![]() ![]() ![]() And he was running on less than a quarter-tank of gas. That's what kept him from walking in the cold. He was wearing a suit, but had no coat, hat or gloves. He wasn't as prepared as he would have hoped. Motorists started abandoning cars, trucks, school buses - or like him, they slept in their cars, he said. She left him at his job at 12:05 p.m., anticipating a 20-minute drive to her home from midtown Atlanta to the suburb of Johns Creek. ![]() Neill's story is typical of the chaos that gripped the region.Ī real estate agent, Neill had lunch with her husband Tuesday as the snow began to fall. "The mistake here is that no one expected the snow to hit as quickly," said Neill, who was stranded in gridlock for 10 hours. "It was a like a scene from The Walking Dead," said Maura Neill, 38, referring to the television series about a post-apocalyptic world overtaken by zombies. People in this car-dependent city walked for miles, hunched over and huddled from the cold. The usually bustling roadways in the Atlanta metropolitan area resembled a scene in a post-apocalyptic world during and after Tuesday's snow and ice storm.Ĭars abandoned at odd angles on side streets, thoroughfares and major interstates.
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