This is criminal. There are 'at least' 13 people dead.

I can't imagine, "Hi, honey I am caught in a traffic jam and may not be home ever again."

Really?

I know the national weather service is not the problem. They broadcast over emergency radio 24 hours. There is no lack of prediction anywhere. I know that for a fact.

It is lack of leadership in their willingness to admit they have a climate condition that is dangerous and unpredictable. The Polar Vortex was all over the news. To dismiss this as weather was the most deadly thing anyone could have done. There should be no watering down of the seriousness of this and the lack of leadership to be ready. This was well known to the weather services before it arrived. The leadership in the south is pathetic and to think over 13 people have died and now everyone is suppose to dismiss that because a baby was born on the highway? You've got to be joking? 

I have family that lives there. This is about as lousy a government structure as it gets. Thank God they don't live in Atlanta.

The governments in the South are about the most stupid people one can ever meet. This is not the ONLY problem. I could understand it if this was the only problem, but, the legislatures and town governments are simply incompetent. There are problems across the range of government in any of the southern states of this country. This is just the latest.

By M. Alex Johnson
Staff Writer
NBC News

...The National Weather Service (click here) wouldn't comment, but other experts were quick to leap to its defense.

"Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong," Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological Society, said of critics who alleged that the weather service botched its forecasts.

In a post on a blog he set up Wednesday specifically to defend the performance of forecasting services this week, Shepherd pointed out that the weather service issued watches and warnings well before the storm arrived, providing plenty of time for Georgia officials to make the right decisions.

"Yet, as soon as I saw what was unfolding with kids being stranded in schools, 6+ hour commutes, and other horror stories, I knew it was coming, I knew it. Some in the public, social medial or decision-making positions would 'blame' the  meteorologists," Shepherd wrote in a post titled "An Open Thank You to Meteorologists in Atlanta."

NBC News meteorologist Al Roker agreed.

"The mayor and the governor got on TV yesterday  and said all this wasn't expected, and that's not true," Roker said Wednesday on TODAY.....
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