I get where you guys are coming from. Seriously. As I said, I'm from northern Montana. But you have to consider that Atlanta, which rarely gets snow that sticks (we did get some last year, too, and it caused a big mess) has NO equipment to deal with sticking snow in any quantity.
We have no salt trucks, we have no snow plows, and we have a ton of people who have never seen snow in their life or very little of it. (Aka, a lot of people who have never DRIVEN on snow or ice).
It's just a bad mix.