I'm giggling....

[musicotb]

I'm from NE Ohio, so now that I live in Knoxville, TN, the weather is quite uneventful from what I'm used to.
Anyway, I'm very amused that every school here is closed due to a light dusting of snow... it's the big story on the news and there's panic in the air. Residents rushed the supermarkets last night for their bread and milk (not kidding - it was on the news). And I'm not joking about a dusting... you can still see the grass through the snow... oh, well. I hope everyone's at least not driving erratically...

 

[Pooh67_68]

Heck here in Pa. if they even mention snow, people rush out for milk, and bread and sometimes we don't get the snow they were calling for.

 

[MeMom]

I suspected that Northeners laughed at Southern panic over half-inch snowstorms! The rush for milk and bread at the mention of snow is pretty humorous, even to me, and I've lived most of my life in Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. It will be a very sad day at our school today, because we are only one of about three counties in Middle TN that WILL be going to school. They did the snow dance yesterday, and they were convinced it was going to work, but the snow sort of danced right over the top of us and got all the counties around us.

 

[Cantw8]

Heck here in Pa. if they even mention snow, people rush out for milk, and bread and sometimes we don't get the snow they were calling for.

Don't forget the fights in Home Depot over the last shovel or bag of salt

 

[TheGoofster]

When I lived in SC, this would occassionaly happen. In fact one time they predicted a possibility of snow, so of course they closed down all the schools for the next day. The next day comes and it brings a bright and sunny 75 degrees with it.

I remember growing up in MA. that unless it snowed a good 8 - 10 inches a couple of hours before school was supposed to open, we still went. If it snowed too early (like the night before), all the roads would be plowed and salted, leaving no reason not to open the schools.

 

[pennst8r]

I grew up (and I'm back in ) PA, lived in Boston, MA and Durham,NC....add me to the list of gigglers!

The only bad part, is the people in NC would be so excited over the 1/2 inch but didn't have tires for it or experience driving in it----they'd be all over the road and ditches on the side of the road. It really was worth it to stay home.

thegoofster---did you ever have to dig your car out after the snowplows went by in MA??? That was funny--you'd have to poke thru the snow to see the color of the car to make sure you were digging out the right one....then look out if you took the dug out parking space that someone else spent the day shovelling!

 

[NMAmy]

Last time we were at WDW, the temp went down to freezing--it was exactly 32 degrees that morning. DD and I were giggling because the weathermen were in panic mode and warning everyone very seriously to leave early so they'd have time to scrape their windshields!

 

[Barb D]

In all fairness, northerners (and northern cities) have both the infrastructure and the experience to deal with snow, and southerners don't. And shouldn't. It would be a foolish waste of money for a southern city to have all the preparations and equipment in place that it may or may not ever need, where a northern city knows it will need it.

 

[TheGoofster]

thegoofster---did you ever have to dig your car out after the snowplows went by in MA??? That was funny--you'd have to poke thru the snow to see the color of the car to make sure you were digging out the right one....then look out if you took the dug out parking space that someone else spent the day shovelling!

Been there, done that! Another problem was that we could never convince the snow plows to plow our driveway. So instead they would come by and plow just the road, and end up plowing a whole bunch of extra snow into our driveway. We weren't one of the lucky ones to have a snow blower so my brother and I had to shovel all of the snow (plus the extra gift from the plows) ourselves.
That, at least, was one good thing about SC - no snow plows or lots of shoveling to worry about.

 

[java]

Once driving back from Disney it had "snowed" in South Carolina- and they DID NOT PLOW I 95!!!!! They just sort of closed down the state- We stopped at a gas station and they said "state of emergency"(there was not even an inch on the ground!!!)They lost power in that entire area- we had to drive to NC to just find a hotel for the night. Where we are now it has to be at least a foot or school is open! Really the only chance that it'll be closed is if it is snowing when they are suppose to go to school- and there is a chance that they would get stuck at school(the teachers don't want that )

 

[amy4bruce]

I'm from NE Ohio, so now that I live in Knoxville, TN, the weather is quite uneventful from what I'm used to.
Anyway, I'm very amused that every school here is closed due to a light dusting of snow... it's the big story on the news and there's panic in the air. Residents rushed the supermarkets last night for their bread and milk (not kidding - it was on the news). And I'm not joking about a dusting... you can still see the grass through the snow... oh, well. I hope everyone's at least not driving erratically...

Years ago, I went to school in Knoxville. (I was from New York.) A friend from Philadelphia had a clock radio, and one day woke up to "Knoxville has had its first blizzard of the season." He looked out the window and saw exactly what you described. You could blow the snow away.