Yesterday the relatively unthinkable happened: it snowed in Atlanta. The funny thing was the ground temperature wasn't even down to 32 degrees, but I guess the air temperature was cold enough. I'm not exactly sure how much snow we got...maybe half an inch (?), but it's all gone now.
The real problem here wasn't the snow itself, but the people reacting to the snow. See, it was rush hour when it started snowing, which is also when I happen to make my weekly drive out to Johns Creek, the distant Atlanta suburb where I teach at the Korean school. Ordinarily, it takes me a little under an hour to get out there during rush hour, but this time it took about an hour and 45 minutes, making me miss my first lesson (which I'll have to make up later). The crazy thing about the traffic wasn't that there was some construction or an accident. No, the vast majority of the traffic was simply due to Atlantans freaking out when they saw snow. The better part of my ride was spent going 5 MPH simply because, as Greg so aptly put it, when it snows in Georgia, everyone thinks it's the Apocalypse.
Suffice it to say that I was really pissed off, but by the time the night was over, I had cooled down (no pun intended). I'm just hoping I don't have to deal with Atlanta drivers in snow again any time soon, especially not when making my already too distant commute to an underpaying job...
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