UPDATE on my son in Atlanta

12 years ago

This is from my daughter-in-law: UPDATE... Bill is now moving.... He's driving slow but he's moving trying to avoid the black ice.... Could be within the hour he will be home... I will keep y'all posted!!! Thank you for all of your prayers, calls, texts, & FB messages!! Love you all I will let you know!!!

Lana here..thanks to all of you for your support.

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Granlan_TX
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12 years ago
and another update:

Another update Bill can't make it up the main hill.. So he's now on foot..... But he's close.. Roads are full of snow and ice still no getting out of this neighborhood..
grandmamary_ga
12 years ago
I live north of Atlanta and the roads were very treacherous yesterday everywhere. I know as we were out in that mess about 10:30 am yesterday and it just got worse and worse. What normally would have been a 10 minute ride to our home took us a long dangerous 30 minutes. No we were not on a freeway but it was a main thoroughfare, Just after the snow started and freezing. Roads were horrible no sanding or salting had been done and we saw 2 wrecks on the way home. Once there we learned that schools were letting out and we worried about our grand daughter who had driven to school and there was no way she would let her grandpa come get her. Leave her car at school, no way she said. She would rather have an accident then have the car in a safe place. Do kids ever learn maybe when she is my age. lol But she did make it to our house safely. Today it is still icy on our street and she is walking to a friends house to go sledding. Kids.
I hope your son makes it home safe and sound. Sun is out now , sky is blue but it is still cold outside. They say it will melt and then refreeze overnight.
I hope the students and educators who had to sleep at school overnight are now able to leave. Get home safely to their families and loved ones.
My great niece (7) rides with a carpool parent and what normally takes them 10 minutes took them 5 HOURS to get to her home Good job carpool driver.
Let the melting begin.
Mary
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lucillle
12 years ago
Sending prayers and good thoughts that he gets home soon, gets to have a hot bath, hot chocolate, and a well deserved rest after going through all that!!! (And you too, Lana, sometimes Moms go through just as much during crises).
Granlan_TX
Original Author
12 years ago
He's home!! How anyone can look this good after almost 24 hrs. stuck in a car and then walking over a mile to finally reach home is a miracle!!! :)

How scary Mary!! And thanks Lucy!
terilyn
12 years ago
So glad he made it home safely!
patti43
12 years ago
Yay, he made it and he's ALMOST smiling! He sure is tall!! Glad for the updates. Funny how we worry about someone we've never met.
Granlan_TX
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12 years ago
I'd be looking like I'd been rung through the wringer..don't know how he looks so good, but love to see that smile!

Yes Patti, my baby boy is 6'5" and wears a size 15 shoe. Maybe those big feet helped him walk safer than most.. kinda like your own snow shoes. haha
lindaohnowga
12 years ago
Very thankful to see your update, letting us know he made it home safely. I pray everyone else will soon get home safely too, especially those poor children stuck on schoolbusses and in the schools.

I've seen one truck and one ambulance go down our road very slowly.
chisue
12 years ago
This is on the national news. I'm confused. Why wasn't there a weather advisory, telling people to stay home?

Our DS and family in Chicago had two days of school closings Monday and Tuesday.
rob333 (zone 7b)
12 years ago
YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

is that strong enough? I hate to worry about my child and not being able to help him, so I hear ya. Drives me crazy. Especially when I can't get to where (what I edited) he is. I have been watching and wondering. Glad to be relieved for you.

This post was edited by rob333 on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 13:16
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
12 years ago
I have been following and praying for a good update and so happy to see he made it home safely. Now I hope his truck is ok and still there when he can get back to it.

When a storm like that is totally unexpected it is hard for any area to prepare for it. If you are in a target area then yes they can give you a heads up for preparing and alerts. This thing just went out of the range of the forecasts.
Even my family down in Louisiana have been really hard hit with the serious ice. The power company was letting it's customers know there could be power outages, several hundred were already with out power. The ice just weights down the lines and trees to the breaking point. It just is not common in those areas to deal with these abnormal situations.
sjerin
12 years ago
Thanks for letting us know he's home safe and sound, Granlan! What a humungous relief!

Yes, Mother Nature does send us surprises sometimes. The area affected was blindsided.
linda_in_iowa
12 years ago
I just heard in CNN that the mayor and Gov. said the National Weather Service misled them. Snow was predicted to be 1 to 2 inches and they got 2.6 inches. Atlanta doesn't have enough equipment to spread salt on all the freeways in advance of the snow. CNN also said it would take a week to clear all the abandoned cars from the freeways. A lot of folks ran out of gas.
sheilajoyce_gw
12 years ago
And I saw the Today Show weatherman Al Roker say that there had been warnings since Monday of that storm in Atlanta. He adamantly said the governor and mayor clearly had decided to gamble and not spend the money to pre treat roads and hills. A warning of 1-2 inches that in reality becomes 2.6 inches is pretty darn close to accurate in weather forecasting.

This post was edited by sheilajoyce on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 16:06
ghoghunter
12 years ago
Wow what a handsome young man!!!! Great news he is home safe and sound!
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susanjf_gw
12 years ago
wondered why so many got caught out! boy I'd have a thing or 2 to say to the governor...
our emergency crews couldn't salt (it would melt and make ice) but plowed as best as they could here in detroit....

glad everyone is home safe and sound!!
ont_gal
12 years ago
awww Lan-so sorry,but totally understandable that you were so worried,but certainly happy to hear that he made it home,safe and sound.....hugs.....
redcurls
12 years ago
He's a sight for sore eyes! Glad he's home.

The weather forecasts are wrong at least as often as they're right. And the newscasts just pour it on when there's anything predicted. "They" are predicting a MAJOR snow event in the East for Tuesday or Wednesday of next week...I'm not even sure there is a way to predict that far ahead!

This post was edited by redcurls on Thu, Jan 30, 14 at 2:28
rosemaryt
12 years ago
Quoting from SheliaJoyce: "And I saw the Today Show weatherman Al Roker say that there had been warnings since Monday of that storm in Atlanta. He adamantly said the governor and mayor clearly had decided to gamble and not spend the money to pre treat roads and hills. A warning of 1-2 inches that in reality becomes 2.6 inches is pretty darn close to accurate in weather forecasting."

SheliaJoyce, I agree 100%!!! And the Weather Channel is saying the same thing about their accuracy of their reporting.

SHAME on the mayor for throwing *all* the meteorologists under the bus like that. What happened to people taking responsibility for their own poor choices, especially when those poor choices cause so much human sufferinng?

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