Boats For Sale:
The new snowbelt |
Post Reply 
|
| Author | |
skicat 
Platinum Member 
Joined: May-18-2006 Location: Duluth, GA Status: Offline Points: 1129 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Topic: The new snowbeltPosted: December-11-2017 at 12:27pm |
|
We got 7" of snow at my house just North of Atlanta. Friday traffic was terrible with everybody leaving work early to beat the snow. I got caught in it going to drain my boats before the freeze. Nothing like procrastinating!
|
|
 |
|
|
Morfoot
Grand Poobah 
Joined: February-06-2004 Location: South Lanier Status: Offline Points: 5320 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: December-10-2017 at 10:40am |
|
....and before Christmas. It was a wet commute on Friday but I went in at 4am for some OT. It started snowing HARD and with huge flakes around 1030 am. Most of the TOC was down in Hanger Bay 9 for the presentation of 1000 bicycles, 8 huge boxes of toys and a check for $50,000 to the USMC Toys for Tots program. The Holiday meal for the entire facility started right after that.
I hung around til about 1:00 and then left because the stuff was coming down and Google traffic was read on every road surrounding Atl as everyone bailed from work and early dismissals from school all happened at the same time. Thankfully for me I-75 south wasn't too bad but I still went the backway home to avoid the chaos. I had nothing at my house south of Atlanta but everyone North of the Airport got up to 6" of the stuff. Lots of folks lost power as the limbs started coming down on top of power lines. Some folks are still powerless after 2 days. I got a dusting early sat morning but it was gone after a couple hours. Facebook is a wonderful thing sometimes as people were posting pics and videos of the winter wonderland we just don't get down here and people were really exited as Christmas lights on houses and trees take on a wonderful new look when there is snow on the ground. We've never had this much snow before Christmas. I'm just glad I work in a shop and not the flight line. It was miserable out there. Wet snow.....No thanks! On a side note I took a video of the bikes lining the hallways of the TOC. These bikes were purchased by the people of ATL Tech-Ops and of course assembled by Delta Mechanics. Lots of fundraisers over the last several months (mainly food sales) to purchase them (with helmets) at black Friday prices. Truly a wonderful outreach program we do and a lot of Happy Kids on Christmas Day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=revvofhk6Zw |
|
|
"Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman"
|
|
|
|
|
Timr71
Groupie 
Joined: March-28-2016 Location: Alabama Status: Offline Points: 81 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: December-09-2017 at 2:37pm |
|
We got nearly 6 inches yesterday in Birmingham, AL. Much of it is still on the ground.
|
|
|
|
|
8122pbrainard
Grand Poobah
Joined: September-14-2006 Location: Three Lakes Wi. Status: Offline Points: 41045 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: December-09-2017 at 12:25pm |
|
3 inches of snow in Atlanta! Wow, that's more than we have on the ground up here! Tim, how was your commute to work? I also see Delta cancelled a bunch of flights due to deicing problems.
|
|
|
|
|
Post Reply
|
|
Tweet
|
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Topic Options