Nine hours after the Nationwide Climate Service issued a three a.m. major wintry weather storm warning for the large Atlanta metro space on Tuesday, Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed were at a champagne awards brunch, and the lights had been off on the Georgia Emergency Administration Middle. The misery used to be whole and complete, and Atlanta became a national laughingstock, the storm response a “snowball to the face of metro Atlanta’s picture,” as the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s J. Scott Trubey wrote.