started snowing, or was it the day before? actually, tuesday morning when we had an update from the weather service that that weather front had shifted and would be hitting us early, we had our crews out pretreating all of our major overpasses, bridges, exit ramps, trouble spots in the metro atlanta area. what we depended on after that was car free roads in order to get that second wave of treatment down. we didn t have anything but that. why would you guys be depending on that? why would you expect that was going to be the case when we knew at that point there were lots of businesses that had not released their employees just yet and schools that had not done the name. well, as we rolled in with our crews tuesday morning laying down that pretreatment, we were working feverishly to get that. we knew if we started to lay a salt rock mixture on dry roads with commuters coming in, it was going to be virtually ineffective. it would blow away with the wind. the pretreatment has a self
think about nostgia. it s twinkie the kid. twinkies remind me of being a kid. a thing people pass down from generation to generation. reporter: they fit onto a rare category of foods with overwhelmingly amotional appeal. often they get their first twinkies from their mother puts it in the lunch box or their grandfather slips them one. there is a gift aspect to it. you might later buy yourself a twinkie. it s not the same thing. reporter: urban legend has it an unopened twinkie will last for ages. has the self life of 62 years? reporter: no. the new ones will make it more like 45 days. as a snack food with a firm place in americana, yeah, they might last forever. tom foreman, cnn, washington. george zimmerman a free man. he s lived in hiding more than a year now. he has feared for his safety and is hated by many.