MADISON - Roger Alan Zietlow, age 73, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, at SSM Health St. Mary Hospital - Madison after battling COPD and Congestive Heart
counting. people sat in their cars on icy roads all day and all night. cold, hungry, absolutely stuck. a true urban nightmare. the next state over, in birmingham, alabama, people experienced the same unwinding of normal life. frankly, the snow and ice largely won. steven nix took this photo yesterday near birmingham, alabama, this is on i-280, showing where drivers gave up on trying to drive and started walking down the highway to try to find some sort of shelter. some of what happened in this great snowpocalypse of 2014 was just an act of god. waking up in the south to snow is kind of like waking up in new hampshire to quick sand. it looks less like the act of god and more on the part of bad
it, a couple inches, maybe three, but the result was an urban nightmare, truly terrible. like a zombie movie, gridlock that stretched for miles along the highways that bring commuters into and out of atlanta every day. it seems like every commuter in greater atlanta decided to rush home all at once, and then at the same time, officials called off school and started sending kids home. except that nobody in a car or truck or bus could go anywhere for hours, for five hours, ten hours and 12 and 20 hours and counting. people sat in their cars on icy roads all day and all night. cold, hungry, absolutely stuck. a true urban nightmare. the next state over, in birmingham, alabama, people experienced the same unwinding of normal life. frankly, the snow and ice largely won. steven nix took this photo yesterday near birmingham, alabama, this is on i-280,
it seems like every commuter in greater atlanta decided to rush home all at once, and then at the same time, officials called off school and started sending kids home. except that nobody in a car or truck or bus could go anywhere for hours, for five hours, ten hours and 12 and 20 hours and counting. people sat in their cars on icy roads all day and all night. cold, hungry, absolutely stuck. a true urban nightmare. the next state over, in birmingham, alabama, people experienced the same unwinding of normal life. frankly, the snow and ice largely won. steven nix took this photo yesterday near birmingham, alabama, this is on i-280, showing where drivers gave up on trying to drive and started walking down the highway to try to find some sort of shelter. some of what happened in this great snowpocalypse of 2014 was just an act of god. waking up in the south to snow