Comments on: Decatur Area Road Conditions: Open Thread

By: PMcG

PMcG — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:33:01 +0000

As of 7:45 this morning, a CoD sand truck was spreading sand on Commerce and Church Street.

By: EF

EF — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:23:02 +0000

anyone know what avondale marta station parking lot looks like?

By: Skip

Skip — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:19:39 +0000

Global warming is to thank for these lovely storms. More warmth over the oceans adds more moisture to the air and more precipitation down wind.

By: macarolina

macarolina — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:03:16 +0000

you mean DeKalb Ave, right? any particular bad patches to look out for? did any of the downtown streets look cleared off?

By: macarolina

macarolina — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:01:17 +0000

anyone know what the parking lot looks like at East Lake MARTA?

By: Sharron

Sharron — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:53:30 +0000

Shoveled my sidewalk as well as the sidewalk for the elderly woman across the street. While I was at it I did her walk to the door, a path in her driveway to her car and had fun cleaning the snow off of her car. And it was contagious as two other 2nd Ave. neighbors did their sidewalks too!

Thanks Julie – hope others in the city responded to your great suggestion.

By: TOK

TOK — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:32:28 +0000

Huh? The City of Atlanta Just received permission to plow State roads like Peachtree and Ponce? WTF? How does divvying up plowing responsibilities like this make any sense at all? I can cut the Atlanta metro area a lot of slack for not having the equipment to handle conditions that would be well within normal range at most other U.S. cities–we’re not Minneapolis or even Memphis. But not having a plan in place to coordinate plowing in case a big storm does hit, so that Atlanta is just receiving permission to plow Ponce 2 days after the storm hits, is inexcusable.

By: karass

karass — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:23:24 +0000

City Schools of Decatur closed tomorrow.

What I’m hearing from folks who have had to drive to work or medical care or food is that the major roads have ruts cleared down to the pavement and those ruts are relatively negotiable. But idiots wanting to go faster keep swerving into the icy areas to either side and skidding, no matter that they are risking others’ well-being as well as their own.

Since I may have to venture out to work tomorrow, I entreat other drivers to:
1. Drive extremely slow. Resist the impulse to deal with the danger and stress by hurrying up to get there. It’s harder to skid when going slow and skids have less velocity.
2. Use first gear if having trouble with traction, e.g. going up a hill,. A running start in fourth gear is not a good idea on ice.
3. Do not leave the safer pavement ruts to pass on ice.
4. Stay home or travel by foot if you can. It’s been fun walking, sledding, or skiing around Decatur. Unfortunately, employment calls for some of us.

Be safe. Happy Snow Days! We will be returned to our usual programming of global warming soon.