Snow

By - April 22, 2013

It rarely snows in the South.  That said, those unlikely days when it does are when I most can't stand to live here.

Okay, so maybe it's not living in the South that I hate...maybe it's the idiots who surround me. Let me backtrack, because I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Inevitably, there will be one day a year when it snows, and by God, you had better be ready to watch people hunker down like the President has just come on TV to announce we're being attacked by martians. Cases of bottled water fly off the shelves faster than you can say, "Overreact." (See picture below for example of bottled water going bye-bye during one of these weather emergencies.) Canned foods are stocked as well as milk and bread. (Side note: Frosty white precipitation somehow apparently causes all bland food items to vanish and the water supply to go into jeopardy. Apparently, snow is a magician.) Schools are cancelled. (Side note: mind you, at this point, no snow has actuallyhappened. The schools and businesses were closed based on the threat of snow alone.)

Then, the snow does end up coming down (Side note: I say this because cancelled schools and flying bread are not uncommon based on threats of predicted snow that never become reality). Therefore, when it happens, all hell breaks loose. The city shuts down, and the streets are quiet. No one will move from their homes until it is over; we must all bolster our courage and pray for daylight.

By the way, it is typically two inches at most.

So, the next time you happen to notice on weather.com that there is wintery weather down in the south, send care packages...we're talking SERIOUS blizzard here. Armageddon.

Then, go shovel snow from your driveway and laugh at us.

Does it snow a lot where you live?