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Georgia braces for 2nd snowstorm in 2 weeks   ATLANTA (AP) --
When snow fell on Atlanta two weeks ago, downtown streets of the
South's business hub were jammed with unmoving cars, highway
motorists slept overnight in vehicles or abandoned them where
they sat, and students were forced to camp out in school
gymnasiums when roads turned too treacherous for buses to
navigate.  Things promised to be different Tuesday, when another
round of rain, sleet and freezing rain was expected to begin
walloping the area.  That's not necessarily because city and
state officials are going to be better prepared -- although they
promised they would be -- but because many people aren't going
to take a chance that they will get trapped again.  "Basically,
everyone from the office is going to be working from home" on
Tuesday, said Dakota Herrera as he left a car park in downtown
Atlanta to go to his office Monday.  Atlanta has a long and
painful history of being ill-equipped