A friend of mine lives in SC. The schools are closed for having 2 whopping inches of snow on the ground. Here is a pic from her. She just moved down there not long ago from Wisconsin, so she is flabbergasted at how the schools close over the slightest bit of snow. Want to see a pic from Wisconsin??? "Ya'll" need to grow a pair. :lol:
Hee hee, it's cause a lot of the 'good old boys' have trucks with 4 wheel drive. Now anyone with any common sense knows all that means is that if you lose grip you lose it with all 4 tires. But they think it makes them Superman. Seriously NO ONE down here knows how to drive in the stuff and it makes it VERY dangerous. The only reason I cancelled the appointment we had is because I had to cross two bridges and the temperature is steadily dropping. You should have seen the run on milk and bread at the store last night....:lol: Peggy
ROFL!!!! I say that with love. LOL I just don't get it. Really...it's not that dangerous. Now, 1 foot is dangerous, but 2 inches??? Ugh! I know you guys aren't use to it, but I am shocked at how easily a whole town will shut down over a few flurries. :lol: Look at the first pic...there is NOTHING on the road! lol Are you all afraid of the water from the melted snow??? What do you do when it rains then? ROFL! We have yet to buy a truck or any vehicle with 4 wheel drive too...I have the same minivan as my friend in SC. Hehe. Ok, I'm sorry...I'm not picking on you. Ok, I lied, yes I am. LOL
Jen, I moved here to the southern state and I don't get it either, I guess it's because they don't have the snow moving trucks, or salt like you all. I don't know maybe they thought or were told by the wonderful weather man the temps. were going to drop and the roads are wet will turn into ice and with no salt trucks can be bad for them. I dunno know. That is my thought... Yes, they are scared to drive in it, they haven't driven it like you or I have for years so it is very scarey for them.... I think they were just being safe.. which is for the best.
Well, I can't speak for all Southerners, but in Texas, if you drop an ice cube on the ground, the whole state shuts down. I know our problem here in Texas is that we very, very rarely just have snow. We always have ice along with it. We don't have the necessary stuff to de-ice the roads, and the people who drive on it really don't know how. Of course, I could point out that many Northerners tend to be super whiny when temps go anywhere near 90 degrees. Talk about needing to grow a pair! LOL
It is because it isn't something that happens often and so we all don't have the road clearing and de-icing equipment like you guys up north. One of my best friends lives in Bloomington, MN and calls every couple of days to tell me about the weather there. He called yesterday and said you all were having a heat wave because the temp was up to 17! See if we get snow or ice here in Texas everything comes to a stand still because we just dont have the equipment to clear the roads.
ROFL. I am ok with 90, it's the humidity that gets me. :lol: Then at that time, yes I need to grow a pair. I hate humidity!
Jen, I joke that I'd rather 3 months of summer heat and humidity down here than 6 mo of NY winters! They actually closed the schools here effective 5 pm yesterday as they had no clue what the weather would actually do. I'm going to try to do pix in another thread. We've been getting flurries all day but the snow on the ground was gone by noon.
Does someone wanna borrow a four wheel drive? We've got 6 of em'! :lol: How do they manage with all that snow?:lol:
Lol...it IS sad really. Our schools were closed last week because it was too cold. Wasn't even below Zero. They were closed today because of less of an inch...but there was ice under it. But in defense of the snow issue...We've lived here in TN most of our lives, but did live in MN for 18 months. The snow up there is different. And it's flat..lol. You can drive on snow pack up there all winter without a problem. The snow here is SLICK, and we have lots of hills. They usually end up closing schools because the buses cannot run on the slippery, unsalted, hill country back roads without ending up in a ditch.
Here is a very good reason for even all you Yankees to stay off our roads when it snows. A friend of mine from the northern mid-west told me this one...lol! "Why are all of you so scared of the snow?" Then 15 min. later once she reached my house. "We are not going anywhere, these idiots do not know how to drive!" Of course this was about 12 or 13 years ago as it has not snowed here since...lol!
Ahhh...man...give me Phoenix any day of the week! We got about 6 inches the other day...I am reminded just how much I HATE SNOW! I like to watch it, I think it's pretty, I absolutely HATE to have to go anywhere in it!
We roll up the sidewalks when the weatherman even hints at snow or ice. Well maybe we aren't that bad, but we really are crippled by the least amount of slick roads. We don't have a lot of trucks to salt or scrape the streets here. The high schools are out in the middle of the country and half of the county's kids go to each of the two high schools. There are many country roads for the buses to travel. Yesterday we didn't see a single flake, but our son's adult day program was delayed for two hours because there was a chance of flurries. We don't see lots of bad weather, but when we do it gets messy in a hurry.
Hey you guys I live in SC. We missed the snow. I think seriously we shut down because we don't see that much snow and people go nuts. Our snow is a wet mess. Some people down here don't know how to drive let alone drive in snow. You can have the humidity we have down here. I HATE it!!!! I don't like the hot, dry summers. I had rather have snow. That is just me.
Actually, there are several factors involved: #1 lack of proper equipment. Hard for them to spend tax dollars on a bunch of equipment only gonna use once every few years. Then, when things hit, they can't properly do ALL roads. #2 Different atmospheric conditions. The snow to fall in the south is usually WET...hence most precipitation is in an ICE form. #3 South doesn't usually have cold hard enough or long enough to freeze the ground. So, cold snow falls, melts. Night temps drop and ice forms. #4 Northerners think "We drive in worse than this" then proceed to go and drive in it, not realizing the factor is ICE not snow. About 4 years ago, up in Raleigh, an ice storm started around noon-ish..... The county closed schools early. Commuters left work early. (OVERLOAD of vehicles) Then the roads became a mess in no time and what happened was a 20 minute commute took people 6-8 HOURS!!! Wrecks, snowplows stuck in traffic, commuters running out of gas, etc. Some buses were unable to continue their routes and returned to the schools with the kids. Those kids had to spend the night at the school. Just a bit of info.......from a southerner.
