“Historic”, “Catastrophic” Winter Storm Paralyzes Atlanta As Pax Creeps Up East Coast !

• “Historic”, “Catastrophic” Winter Storm Paralyzes Atlanta As Pax Creeps Up East Coast! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  Not a week seems to pass without yet another “historic” winter storm assuring that virtually all winter economic data so far in 2014 can be ignored… if it is bad that is – if the data is good, it’s thanks to the “recovery” which however is not strong enough for the Fed to end its “unconventional” policy. The latest one – Pax. Weather.com’s description of what is about to be unleashed on Atlanta and the entire Eastern Seaboard is nothing short of a review of the movie The Day After Tomorrow: “Potentially “catastrophic” Winter Storm Pax began unfolding before dawn Wednesday in the Atlanta area as temperatures dropped below freezing and sleet and freezing rain began to fall.”
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  The National Weather Service’s warning was not exactly cheery: “Let’s just start by saying this winter storm may be of historic proportions for the area,” the agency said in a forecast analysis. “We’re looking at significant snowfall totals north and significant, crippling ice totals, especially along the Interstate 20 corridor.” Eli Jacks, a meteorologist with National Weather Service, said forecasters use words such as “catastrophic” sparingly. Not in this case.
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  “Sometimes we want to tell them, ‘Hey, listen, this warning is different. This is really extremely dangerous, and it doesn’t happen very often,'” Jacks said.
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  The service’s memo early Wednesday called the storm “an event of historical proportions.”
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  It continues: “Catastrophic … crippling … paralyzing … choose your adjective.”
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