and preparations came early. people stayed off the roads. salt trucks had room to roll. a big big difference many our gary tuchman has been out and about. he joins us now. you're on the streets of downtown atlanta. looks pretty good there right now. >> much different situation, anderson, than two weeks ago. we do have a situation where there are 150,000 homes without power here in georgia. a lot of people call atlanta the city of trees because it's so green. countless trees have been destroyed, power lines down. but people have taken this storm much more seriously. and the down time connector which is the merger of interstate 75 and 85 which goes through downtown atlanta, one of the busiest highways in the united states, almost completely empty today. roads throughout the city almost completely empty. it reminded me of hurricane katrina just before it came and all the streets in new orleans being empty. and gulfport, mississippi and biloxi, mississippi being empty. people took it very seriously. it really worked. when politicians and parents and everyone in between take it seriously and don't send their kids to school, don't go to work when they know lots of snow is coming in place they don't get much of it things work.