If you didn’t like Sunday’s wind and the return of cooling temperatures, perhaps take some comfort in the fact it was far better than what was being experienced 10 years ago.
On Jan. 28, 2014, a winter storm blew through metro Atlanta, with plenty of snow beginning to fall soon after noon.
By evening, motorists were stranded on area interstates after thousands of others endured hours-long commutes trying to get home from work and school on the quickly freezing and treacherous roadways.
As Doug Turnbull, the PM drive Skycopter anchor for Triple Team Traffic on 95.5 WSB and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Gridlock Guy, recounted in a past column , it’s “a day that will live in Atlanta infamy.”
From the sky: Aerial photos of Atlanta Snowmageddeon 2014
Turnbull noted: “Metro Atlanta awakened to what we thought was an average Tuesday and some overblown, distant threat. People went to work and school like normal, though the winter storm warning actually went to effect in the 3 a.m. hour. …