ATLANTA – More than two inches of snow fell in metro Atlanta on a Friday in January, 11 years ago. It began late in the morning, when hundreds of thousands of students were in schools and many of the region’s 2.6 million workers were in their places of employment.
And on that day – Jan. 28, 2014 – almost everyone tried to go home around noon.
What followed was a day that will live in Atlanta infamy. Within 20 minutes, the major roadways ground to a halt, and remained that way for up to 24 hours. Thousands of students spent the night at their schools. Drivers spent the night in freezing cars. A woman gave birth on Interstate 285. The region became a national laughingstock…