Mama Carol

Perhaps store policy as far as the compressed air is concerned but not for the medications. That is government mandate, through the DEA and state laws if I'm not mistaken. Some states have a registry that tracks the sales of pseudophredrine across state lines. Most states have a limit of 15 tablets a day that one person can purchase. But in some states, Oklahoma for instance, you must wait 72 hours to purchase more of **anything** that contains pseudophredrine. Really bad news if you and your whole family have a legitimate need for it.

I take it you haven't tried to buy lighters or spray paint or certain types of glue. There's something else they ask for your birthdate when you buy it at Walmart and I can't remember what it is. Then there is the "real" Sudafed that I used to take. I say "used to take" because I refuse to be treated like a druggie when I'm only trying to clear my sinuses. If I get bad enough, I'll go to the doctor and get some good drugs. My question is this. Have the incidents of meth labs decreased since all of this crap took effect? What about the number of meth users? Has that decreased? I'd b

Might be a good time to go to school and get that. No reason not to get skills that could help you get a job while you're looking for a job.

Are you sure it is the anti-theft system that is the problem? I ask because my husband's 2008 Saturn Sky would do that. Usually he just waited a while and it would start but he was at a rest stop on I-75 in Chattanooga and had to have the car towed to a Saturn dealer to be fixed. It was an ignition switch problem.Glad someone else has that car now.

I've known them since they were kids. Their mom was the kindergarten teacher, and part time babysitter, for my youngest daughter. A lot of accidents happened there. Hey, it just dawned on me, you could see my house from Lewis! There was another milder snow in 1973 that came during the week. We were dismissed early from school. It was sometime after March 20 because it was after the first day of spring.

Oh, I agree about the actual unemployment rate being higher than the official 7.4%. I totally believe that. I was quoting the Bureau of Labor Statistics rate. I am quite sure they are wrong. I don't doubt that the local rate is higher than the 5% quoted but to be honest, I don't see as many unemployed here. Almost anyone who wants to work here does. My next door neighbor has been unemployed for about two years, since the company she worked for relocated and she didn't go. She is starting work next week. She is so excited about that. She didn't even start looking until last month.

Our economy is booming. Wish it was doing as well up there. We have a good amount of construction going on, new manufacturing facilities open almost every month, new call centers open almost weekly (believe it or not, this is the call center capital of the US). State unemployment rate was something like 6.1 last month, as compared to the national rate of 6.7% and a Georgia rate of 7.4%. Our county unemployment rate was around 5% for December. I've turned down two jobs since we have been here simply because I had a bad feeling about the first one and the second one turned out to be so

I thought of my son in law and how fortunate he is to be out of Waffle House. He would undoubtedly been working on and on. At least if he had to work in his last job he could have walked there and not been in too much danger. He walked to work more often than he drove anyway. But he would have had to be there, too. And in retail. For what? In his case, he didn't work for a place that sold emergency supplies or groceries so unless there was a sudden need for relaxer, there wouldn't have been much point in that store being open during a time the roads were impassable.

I can understand getting out and going to work if you work in something essential--police, fire, healthcare--but not retail. Good heavens, who is going to be out shopping for a new iPhone or swimsuit when the roads aren't passable?

I don't consider my safety to be a luxury. What good is the money I would get paid if I come in for the day if I'm laid up in the hospital, have broken a leg, hip or arm and have to stay out of work anyway, have a car that isn't driveable or I'm dead. I made the choice once to go to work despite the weather. I felt it was my DUTY to my employer to be there. By the time I managed to get in the parking lot I swore I would never again do that because MY safety was far more important than having someone in the office to answer the phone. After that, we had almost every member of the staf

I know that house!! We were not far from you. We lived on Karron Dr, just off Lewis between Hiram Lithia and Oglesby. I had friends who lived on Mann and on Howard. And Suggs. Small world, huh?

Maybe I'm not the typical employee either. Or maybe I learned how to deal with asshat bosses when I worked for one when I was young, stupid, naive and in desperate need of a job. Didn't take me long to realize there were more important things than trying to please a boss who wouldn't be happy no matter what you did. Funny thing. My husband never had anyone say two words to him for not being there when the weather was bad or he was too sick to go. And I KNOW he's not the typical employee.

After I got over being young and stupid, I never again let the need for money overrule what I did to remain safe. Money is important but my life is more important. If you can't wait for the work to be done when road conditions are safe, do it yourself. I have been very fortunate to have wonderful, understanding bosses. In fact, on Monday I went by and gave one of my former bosses a great big hug........ and was offered my old job back! Not that I could go back since the 350 mile commute would be a nightmare. This was the fourth job offer by a former employer since I moved, or was

If my boss fired me for coming in when the roads were treacherous at best, I would be leaving a horrible work place anyway and would be better off. I haven't lived paycheck to paycheck in a long time, so if I missed a day of work or got fired for not going in when the weather wasn't fit to go outside, it wouldn't matter a whole lot. Seems as though employers who know they don't have you over a barrel are more willing to make allowances. As I said earlier, I have told every boss I've had since 1978 that if schools were closed on account of weather or if there was snow I WOULD NOT BE A

My safety comes before my bosses wishes that I be there.

It makes no difference when the governor was notified. He has nothing to do with issuing weather warnings, dismissing schools or the citizens using common sense. If he had not been notified until the next day it would not have made a difference in his responsibility or the capacity of his duties. The roads turned icy earlier than expected. EVERYWHERE. Weather prediction is not an exact science. As much as the general public would like to think it is, it isn't. It does not take a genius to look at a weather map that was issued by NOAA on Monday that showed heavy snow possible i

But you just said "There was certainly no broadcast made before 4:00 o'clock AM, on TV, or regular radio." I'm pretty sure 3:38 a.m. is before 4:00 a.m. So, was the weather information updated to the warning before the governor woke up? If not, why? He does not issue official weather information. He does not tell the local TV and radio stations what to broadcast. Why should his presence in the state even be needed for a weather related bulletin to be issued or broadcast?

I think that was the year I realized that the street behind me was served by Georgia Power while we had Greystone. I was off Lewis, between Hiram Lithia and Oglesby. And literally, the street behind me (Karron Lane) was on Georgia Power. Seemed strange to me that they split up the subdivision that way, with one street having service from one power company and the other street having service from another power company. But on the plus side, there were times we didn't lose power and they did. We usually had power unless something happened between us and the substation near Sun Valley at Hol

It is not the responsibility of businesses to see that their employees use their head and stay safe. Last time I looked, the governor did not have anything to do with when weather bulletins were issued by NWS. Nor with when the local TV stations broadcast those bulletins. And the news/bulletin/warning can't be broadcast before it's issued. It doesn't matter what time it was if nobody paid attention to it. Therein lies the problem. Not that the governor was asleep. NOBODY paid attention to it. Nobody learned from the previous storms. Seems Georgia residents are getting to be like

It may be different here but Florida DOT shut down over 100 miles of I-10 the other day due to ice. Yep, that meant truckers, tourists, snowbirds and commuters had to find an alternate route from Mariana, FL to Mobile, AL for part or all of three days. They just re-opened I-10 last night. And they opened it in stages so there would not be a backlog of trucks on the highway. I don't really know the answer but I do know that what FDOT did seemed to have worked well. While trucks were delayed, they were not blocking access to the interstate. And they kept moving in a lot of cases. Just

There was one back in the early to mid 1960s that came on Sunday. We were without power for at least a week. I was in the living room watching "Bonanza" when the power went out. There was also one in 1996 that happened on Sunday. Sunday January 7 to be exact. I had to go to St Joseph's Hospital on Friday after that and there was still snow along 285 and in the hospital parking lot.

NOAA All-Hazards weather radio. Usually about $30. And trust me, they WILL wake you up. You don't have to wait for someone to pass a note or send a Pony Express rider with a letter or for someone to wake the governor. You will be awakened WHEN the weather bulletin is issued by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, THE official weather bulletin organization. Hard to believe the Governor's Mansion doesn't have one. Or wherever the GEMA director lives. But again, what the hell does GEMA being late notifying the governor about the warning have to do with the fact that several

WTH does GEMA have to do with the schools dismissing after ice was forming on roads? Could the superintendents or principals not walk outside and see ice forming? Could NOBODY turn a radio or computer or a weather radio to the National Weather Service? The NWS broadcasts 24/7/365. There is NO excuse for anyone not to know that the warning had been issued. Wake up folks. This is NOT something you need GEMA to tell the governor who then tells the news media who then tell the school superintendents who then tell the parents. If you're going to do that, might as well go back to passing note

I think the NWS meteorologists did the best they could. They issued a warning before 4 a.m. They issue the OFFICIAL advisories, watches and warnings, not the local TV stations. Just like the severe storm center in Norman, OK issues official storm warnings of a particular nature (tornado watches and warnings). My question is this: if the NWS issued the warning before 4 a.m. on Tuesday, what the hell took the school officials (not just in Paulding but also in Douglas and apparently Fulton) so long to respond to it? Where did they get THEIR information? Was their information faulty or

It was mid-January, around the 11th or 12th I think. Seems like it was a Tuesday but I don't remember the day of the week clearly. Don't remember if the worst came overnight or not. I do remember my husband going in the garage and opening the garage door in time to see our elderly neighbor across the street fall down. As best he could, considering he was going downhill on snow and ice and then across a street and down a driveway, my husband ran to help the neighbor. I took off down to the street as well but my husband had such trouble crossing the road that he told me to stay in our yard.