crazy southerners
 

I have lived in Georgia all my life, but I still do not understand these people. The weather forecast is for temps in the 20's in the morning with "wintery mix" predicted. All the schools have already announced closings and day shifters are staying overnight at the hospital where I work in case they can't get back in the morning. Wintery mix. Not blizzard. :snowflake:

Where I grew up in Minnesota the rule was the superintendent would call school off when he couldn't see the flag pole outside his window because of snow..we hated it...the flag pole was like a foot away from the window and very rarely was it so bad he couldn't see it :)

A wintery mix is a blizzard to the people in the South. I also usually involves ICE. We dont really get fluffy snow that much in the South,just LOTS of ice. so think rain and ice.

I lived/still work in Buffalo NY for my whole life, near Canada and Niagara Falls, walking distance....We've had blizzards where we had to go upstairs to get out the attic window to get out of the house cuz the snow was too high....that's pretty much when they close anything here!!! lol

OMG lynzy!!! Who are the "crazy ones", as another poster called us??? As I would be climbing out the attic window because the snow was essentially burying the entire house, THIS "crazy Southerner" would be realizing there was NOTHING there that was THAT important to me that I was staying!!!!

In case they are wrong and the wintry mix is plain black ice or 6" of snow, they are prepared. We had that in our forecast a while back and got lots of sleet, then snow for a day and nobody was prepared, lots of wrecks as everyone was out and about, people couldn't get anywhere or get kids and stuff. Schools let out early but parents were hours getting to them so now they just seem to try to avoid all of that and close.

I'm like Yorkiemom1, I like living where it's warmer. The livin' in easy in the South and Southwest and even when it is broiling in the summer, we just go from one air-conditioned place to another in air-conditioned cars and it's all good because it doesn't shut things down, you can still go shopping, take the dogs out in the shade, run errands and go everywhere. Would not want to work out in that hot sun all day but if you don't have that kind of job, the summers are made up for by mostly reasonable weather the rest of the year.

My sister's friend who lives in Canada says it is so cold there in the winter, they can't bury people who die in the middle of winter until the Spring thaw. I had never heard anything like that and still wonder if it is true.

We have a lot or mountainous areas that do get snow when we don't down in the valley. It just cracks me up that they close schools the day before without even seeing what it is gonna do. I am a crazy southerner, born and bred less than 100miles from where I live now. No one can drive on ice and we don't have salt trucks here, so I understand people staying over at work...in fact, it is encouraged. I just remember as a kid that school closings werent announced until about 6am. Now they close school if it rains too hard, snow flurries are predicted or if the temp drops to 20. I just find it amusing.

Its still true Jeanie...when people up here pass away if the ground is frozen we will have a burial memorial in the spring.

Yes it is true and same as here in Buffalo, my Grampa died in December and it was a bad winter so they had us all go in to the mausoleum instead of graveside and we had to leave Gramps there, wish I didn't go....they buried him when they could.

lmao...you are so funny! I made a ton of money during that storm....serving Coffee that I was giving for free to stranded folks on the thruway which was close by...I did however; lose a boot in that darn storm! Honestly, we've had some doozy storms and are often the but of jokes on latenight shows but we've had a few great winters the last few years and last year only one real bout of snow, I never broke out my gloves last year! This year it seems were back to normal...snow, cold, snow, cold....

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Oh yes........it is true!! My fathers family was all from Wisconsin, and several of the brothers went back to the family cemetary when they died....but they couldnt be returned until late spring / summer, because they had to wait for the ground to thaw before they could dig the graves! Unbelieveable!!! Our temp today is forcasted to be 76*......it is 64* right now.....NICE!!

That is so funny! I love my crazy southern friends.

I guess technically, being from Kentucky, I am kind of southern, but not like my friends in North and South Carolina that drink sweet tea and say y'all. :D

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.

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

And North Georgia...I'm sure the ER will be busy today with people running off the road; And heaven forbid you need milk or bread in the next 2 days. I'm sure the stores have been emptied!
I feel sorry for the parents who need to work but are now stuck at home watching their children while it sprinkles rain and the temp is above freezing (just barely, but still above) One of my coworkers noticed this morning that none of the private schools were on the list of closings, just the public ones. Guess you get what you pay for...