crazy southerners

[celstu1]

Originally Posted by Maximo

Schools in Virginia close whenever snow is predicted. I loved it as a kid.

Schools up here were like that for awhile too! Which is weird because a foot of snow here hardly stops anything. Work is still open, stores open as normal, roads are plowed a dozen times by 6am, it's business as usual with 1 foot snow storms. Last year schools would announce closings when the weathermen predicted snow as well, since we only got 1 storm in late Oct last year and then did not get a drop of snow at all the rest of winter, it was really weird they were doing that. The only thing I could think of is, they did not use their allotted snow days so they had to get some days off so the kids didn't get out of school in May. This year though, they are being different and last week we got about 4 inches of snow and school was open. I can't say we are getting much snow this year though either. we've had only 2 storms that brought snow, one about 7 inches and one about 4 inches, and thats it. There is about a 3 inch layer left on the lawns now and with temps being in the negatives, its not going anywhere!

[MyDearSam]

I waited to go into work until the crazies were in. The thermometer says 33F. I just went to load up the car, walked out on the front porch, and promptly landed on my keester on the 1/4 inch of ice on the steps.

Guess I get to stay home a little longer and play with Sam! If I didn't have to run payroll today, I'd be back in my pajamas! Just not worth it to take a 2 year old out on icy streets.

Good thing it's supposed to go up around 40F this afternoon. I still have to make the 3 hour round trip to get my car, and get the oldest to church for a lock-in tonight.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by Maximo

Schools in Virginia close whenever snow is predicted. I loved it as a kid.

so true.. I am from Bristol the Virginia side. It is where Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina meet.... love the mountain roads when it snows. School could be closed a week because they can't get the school buses up and down the mountain roads safety

[Marhcarter]

Originally Posted by MyDearSam

I waited to go into work until the crazies were in. The thermometer says 33F. I just went to load up the car, walked out on the front porch, and promptly landed on my keester on the 1/4 inch of ice on the steps.

Guess I get to stay home a little longer and play with Sam! If I didn't have to run payroll today, I'd be back in my pajamas! Just not worth it to take a 2 year old out on icy streets.

Good thing it's supposed to go up around 40F this afternoon. I still have to make the 3 hour round trip to get my car, and get the oldest to church for a lock-in tonight.

Yeah, I take back some of the stuff I said (not all...they still close schools when they shouldn't), but I just let Huey out on the deck and just about busted my keister, too. The drizzly rain has turned to that wintery mix that was predicted and even though the temp is still 33, it is getting icy.

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by MyDearSam

Middle Tennessee drivers tend to lose their minds when it does nothing more than rain. When the temperature drops near freezing? Fuhgeddaboutit! The grocery stores empty and things lock down like Armageddon is coming. So for me, it's not the road conditions that bother me. It's the maniacs out on the roads that do! They just don't seem to grasp the concept of slow down and don't slam on the brakes when it's wet/slick.

AMEN!! Drivers here in East Tennessee are the same!!

Originally Posted by MyDearSam

I waited to go into work until the crazies were in. The thermometer says 33F. I just went to load up the car, walked out on the front porch, and promptly landed on my keester on the 1/4 inch of ice on the steps.

Guess I get to stay home a little longer and play with Sam! If I didn't have to run payroll today, I'd be back in my pajamas! Just not worth it to take a 2 year old out on icy streets.

Good thing it's supposed to go up around 40F this afternoon. I still have to make the 3 hour round trip to get my car, and get the oldest to church for a lock-in tonight.

I did the same thing this morning going out my back door Thank goodness the bank where I work decided to close (3rd time in the 19 years I have worked there) I can handle snow and driving in it...Ice is scary and I don't even attempt it.

Originally Posted by Lil Sis

so true.. I am from Bristol the Virginia side. It is where Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina meet.... love the mountain roads when it snows. School could be closed a week because they can't get the school buses up and down the mountain roads safety

90% of our county is back mountain roads..our schools have no choice but to close in bad weather.

[GuinnessStout]

Umm yea I have only seen snow on TV, movies and pictures never in person haha

[MyDearSam]

Umm....Alisha?

[celstu1]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Umm yea I have only seen snow on TV, movies and pictures never in person haha

Really??? wow! Any desire to see it or feel it, walk in it or ski or anything?

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by celstu1

Really??? wow! Any desire to see it or feel it, walk in it or ski or anything?

Hmm yes... I was suppose to go to my Tenn house when it snowed last year but something came up and I could not make it.... Then I was suppose to go Philly next month but my friend was in a car wreck so now we are going in July.

I really do not think I would be able to handle it because even when it gets our version of cold in Fl I have a very hard time walking from all the pins and screws in my legs and arthritis.

[celstu1]

yeah I can't imagine that pain... many years ago I fell down cement stairs and the skin on my shin was gone, you could see the bone and feel the chips on it down my shin. Well to this day when its this cold out, it aches like it's bruised, and sometimes if I stand up for too long it throbs. Its so weird! I don't have a scar or mark on me either. I don't scar at all. People think its so odd when I tell them what happened and what my leg looked like for a couple years and now there is nothing there at all!

[SophieKatesMom]

Reporting in from North Fulton County (yes the same couny as Atlanta). We have rain, no ice just rain.

I never get a snow day since I work from home and my commute is walking across the hall upstairs (if I have ice on m commute there is a huge problem).

Being from Michigan and living in Georgia for the last 15 years I have learned when it snows or we have ice stay home. The people are not prepared for the driving, we do not have equipment to remove the ice and besides any place I need to go is probably closed.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by jadabug

AMEN!! Drivers here in East Tennessee are the same!!



I did the same thing this morning going out my back door Thank goodness the bank where I work decided to close (3rd time in the 19 years I have worked there) I can handle snow and driving in it...Ice is scary and I don't even attempt it.



90% of our county is back mountain roads..our schools have no choice but to close in bad weather.

yelp.... we are mountain girls

[jadabug]

I hate the ice, snow I can handle. It must be really bad on the roads. We subscribe to text alerts for weather and news from a news station out of Knoxville Tn. There was a terrible accident with some first responders, a firetruck turned over and down an embankment onto a Tn State Trooper car. The trooper died from his injuries.
State trooper dies in ice-related wreck

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by jadabug

I hate the ice, snow I can handle. It must be really bad on the roads. We subscribe to text alerts for weather and news from a news station out of Knoxville Tn. There was a terrible accident with some first responders, a firetruck turned over and down an embankment onto a Tn State Trooper car. The trooper died from his injuries.
State trooper dies in ice-related wreck

I am thankful that officials called off school last night as a precaution...this could have been a bus full of school children. Better safe than sorry IMO

[GeorgiesMomma]

Originally Posted by Maximo

Schools in Virginia close whenever snow is predicted. I loved it as a kid.

The kids got out 2 hours early today because it's "suppose" to snow.....so far nothing.

When I was a senior in high school we got off for 2 weeks. We actually did have a big snowstorm. I loved sleeping in everyday and didn't have to make up the days since I was graduating