A freak winter storm in the South (2014)

[Jim Eshelman]

Feb 01, 2014

An ‘Out of Ordinary’ event took place in a small band area of the South on Jan 28th 2014. A freak unpredicted winter storm hit with the worst happening for a mass interstate traffic transit area between Birmingham Alabama and Atlanta Georgia. The worst effect of this winter storm created massive traffic gridlock in and between these two metro areas with thousands of motorist stranded in their cars overnight with single digits freezing temps. Gridlock was so bad, thousands of motorists abandon their vehicles walking miles to hotels and there were no hotel rooms to be found. The motorists are furious with the officials of these two Metro areas and there is much talk of many law suits being filed pertaining to different issues. The net effect of this storm caused thousands of angry motorists.

If you calculate the Jan 28th CapQ’s for these two metro areas you will notice an accented Mars in B’ham & Atlanta, with CapQ Mars partile conjunct CapQ Asc for both B’ham & Atlanta. The worst gridlock problems were created in Atlanta which made National News, and T. Mars was also partile conjunct Atlanta’s Jan 28th CapQ East Point.

[Jim Eshelman]

A wonderful example!

If you calculate the Jan 28th CapQ’s for these two metro areas you will notice an accented Mars in B’ham & Atlanta, with CapQ Mars partile conjunct CapQ Asc for both B’ham & Atlanta. The worst gridlock problems were created in Atlanta which made National News, and T. Mars was also partile conjunct Atlanta’s Jan 28th CapQ East Point.[/quote]
Halfway between Atlanta and Birmingham is 33N38, 85W36. I don't know when this hit its peak, but considering the "stranded overnight" I'm going to use 11 PM as a sample time. For that halfway point, at that sample time, we get:

CapQ Ascendant 22°33' Virgo
Capsolar Mars 22°35' Virgo

CapQ MC 24°12' Gemini
CapQ Venus 24°02' Sagittarius

(I've known of a few babies conceived when people in cold country were stuck in a car in extreme cold, and the only way to keep warm was skin-to-skin body contact <g>.)

The Cansolar for that exact spot halfway between has MC 10°14' Aquarius, Neptune 10°02' Aquarius, but there were no hits on the CanQ or Cansolar angles.

The Caplunar for that location had Saturn 4° above the Ascendant and Neptune 1° from the IC. The Liblunar was more "Surprise!" in its message, having Uranus 1° from the IC.

[Jim Eshelman]

Jim wrote:

Halfway between Atlanta and Birmingham is 33N38, 85W36. I don't know when this hit its peak, but considering the "stranded overnight" I'm going to use 11 PM as a sample time.

Jim, both Atlanta & Birmingham city officials/companies let everyone go home about noon. Within one hour it was complete gridlock on ALL highways in the metro areas. I suspect around 3:00 PM the motorists suspected they may not get to their final destinations by nightfall, and at nightfall they started to suspect they may have to spend the night in their cars. Then late in the evening they then knew they were totally screwed. So, I think your 11:00 PM was the peak of their anger for your calculated near exact Mars hits. Interstate 20 from B’ham to Atlanta was impassable, stranding thousands of long distance travellers, both east & west bound. Many school children/kids had to spend the nights in their school rooms, some for two nights. There was panic buying of heating gases/oils across the northern/eastern/southern nation because of panic demand with temps 30-40 below normal. In ALL retail outlets along this southern band of freak winter weather, there was no electric space heaters to be found because of the people who ran out of heating gases/oils for their homes. The Gov of Alabama declared a State of Emergency because of price gouging by heating suppliers. There were thousands of angry residents as well as motorists. Daily price chart of Natural Gas with following link: (hope the worst is over with seasonal temps back to normal across the nation).

http://www.barchart.com/charts/futures/NGH14