Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis—A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters

by Samantha Montano

In 2014, Atlanta succumbed to a snowstorm, dubbed “Snowmageddon,” which brought about two inches of snow and ice to the southern city.266 These exact same conditions in Boston would have been just another Tuesday, but in Atlanta it brought the city to a stop. Hundreds of accidents occurred throughout the city as people tried to get home on icy roads. Some children stayed at school overnight while other commuters had to take refuge in nearby stores and businesses that opened their doors. Atlanta didn’t have the equipment or systems in place to manage this kind of storm and so the impacts were more severe.

Also late forecast .. Midday panicked release by mayor before the city and state had finished making their first treatment runs blocking those assets into logjams of traffic as more than a million cars hit the highways in the metro area