Today's image is not an artistic one. However, I wanted to show all my 365 friends what my little neck of the woods has looked like the past week. This is the main road my neighborhood is on - it is very hilly and is also one of the heaviest traveled two lane roads in my county. For three days, it was completely blocked with scores of wrecked cars. Looked like a disaster movie in real life. Worth enlarging to see the magnitude of this train wreck.
Many people who are not from Georgia have wondered how 2 or 3 inches of snow could stop a city of 6 million people in its tracks. The road surface was warm but the air temperature was frigid so the snow immediately melted and turned to ice. That made the roads impassable.
What a mess! The hills must have complicated the problem. I'm curious about something. When I was in San Francisco during the 1989 earthquake, clearing the Bay Bridge of abandoned cars was complicated by people locking their cars, so that the guys towing them couldn't get them out of Park. A lot of cars were towed with their wheels locked, which was not a good thing for them. Was that a problem during your snow jam?
@rvwalker I don't mean to reply on Danny's behalf, but most of the towing I saw being done was with the flatbed tow trucks they have now where the car is winched right onto the back of the truck rather than having the front or rear lifted and towed like a trailer.
(Linda @se7en)