'll be damned if I'm getting on that road at 7am. They'll just have to deal with me working from home.
 
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