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[QUOTE="Timonen, post: 915199, member: 81"]
what do you gain by fighting this point?  atl has ~5M people in the metro area.  every commuter, kid in school and person going to get them (plus everyone waiting on those folks and coordinating help, etc) was impacted.  You really want to parse numbers?  To what end?

[I]"During the day, we have a million to 1.2 million people in this city and all those people were out in very bad weather. It hampered our ability to get our equipment on the ground and to prepare our roads for that," Reed told a news conference.
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/winter-storm-brings-39-once-decade-39-ice-020122982--finance.html[/url]
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"We got a million people out of the city," Reed said[/I]
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"So that's roughly 5 million people who all got on the roads at the same time, which clearly caused a massive traffic jam. Then, while they're out there, the snow gets worse, turns into slush, and then, eventually, full-on sheets of ice. And, while everyone was in gridlock, they couldn't reload the salt trucks because the gridlock was too thick to navigate back to the salt storage areas (we have 30 trucks and 40 plows in ATL proper)," Medwed said.
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[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/atlanta-traffic-hell-why/[/url]
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