When the snow was predicted, I, like everyone else, pretty much said, “yah, whatever!” and went my merry way. Well, we all know how that turned out. Nick was very fortunate to be a) on this side [East] of the city and b) get through in the nick of time. It only took him 1.5 hours to get home. We had friends who slept in their cars and didn’t get home until Wed afternoon. It was shocking and makes me want to up our game when it comes to prepping for weather, war, zombies or whatnot. You can be sure my canning and preserving will be trebled once we get a new place and I’ve got storage.
I also do not agree with blaming the various governments for the disaster. The weather reports were NOT agreeing on what was going to happen. I saw “light dusting of snow” until around NOON. SO I find it hard to criticise the bureaucrats for what happened. Atlanta has FOUR salt trucks, people! And two of them ran into each other while trying to leave the lot. And even if they had gotten to the main roads, gridlock happened in about an HOUR. DOT couldn’t have salted in any case. Gridlock is because of sprawl. It’s too late to do anything about that. This is the best article I’ve read about the whole incident over at Politico, by Rebecca Burns.
DJ update: he seems to be faring well without the fluconazole. His bloody vomit has ceased and he’s eating a bit better. I’ll take that as a WIN. He’s still old and frail, but he’s eating.
Nick changed out the plugs/wires in the new Ranger and had to have the pros do the last two due to their location. The mechanics gave it a once over and found that the tensioner/pulley assembly is loose. So we’ve got that repair to look forward to. ::sigh:: It’s still better than a payment.
Still house hunting, but it looks like Carthage Rd in Tucker is The One. Tons of space, priced right and not in the ghetto. I’d love to be ITP and nearer to Avondale Estates, but dammit, I’m sick of the ghetto and I will NOT live in Scottdale or Clarkston. NO WAY. 30033, 30345 and 30084 are our targets and so far 30084 (Tucker) is the only one yielding any decent, spacious houses. We saw a piece of SHIT in 30033 that was proudly asking $195k; it was tiny, unrenovated and needed at least $15k of work. BUT they will probably get that price because it’s next to a nice school on Medlock. 30033 has “Next to Decatur” syndrome and therefore most properties are overpriced. Same for 30345 (LaVista Rd/Oak Grove area w/ Lakeside HS). There is a REALLY nice house in 30084, but it’s WAY out off of Pleasantdale Road and just too damn far. Shame, tho, it’s fully renovated and priced at $169k. WAH.
My freebie Apple monitor died this morning. It had the death blinks (power light blinks in codes; this one was “backlight dying”) for as long as I’ve had it and finally died. I’m using the wee little 15″ Dell monitor off the server today. It’s so cute! Rocking like it’s 1995! My dock icons are so teeny that I can’t read the badges! LOL This has also prompted me to clean up my gazillion folders laying around on my desktop. That shit is out of control, yo.
I guess that’s it for the State of the Weasels right now. I’ll keep you updated about the move as info becomes available. :)
Happy weekend!
4 salt trucks. Holy shizzle. Ya, they wouldn’t be able to do much anyways, but then I guess the argument would turn to why they only have 4 trucks??? The next ice age may be around the corner. Atlanta bettah get more trucks.
House hunting is fun. Too bad I don’t get to do it right now. Maybe in another 5 years or so. Boooo!!