“Atlanta is home to the world’s busiest airport. To CNN and the Weather Channel. The headquarters of Home Depot and Coca-Cola. The city hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics. Three major professional sports teams call Atlanta home.

But the city’s solid rep is going south, thanks to Tuesday’s “rush hour from hell.”

There’s no easy answer for who’s to blame. Rather, it was a perfect storm — pun intended — of factors that created the commute of nightmares.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said the region was caught off guard by weather predictions. During a Tuesday night briefing, the governor called the weather event “an unexpected storm” that hit the metro area. Citing forecasts, he said most of the effects of the storm would be south of the city.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Joe Sterling and Sarah Aarthun / CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/us/atlanta-traffic-hell-why/

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