Atlanta's Total Lack of Preparedness - CNN.com

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piece up at CNN.com on the Atlanta Ice Capades: Atlanta's Total  Lack of Preparedness

It's just water.

Of course it is frozen in the form of ice. Driving on ice is a fool's errand. On ice it is hard to stop (or start) moving. On ice, vehicle control is difficult at best. You don't need to be a transportation engineer to know that crashes increase with snow and especially ice, with its reduced friction. The problem is not that Atlanta got snow, but that the snow turned into ice.

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Should Atlanta have been better prepared? In retrospect, the answer is obvious. In prospect it should have been as well.

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