The Buerglers

Unless you've been living under a rock you have heard of the mockery made of the city of Atlanta by ya know, everyone, including  Al Roker and Jon Stewart . "How did they no know?....... The Weather Channel is actually located IN ATLANTA!" In our defense there was a chain reaction of poor decisions, like not pretreating the roads nor calling off school.  On top of our preexisting inability to handle situations like these.  Our city is sprawled. It's hilly.  It has a lot of really big highways. We have 3+ million people that commute in and out of the city each day. About 6 million people total.  And like 7-30 trucks equipped to handle the salting and plowing. The snow storm came in faster and harder than anticipated the day before.  School was called off between 10am-12pm for 12pm-2pm dismissals. But it was too late. We already had an inch of snow in parts of the suburbs. Add people who don't know how to drive in snow, 3 million cars on the road and ...

I'm not exactly sure where this originated.  It's been passed around via email all day. Ahhhhhh.

Call it what you will. Its awful out there.  For three days. Here's how Snowcation 2011 has gone down for the Buerglers. Sunday. The forecast for the 4-11 inches of snow called for the weather to turn around 9pm.  However, running a youth group that ends at 8 pm, could potentially be dangerous.  Around 1pm we decided to cancel youth group incase the snow came early, especially for our parishioners that live far away. So a good percentage of the adult volunteers went to Taco Mac for beers and queso!  It's always fun to bond with them, especially when the teens aren't around :) We all left around 9pm, when the roads were still dry as a bone.  By 10, however, we'd had over an inch of snow. I went to be around 1 am.  I'd earned my s uper duper and epic swarm badge   on foursquare.com for checking into Snowcation Hothlanta 2011.  The nerd in me was satisfied (it was like geeky Christmas!) and the ground had a good 4 inches of snow. ...