I am telecommuting today, as the entire area is shut down and the roads impassable for most people. We still have school buses stuck in stalled in the roads since yesterday, and people spending the night in their autos.

I left the office early yesterday, it had been snowing steady for three hours already and we were getting reports of snarled traffic and accident pileups. This image is from the Alpharetta Patch report about roads close to our offices , from shortly before we started leaving. It doesn't look that bad until you realize that drivers here only see this every 4 or 5 years. I pedalled past about a mile of cars on this road who were already barely moving and then opted to cut through the Greenway instead of dealing with traffic. There were about 2-3 inches of snow in places, little ice on the surface yet so it wasn't difficult even on my road bike. Except for having to stop once to chip ice off the derailleurs, brakes and pulleys. Still that part of trip home was an all-time record slow for me at around 11 mph.