SubponticatePoster posted:No, I live in Utah. Hence "5 inches of snow is barely an inconvenience." I can only imagine Atlanta trying to deal with that. I never had a snow day in school, even when it snowed several feet. We're pretty used to it. Well, except this year when it's 50 degrees right now (late March weather) and it's only snowed any appreciable amount in the valley twice this winter. The company I contract for has a customer service office about 40 minutes from Atlanta, so we got basically live coverage from the four women who worked there. Having never dealt with even a few inches of snow in their lives, just about everyone flew into a blind panic. They were abandoning cars along the side of the road in droves if they didn't think they could drive on the ice, people were locking themselves away from civilization like the end times were coming, and drivers who only knew how to drive in the summer were stomping on the gas and sailing into the ditches. A lot of the problems could have been solved if they paused to think and use their eternal connection to the gigantic repository of networked human knowledge that is the internet and get advice on how to deal with the unusual weather, as opposed to using their lizard brains.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 18:57 |
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Pravda on the Patoka
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 18:58 |
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zoux posted:Sorry Ben Carson, I didn't realize you had legit and realistic fears about gay wedding cakes. I wanna open a gay-only bakery and deny him service. Then make it black-gay only, and deny service to all whites.
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Mineaiki posted:So Republican governor of my state and potential 2016 US Presidential candidate Mike Pence has proposed a state news agency called Just IN. These are the 'librul news media' that is being fought by the creation of the state-run news service.
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With enough wind, 5 inches can gently caress up some of the plains states, especially with the way they put big call center buildings on cheap land in the suburbs/exurbs. I worked at such a place a few years back and I think it was a 6" storm that came through. Since little else was nearby to stop what came from probably several cubic miles of snow-filled airspace, it all collected against the side of the big call center building in a drift about 25ft high and 150ft long, merging at the bottom with another drift coming up the embankment from the frozen pond outside. The storm didn't inhibit travel or anything except for the visual/slick conditions at the height of the storm, but you had the occasional "tail lights poking from a garage-sized drift." If you don't have anything to get in the way of sufficiently dry snow it just keeps blowing until it hits something. The lawn crews just ignored the drift once the engineers said the building would hold, and just cleared the walkways of the few inches they collected. God forbid the entryway was on the windward side, though. That could have been messy.
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chitoryu12 posted:The company I contract for has a customer service office about 40 minutes from Atlanta, so we got basically live coverage from the four women who worked there. Having never dealt with even a few inches of snow in their lives, just about everyone flew into a blind panic. They were abandoning cars along the side of the road in droves if they didn't think they could drive on the ice, people were locking themselves away from civilization like the end times were coming, and drivers who only knew how to drive in the summer were stomping on the gas and sailing into the ditches. nah the problem was that it was a normal day, until the government said "come get your kids we're closing the schools" around noon and everyone hit the roads at the same time. atlanta already has enough problems with rush hour traffic and bad drivers that you only need a few people to wipe out on black ice to shut the whole thing down everyone who has the option knows to stay home if there's potential snow because gently caress all that noise. nobody from my office went in that day except the tryhards and the people who recently moved here and haven't had an atlanta snow day yet
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 19:39 |
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It doesn't snow in the south, it ices. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with it because it happens infrequently to not warrant spending hundreds of millions of dollars on heavy machinery.
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Some more interesting stuff about the Atlanta ice storm last year. The Southeast in general had a few traffic fatalities, but Atlanta itself had zero traffic fatalities during the storm, if I remember correctly, and there was a huge amount of good samaritans making food, gathering blankets, and bringing it to stranded drivers, and a load of people being offered to sleep in nearby houses. A bunch of folks were using their 4x4 trucks for driving stranded people back to their cars the following day too. The fact that traffic stood still enough to allow all this to happen was a huge failure of leadership, but the Atlanta citizens acted really well for the ordeal
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:12 |
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Even in cities where drivers know what to do and there's equipment, a few stuck vehicles will stop everything on limited access roads. Look at Chicago in 2011. An accident shut down all 4 northbound lanes of lsd, then the offramps south of that had stuck cars and that was that.
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Phone posted:It doesn't snow in the south, it ices. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with it because it happens infrequently to not warrant spending hundreds of millions of dollars on heavy machinery. I dunno, when you consider all the other poo poo government--federal, state, and local--wastes its money on I'd rather waste money on something that would enable me to be prepared for stuff like the absolute poo poo-show that happened last year.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:23 |
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Maybe Governor Deal should hold a prayer rally whenever there's snow in the forecast. It worked for the drought, right?
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:28 |
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Joementum posted:Maybe Governor Deal should hold a prayer rally whenever there's snow in the forecast. It worked for the drought, right? We would ask but no one can find him.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:29 |
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zoux posted:We would ask but no one can find him. He's been raptured!
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:30 |
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Joementum posted:Maybe Governor Deal should hold a prayer rally whenever there's snow in the forecast. It worked for the drought, right? he put together a 'task force' to investigate what happened, and when we got an earthquake a month later people were all asking if he was gonna put together a task force to investigate that too
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nutranurse posted:I dunno, when you consider all the other poo poo government--federal, state, and local--wastes its money on I'd rather waste money on something that would enable me to be prepared for stuff like the absolute poo poo-show that happened last year. NC passed a law outlawing measuring the rising ocean level because it'd harm the real estate market at the Outer Banks. "Planning for the future" isn't in the loving lexicon.
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Joementum posted:Maybe Governor Deal should hold a prayer rally whenever there's snow in the forecast. It worked for the drought, right? Could I get a good summary about what Nathan Deal is all about? I used to live in GA so I'm a bit curious.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 20:35 |
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blunt for century posted:Could I get a good summary about what Nathan Deal is all about? Corruption
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blunt for century posted:Could I get a good summary about what Nathan Deal is all about? I used to live in GA so I'm a bit curious. he's a huge corrupt shitfucker but he's OUR huge corrupt shitfucker *votes straight ticket R* georgia politics have always, always been stacked against atlanta and the problem is getting worse as atlanta continues to increasingly dominate the state's economy, demography, and everything else important this too: http://flagpole.com/news/comment/2014/10/22/gov-nathan-deal-and-the-longest-corruption-scandal-in-georgia-history
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Popular Thug Drink posted:he's a huge corrupt shitfucker but he's OUR huge corrupt shitfucker *votes straight ticket R* Sounds similar to our situation here in Florida where you have the Orlando/Tampa Bay/Miami/Keys/Gainesville bloc, then the rest of the state tells them all to shut up and pretend they're still part of the Deep South because the Republicans have the state government on lockdown (hooray the state government giving no fucks about voter suppression in Miami-Dade and Broward because they're all brown people).
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Poor freshman state rep Todd Courser. Of all of the issues he prays about and strives to change about the lack of real conservative Christian values in Michigan's state government, there is one thing that weighs heavy on his heart more than any other, and which is why he published a 2,000 word screed about it yesterday. He's really unhappy about where they made him sit in the state house chamber. It may be a conspiracy from the agnostic leftists who don't want him to do God's work in Michigan. http://www.toddcourser.com/house_seats/ Todd "5Head" Courser posted:What about the seats? The next two years are going to be amazing.
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Cythereal posted:Sounds similar to our situation here in Florida where you have the Orlando/Tampa Bay/Miami/Keys/Gainesville bloc, then the rest of the state tells them all to shut up and pretend they're still part of the Deep South because the Republicans have the state government on lockdown (hooray the state government giving no fucks about voter suppression in Miami-Dade and Broward because they're all brown people). yeah pretty much miami = atlanta in terms of size and global importance, tampa = savannah, everglades = appalachians, and orlando = columbus if you replaced disney world with a massive military base
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Popular Thug Drink posted:he's a huge corrupt shitfucker but he's OUR huge corrupt shitfucker *votes straight ticket R* God I love flagpole, if for the comments section alone. Georgia politics are also especially great when you're in one of the three (two and a half?) blue enclaves in this godforsaken state
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fool_of_sound posted:Corruption Well that much is clear, what with disappearing for a while Popular Thug Drink posted:he's a huge corrupt shitfucker but he's OUR huge corrupt shitfucker *votes straight ticket R* Jesus Christ
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:03 |
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I can't believe that Fox News is still editing people's pictures like that.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:03 |
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blunt for century posted:Well that much is clear, what with disappearing for a while he didn't hit the adultery trail disappear, he's just off gladhanding film and tv execs promising them how they won't get any taxes for ten years if they just move here and hire a few people to build sets and run cameras. he has to sneak out because he gets a lot of criticism about how it's not really a good deal for the state to bribe folks with tax incentives to attract a bare few jobs just to ease up on our horrid unemployment rate if you're a twentysomething in the atlanta social scene you are guaranteed to know a good handful of people who work in the local film industry as well as at least a baker's dozen epidemiologists. the last time i dated i went on like six dates in a row with six different women who were all studying public health, it's weird
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:05 |
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That is not a Fox News photoshop. That is a real picture taken from his website.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:06 |
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Please pray for freshman Michigan Rep. Todd Courser. There's nothing wrong with him his head just looks like a Frankenstein.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:08 |
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He's the legislative branch's starting qb.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:11 |
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zoux posted:Please pray for freshman Michigan Rep. Todd Courser. There's nothing wrong with him his head just looks like a Frankenstein.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:39 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:That is not a Fox News photoshop. That is a real picture taken from his website. :joke:
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:54 |
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You knew it was coming: the House will hold a vote to repeal Obamacare next week.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 21:57 |
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Joementum posted:You knew it was coming: the House will hold a vote to repeal Obamacare next week. I thought replace was the new repeal?
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:07 |
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How has no one busted out that "definition of insanity" that politicians are mandated by law to mention once per speech?
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:08 |
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Phone posted:NC passed a law outlawing measuring the rising ocean level because it'd harm the real estate market at the Outer Banks. "Planning for the future" isn't in the loving lexicon. It's a moot point anyway because the coastal real estate market's gonna be wiped out in a couple decades: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/obama-plan-calls-for-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-the-atlantic.html
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PostNouveau posted:I thought replace was the new repeal? They would need to agree on something in order to vote on what to replace it with. The house GOP can't even agree long enough to pass the border security portion of their piecemeal immigration reform package or 'abortion bad' bills right now.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:13 |
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Joementum posted:You knew it was coming: the House will hold a vote to repeal Obamacare next week. Come and Take It
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:16 |
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It's also important to keep well-practiced at attempting to repeal obamacare. The loss of muscle memory might hinder their technique in the future. You've gotta stay limber.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:20 |
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So will it get to the White House? I could see some senate dems voting for cloture so Obama can break out the veto pen.
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:So will it get to the White House? I could see some senate dems voting for cloture so Obama can break out the veto pen. Senator Thune has said it will at least get a vote in the Senate sometime this year, but I don't think the Republicans will get 60 votes for it. Of course, there is this thing called budget reconciliation....
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I'm curious how the "repeal obamacare" thing is supposed to work for people who got insurance on the exchanges. Do they lose their insurance? Keep it but suddenly start having to pay 100% of it? What about state exchanges, would they get shut down?
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 22:27 |