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01-24-2013, 07:16 PM | #1 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| 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.
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01-24-2013, 07:20 PM | #2 |
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| 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
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01-24-2013, 07:23 PM | #3 |
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| 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. |
01-24-2013, 07:25 PM | #4 |
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| 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
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01-24-2013, 08:37 PM | #5 | |
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01-24-2013, 08:57 PM | #6 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| 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.
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01-24-2013, 09:10 PM | #7 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| 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.
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01-24-2013, 09:11 PM | #8 | |
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01-24-2013, 09:18 PM | #9 | |
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01-24-2013, 09:22 PM | #10 | |
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01-25-2013, 02:09 AM | #11 | |
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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!! | |
01-25-2013, 03:06 AM | #12 | |
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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.
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01-25-2013, 05:26 AM | #13 |
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| 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.
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01-25-2013, 05:34 AM | #14 |
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| Schools in Virginia close whenever snow is predicted. I loved it as a kid.
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01-25-2013, 05:46 AM | #15 | |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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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...
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