As someone who was born and raised in the south, I gotta say: That's pretty pitiful, even by Southern standards. :lmao:
But then, we've called school off before because the weather forecasters are PREDICTING snow. Those are never, EVER the times it actually snows. The actual "real" amounts of snow happen when, like yesterday, they tell us it's absolutely, positively, completely going around us. So off the kids go to school, nobody treats the roads, and WHAM. Then everyone panics and heads for home. It took several of my friends over an hour to drive home, when it normally takes them about 20 minutes. At that was before it got really "bad." We're just not equipped to deal with it. We don't have the equipment, the manpower, nor the mindset to handle cold and snow.
But, as a born-and-raised Southerner, I also gotta say: It is one of my goals in life to never, ever live in a place where they DO have the equipment, manpower and mindset to deal with cold and snow all winter long. I would kill myself before we even made it to December.