[alleystreetindustry]

nutso enviro's
i just so happen to be a proud "nutso enviro", but the thing 'those people' don't/didn't understand is that you may be saving the oysters now with all that water, but when we run out of water, the oysters will too. why put the both of us through that?

[JDRCRASH]

Is it economically reasonable to make such a sacrifice?

How big is the Oyster fishing industry?

[scguy]

Ice storms are more common in the piedmont region than most other regions in the country.
We may not always have accumulating snow, but snow falls from the sky every year.

I think the reason why Atlanta usually sees one (usually never more than one though) Ice storm a year is because the temps stay too warm for it to actually snow. Most of these ice storms are actually freezing rain. Snow or sleet falls from the sky then melts before reaching the ground. The temps may be just above or right at freezing but on impact the rain turns into ice, creating a big mess, especially for tree limbs and powerlines. Most of the snow I have seen is when temps are below freezing BUT not always.

Of course that is not to say that it never snows in Atlanta or gets below freezing....it definately does. Look at the weather map when we are getting a big weather system on the east coast. Middle and South Georgia are getting rain, Atlanta and northward getting freezing rain and ice and Tennesee and northward its usually snow.