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Message: [QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 915411, member: 830"] not an exaggeration, which is why this storm was so unique. i would be willing to say it took at least a million people 4+ hours to get home, and many thousands 20+ hours (i believe there were 5000 students in atlanta stuck at school for the night, of which, something like 900 were stuck on buses all night). it wasn't so much the snow, it was the snow coupled with the traffic. and yes, EVERYONE tried to leave at the same time, which is one of the biggest issues. yes, 2 inches of snow should not do this and syracuse can handle 2 inches of snow, but you couple 2 inches of snow (which is equivalent to a blizzard in syracuse when it comes to cities being able to handle volumes they are use to), and add 1M+ people (probably in Atlanta city proper alone, more like 4M+ in the metropolitan area) trying to go home at the same time, it is cause for a disaster [/QUOTE]