Global Warming Strikes Heartland with Icy Winter Blast
Publisher's note: A belt of Arctic like weather, set to pack severe Ice Storms, is stretching and and bearing down on the heartland from as far west as Texas all the way to Atlanta and up into the Northeast. We at The Patriots Press join the rest of the nation and hope that all those in the wake of this storm will be minimally effected and remain unharmed.
Fox News: ATLANTA – The city dodged the first punch of a dangerous winter storm Tuesday, but forecasters warned of a potentially "catastrophic" second blow in a thick layer of ice that threatened to bring hundreds of thousands of power outages and leave people in their cold, dark homes for days.
The streets and highways in metro Atlanta were largely deserted as people in the South's business hub heeded advice from officials to hunker down at home, especially after the snow jam two weeks ago saw thousands of people stranded on icy, gridlocked roads for hours when 2 inches of snow fell.
"Last time I was totally unprepared, I was completely blindsided," said Lisa Nadir, of Acworth, who sat in traffic for 13 hours and then spent the night in her car when the storm hit Jan. 28. "I'm going to be prepared from now on for the rest of my life."