In the past month, the interstates of Georgia seem to have gone south (no pun intended). From arson to falling foam, the troubles seems to be never-ending. What is happening -- is there a planet out of line that's causing all of this? Who knows, but it needs to come to an end.
A couple of weeks ago during a tutoring session, the headline "I-85 bridge collapses after fire" appeared on the screen of my teacher's phone. A miracle of its own, no one was hurt, but how does a bridge just collapse? Celebrating 4/20 a little too early, a few men who were homeless and intoxicated at the time set the bridge on fire. The huge, black smoke covering the area could not be contained. Eventually, the bridge collapsed, and thus began the apocalypse. The "Hapocalypse", or highway apocalypse.
Later there was another bridge collapse near some train tracks. Although no one knows its cause, we do know that the collapse shut down trains running through the area for about a week.
Then, a week ago a truck filled with hundreds of Braves Tomahawks tumbled over onto Cobb County Highway, causing delays. If that’s not a secret metaphor for how these past few weeks have been going, I’m not quite sure what is.
Motorists on their daily commute are raging so much that 99.7, “The Bert Show”, has a segment in which motorists can call and complain about another driver who did something stupid or unsafe on the road.
I call this the "Hapocalypse" because the reactions seem to be very familiar to those of the infamous 2014 "Snowpocalypse". What’s in our future? The highway won’t be finished until June 15th, so until then you might want to stay out of Atlanta for summer adventures.



















