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.
All in how you see it. I hate winter in some ways. Heating, a big priority. snowblowers, got a plow truck and we always keep a couple four wheel drives. It is winter. Lose power a lot where I am, so I have generators. Scraping the ice, shoveling snow. Freezing your azz off when its below zero and you go outside. We have our "winter wear" and flannel sheets etc.
walking around, ten inches or more of snow. Its like survival time. Driving on ice, or where I am, snow since they don't plow the roads right away. Dark days, cloudy, short days. Dreariness except the occasional ice storm. Car don't start on occasion. Working on cars, house, anything sucks unless you are inside doing it.
But here is the thing, Ive lived all over the u.s., spent time all over the u.s. not just the eastern seaboard.
And when I was in texas, I could have sworn I saw a freakn cockroach. I didn't really know exactly what it was.
And in Georgia, I had this great big nice brick home I stayed in, fireplaces. nice place. not mine but I stayed there since it was the owners second property briefly. And I woke up one day, thinking how beautiful Georgia was from the previous day. not real hot, you know, it was winter in Georgia then. I wake up, turn on the kitchen light, and everywhere, scattering , freakn COCKROACHES!!!!
And I just totally HATE, JUST HATE, ALL BUGS. And humidity (go west). But mostly BUGS!!!
And yes it is, but its much better without all of the college students!
