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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Feb 12, 2014, 06:29 PM Feb 2014

Live Winter Storm Blog: Traffic Chaos May Turn Raleigh and Charlotte Into This Storm’s Atlanta

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/12/pax_winter_storm_brings_ice_snow_chaos_to_the_south.html?

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Live Winter Storm Blog: Traffic Chaos May Turn Raleigh and Charlotte Into This Storm’s Atlanta (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2014 OP

Unfortunately there are a bunch of RWers here who think closing business is for wimps. blm Feb 2014 #1

This was possibly worse.... marions ghost Feb 2014 #2

blm

(113,065 posts)

1. Unfortunately there are a bunch of RWers here who think closing business is for wimps.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 07:24 PM

Feb 2014

I am hearing about a lot of employees who were told they had to come to work.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)

2. This was possibly worse....

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 08:09 PM

Feb 2014

The one I remember best was 20 inches of snow in 2000....!

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/154459/

This was Raleigh-Durham.

Couldn't get out for days. Lost my mom's poodle in a bottomless drift (but a bigger dog rescued her). Serious bad. Many people in shelters. Snow plows could not cope. People had to be rescued from the interstates by Humvees. Hospitals barely managing.

But that's pretty unusual...

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