Gov. Deal (R, GA) Presser on MSNBC right now lying about the weather reports

[JCMach1]

for Georgia, and why he didn't declare an emergency before the storm.

It's refreshing to see local media doing their job. They are not buying the 'I'm in charge act' he tried to trot out.

[JCMach1]

1. His decisions will cripple his state for days and probably cost lives...

[CatWoman]

19. ...

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[Ilsa]

27. So far, it looks like there haven't been

any deaths directly related to the traffic tie-up. The deaths I've heard about were accidents in rural counties where their county leadership may or may not have been on the ball.

Still, scary shit. There are special needs children that spent the night in their schools, away from parents for the first time. There are stories of other parents bringing in medication or getting prescriptions filled.

[KeepItReal]

2. Yeah he's beating up on National Weather Service

Claiming their models weren't up to date and that local weathermen were more accurate.

[JCMach1]

6. Poppycock... was following it the last 48hrs.

they weren't paying attention

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Wait, local media aaaarggghhh.

Never mind. I know that if this was my town you guys would still have to watch CNN.



And yes, it's a disaster.

[Scuba]

4. Nah, it was all the (black) Mayor of Atlanta's fault. Saw it reported on CNN.

[JCMach1]

5. Deal failed to declare an emergency until too late...

[Scuba]

7. Well sure, but the "blame the black guy" rule is in effect, so Deal's off the hook.

[JCMach1]

9. Well and Obama= NWS

[Skidmore]

8. Been watching this.

Guy is tap dancing hard.

[B2G]

10. It's getting hard to follow who's to blame here

I spent the better part of my morning on another thread arguing that the weather reports were accurate, only to be told they weren't.

So which is it?

[JCMach1]

11. just follow the lying Republican...

[B2G]

13. Bullshit

Both Deal & Reed had access to the same information and BOTH of them chose not to act on it.

Blame them both or blame neither. But at least be consistent.

[JCMach1]

23. It is the Gov. job to declare an emergency... full-stop. The mayor could have done little about

the transport network...

[CatWoman]

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[JCMach1]

26. Roker is right!

[redqueen]

12. Lots of people seem to want to blame the weather service.

It's flipping sad. The NWS did their job.

One wonders when people got the idea that forecasting was an exact science, and that they could expect conditions to develop exactly when and where they were forecasted to develop.

[Hoyt]

14. Weather reports were accurate, snow/cold/ice coming in after morning rush hour.

Folks who went to work, headed home at same time in early afternoon. Too late, roads were frozen. Happens everytime in that kind of weather pattern.

Nathan Deal is too stupid to expand Medicaid to help poor. He darn sure can't handle roads and weather.

[underpants]

15. Conservatives hate weather reports

From Santorum trying to privatize the weather (Accuweather) to local talk radio only talking to alternative (to NOAA/ the Weather Channel) weather forecasters it shows how "sciencey" they think it is.

[trishtrash]

16. Stupid, incompetent, and, oh yeah, corrupt.

This isn't going to help him in the election. Go Jason Carter!

[malaise]

18. Delish

Go Jason Carter

[Hoyt]

25. Good point. Keep Deal's ignorant face on TV right up to elections.

[K lib]

17. While i do agree Governor Deal shares blame in this( from atl resident)

I think blame should be spread around to people who were all sent home at the same time. When they should have stay at work or school to allow the trucks to retreat the roads again and so everyone would not be on the roads at the same. The roads where pretreated but everyone got stuck on the road and could not get extra relief. One question i have is why were the schools open when there is even the slightest mention of snow or cold weather they are closed?

On the positive side he will probably get the blame and it will hurt in his reelection bid. Go Jason Carter 2014!

[JCMach1]

28. Expect Jason Carter to get a big bump in the polls from this...

Deal is not even very good at the I'm in charge shtick...

[hrmjustin]

21. This is how Bloomberg's approval rating sent down.

Poor response to a snow storm.

[mstinamotorcity2]

22. Well I live in Michigan.

And I know Georgia isn't used to this but they have a Republican Governor. Republicans do not believe in Science. It is impossible for him to believe the big old scary National weather service. Especially since they don't believe in Climate Change induced weather anomalies. Feel sorry for states with these individuals in charge. I am in one.

[Holly_Hobby]

24. Al Roker was fuming about it this morning

He said there was no excuse, there were warnings 9 days ago.*

*Nevermind - I see Al was posted twice upthread.