It was awful trying to drive, because you could only inch along due to the traffic jams, and every time you stopped, it was so difficult to start moving forward again because of the ice on the road. But of course I didn’t listen and waited to leave until the afternoon when the snow was really coming down.Įveryone seemed to have left work at the same time, and there would have been gridlock even if there was no bad weather. I had a friend call me at work that morning and warn me that I needed to leave and go home immediately, because of the bad weather that was coming. I will never forget Snow Jam ’82! At that time I lived in Decatur and worked in an office in SW Atlanta. I should have given him the chocolate chip cookies!” “I gave him all the money I had in my purse. They've all heard the story about the exciting start that their Dad had as he came into the world! That son is married now and he and his wife have six kids. The roads remained treacherous for about 10 days in total. Our baby and I stayed in the hospital for a week and, aside from my husband, the only visitor I had was one friend who braved the icy road conditions to come see me.
If memory serves me correctly, our son was the only baby born that day at Piedmont, but I remember that there were twin girls in the nursery when he was there, and those are the only three babies I remember seeing. My son was born the next morning and I asked the obstetrician how he managed to get to the hospital. We watched in horror as heroes tried to save as many passengers as possible. The drama was unfolding of the Air Florida plane that crashed into the bridge over the Potomac in Washington DC and plunged into the water, a result of the same weather system that brought Snow Jam ’82 to Atlanta. I was assigned a room and switched on the TV. People had spent the night sleeping on the floor in the waiting room.
#Marta bus drags car driver
We stopped to ask if we could help and was met by a baleful glare from the driver who seemed very offended that we thought he might need help! When we arrived at Piedmont hospital, it was chaotic. On the drive to Piedmont Hospital from Toco Hills on the afternoon of the 13th, we passed an ambulance that was stuck on the side of the road. In the morning, a neighbor called to let me know they had snow chains which could fit my car-they had moved from New York and brought their snow chains with them. My husband finally walked in the door at 1 a.m., freezing and exhausted. One of their plans included discussion about trying to get a helicopter to fly me to the hospital! They knew that my husband was struggling to make it home. Meanwhile, neighbors were calling to see how I was doing, and calling one another to set up a game plan in case I went into labor. and called to let me know of his progress. In those pre-mobile phone days, he stopped at a friend's house, over a mile away from ours, around 11 p.m. He slipped and slid on the ice in his leather-soled shoes for about three miles, and finally arrived home at about 1 a.m. Night had fallen by then and he had to walk the rest of the way home. After a few hours, when the snowing had stopped, he found a colleague with a front-wheel drive car who could drive her car and they eventually made it to her neighborhood-halfway home for him. He walked back to his office where they were in party mode as the realization had set in that they were going to be stuck there. He couldn't drive more than a block from his office without sliding, so he left his car near the office. My husband, who was working downtown, tried unsuccessfully to drive home. My two daughters, who were six and three at the time, arrived home from school. Not knowing what to expect, I went to fill up my car in the window of time between hearing about the approaching storm and the ice starting to fall. When the ice started coming down, I was nine months pregnant and due to have my baby by C-section on January 14th. “When the ice started coming down, I was nine months pregnant and due to have my baby by C-section.”
Trying to Get a Helicopter to Fly Me to the Hospital!
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