My wife and I must have listened to 20 hours of forecasts from The Weather Channel and local stations starting on Sunday evening into the early Tuesday morning hours. The recurrent theme was, "This is going to be a Middle/South Georgia event. Very slight chances above Griffin, GA." One source I read said he knew for a fact that NWS people out of Peachtree City met with GaDOT people and assured them late Monday night it would be South of Atlanta. Then, all of a sudden at around 4:00 AM Tuesday, NWS says, "Oh, wait. It might hit Atl."
If I were Nathan Deal or Kasim Reed, next time there is a hint of a possibility of snow in Georgia, I would use whatever executive powers I had to shut down Atlanta beginning 12 hours before the chance of snow, to 12 hours afterward. I would order all non-essential businesses closed, all office buildings shut down, and all non-essential traffic halted, with state troopers and local LE agencies to strictly enforce the orders. I would order every school in Georgia closed for three days, to be made up at the end of the school year. Then there would be no room for accusations, vilification, and finger pointing.
