RUN FOR IT! It is gonna snow in North Carolina, stay inside.

[sch00lteacher]

Motorists are warned to expect slippery highways from the rush hour
Wednesday into Thursday.

"The number of accidents double and sometimes triple in snowy weather,"
said South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Bryan McDougald.


First you have to run to the store and buy all the milk and white bread you can get your hands on. The shelves will be empty, count on it.

Second stay home. There will be about a million accidents tomorrow if it really does snow. Damn people can't slow down for shit.

Having lived all over the world, and USA, I am amazed at how poorly the south handles snow. I mean a city the size of Charlotte will have like two pick up trucks with some slag to spread around. Cause it only snows once or twice a year at the most...

Hell I went to school in Northern Maine. We never got a snow day. It could snow ten feet, and we'd be at school the next day. Same with Upstate New York when I taught there.

But come south, and if they see even one flake fall from the sky...

 

[Guest]

eep-double post...sorry!

 

[Guest]

After living through NJ winters, and seeing the Raleigh area deal with 23 inches last winter, I asked my brother ( who works for the NCDOT) why it is that this state deals so poorly with snow.

It's simple. Due the fact that little snow falls during the winters, the lack of money appropiations makes it difficult .

In NJ, everyone in our neighborhood had plows attached to the bumpers of their trucks. Roads are plowed quickly. The DOT's in this area don't have such help. My brother was out plowing 264 and 95 before the local roads were even touched.

Bundle up, kiddies. A storm's a'brewing!

 

[SimplySouthern]

I am so excited!!

I suppose I'm a kid at heart, but I LOVE it when it snows here!

I was one of the many that ventured out to the grocery store to buy not milk and bread -- but vanilla and the makings for chili.

The vanilla was so I can make snowcreme.

Special prize to the first person who can tell me what that is and how it's made!!

If no one hears from me for a few days, it's cause I'm outside sledding.

Miles....let me know you are OK. Marxist, you too. Bad weather there I hear!

 

[Mtn Rebel]

Bad Weather

Well i don't know about those folks in the Carolina's but i live on top of the mountains in Va. just 2 hrs north of Charlotte and 3 hrs north of Raleigh. BUt i have had to deal with winter storms before last yr we had 6' drifts in our backyard nothing unusal here.

I even got pictures of snowdrifts when i was younger and i was standing on them they were so tall the tops of the power line poles could just be seen.

So while some folks may freak out some don't just depends on where you grew up at.

 

[batter]

SimplySouthern

if you like snow, come on up here to Canada.

out of curiousity, how much snow do they get in the Carolinas?

 

[morninggirl5]

Motorists are warned to expect slippery highways from the rush hour
Wednesday into Thursday.

"The number of accidents double and sometimes triple in snowy weather,"
said South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Bryan McDougald.


First you have to run to the store and buy all the milk and white bread you can get your hands on. The shelves will be empty, count on it.

Second stay home. There will be about a million accidents tomorrow if it really does snow. Damn people can't slow down for shit.

Having lived all over the world, and USA, I am amazed at how poorly the south handles snow. I mean a city the size of Charlotte will have like two pick up trucks with some slag to spread around. Cause it only snows once or twice a year at the most...

Hell I went to school in Northern Maine. We never got a snow day. It could snow ten feet, and we'd be at school the next day. Same with Upstate New York when I taught there.

But come south, and if they see even one flake fall from the sky...

It's already falling here (Atlanta area) Sch00lteacher. What do you mean milk and white bread. The obligatory grocery list for Southerners in the even that snow is in the forecast is as follows: milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper, laundry detergent, bottled water.

The safest thing to do in cases like this is to remain inside and watch the news reports highlighting the accidents caused by idiots that "think" they know how to drive in the snow.

 

[Guest]

It's all about experience...

For example: North Carolinians, unfortunately and fortunately, have the
"know how" manual on hurricanes.
A couple of years back, when a hurricane ( sorry, the name has slipped my mind), flooded and destroyed much of eastern NC, the storm slid up the eastern seaboard. I was living in NJ, at the time, and my in-laws, along with most of the NJ folks, were freaking out. He didn't grow up with tornado and hurricane drills.
Chalk it up to experience. The south has tornados and hurricanes. The north has snow.
In any case, enjoy the white stuff.
And, be careful.

 

[SimplySouthern]

Re: SimplySouthern

if you like snow, come on up here to Canada.

out of curiousity, how much snow do they get in the Carolinas?

If you intend to run around only partially dressed as in your AV -- I'm on my way to Canada ASAP!!

It depends where in the state you live as to how much snow we get. I live at the foothills of the Appalachain Mountains, so we see snow about 6-10 times a year. Generally, it snows about 5 inches at a time.

Now about you and me naked in Canada......

 

[SimplySouthern]

Re: It's all about experience...

For example: North Carolinians, unfortunately and fortunately, have the
"know how" manual on hurricanes.
A couple of years back, when a hurricane ( sorry, the name has slipped my mind), flooded and destroyed much of eastern NC, the storm slid up the eastern seaboard. I was living in NJ, at the time, and my in-laws, along with most of the NJ folks, were freaking out. He didn't grow up with tornado and hurricane drills.
Chalk it up to experience. The south has tornados and hurricanes. The north has snow.
In any case, enjoy the white stuff.
And, be careful.

Do you mean Hurricane Hugo?

 

[Desdemona]

Re: Re: RUN FOR IT! It is gonna snow in North Carolina, stay inside.

The safest thing to do in cases like this is to remain inside and watch the news reports highlighting the accidents caused by idiots that "think" they know how to drive in the snow.

LMAO I think I'm the only southerner that refuses to go to the store at a time like this. Guess I'm just ornery.

Hey, quit talking about me like that, morninggirl5. I was just getting ready to go for a drive! I'm sure there's someplace I need to go.

If you look outside my window, you'll see small children attempting to make snowmen out of dirt and 1/2 inch of the white stuff.

 

[lovetoread]

Okay I confess,I went to the store,but not because it is snowing here.

I have been sick and heck when you need toilet paper you just need it. And just because I picked up some bread and milk and other things mean nothing I tell ya.

 

[Desdemona]

Excuses, excuses

Okay I confess,I went to the store,but not because it is snowing here.

I have been sick and heck when you need toilet paper you just need it. And just because I picked up some bread and milk and other things mean nothing I tell ya.

 

[morninggirl5]

Re: Re: Re: RUN FOR IT! It is gonna snow in North Carolina, stay inside.

LMAO I think I'm the only southerner that refuses to go to the store at a time like this. Guess I'm just ornery.

Hey, quit talking about me like that, morninggirl5. I was just getting ready to go for a drive! I'm sure there's someplace I need to go.

If you look outside my window, you'll see small children attempting to make snowmen out of dirt and 1/2 inch of the white stuff.

Maybe we should start our own sorority, Southern Women Who Refuse to go to the Store as soon as snow is mentioned.

There wasn't even a half-inch on the ground here and my neigbor's kids were already outside playing in it. It's stopped snowing for the moment here, supposed to start again later tonight.

I really like the snow. It's peaceful somehow.

 

[Desdemona]

Re: Re: Re: Re: RUN FOR IT! It is gonna snow in North Carolina, stay inside.

Maybe we should start our own sorority, Southern Women Who Refuse to go to the Store as soon as snow is mentioned.

Consider yourself duly appointed queen of the new sorority. I'll be the chauffer and chair of the membership committee.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: It's all about experience...

Do you mean Hurricane Hugo?

No, I meant Hurricane Floyd. Which I believe hit in '99.
Hugo, which didn't do much damage to NC, hit in '93, I think.

Don't quote me- I'm bad with dates.

 

[lobito]

AW MAN! That's fucking bullshit!

I want snow here in the midwest where I am! I LOVE snow, and by God, if it's gonna be this cold here, we may as well have snow to go along with it!

 

[BigDawg69]

The shopping list left out the two most important ingredients:

Pizza and BEER!

During the great blizzard of 1994 I was fortunate enough to be in the Charlotte Collesium during the ACC Tournament when the power went out. Barely made it back to my firends place with no pizza and no beer

Had to walk 1.5 mile to a store and get some! To beat it all Duke lost!

 

[Guest]

AW MAN! That's fucking bullshit!

I want snow here in the midwest where I am! I LOVE snow, and by God, if it's gonna be this cold here, we may as well have snow to go along with it!

Amen! I've been freezing my ass off for the last week. I'm all giddy at the thought of white stuff. Hehe

 

[morninggirl5]

The radio station I'm listening to just announced the following.

"Kroger Stores in the Atlanta area are sold out of bread and milk. If you still need these items, you should shop elsewhere."





ROFLMAO

 

[miles]

SS

I'm fine, but the shithooks were out in full force as soon as they heard the roads were icy. I saw several frozen bodies lying by the side of the road. Their grocery bags were ripped open, and their carcasses surrounded by loaves of white bread, jars of mayonnaise, disgusting luncheon meats, and gallons of milk.

 

[morninggirl5]

miles,

Just in case you haven't heard. Gwinnett Co schools are closed tomorrow. I thought of you when i heard the announcement.



Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!


mg

 

[lovetoread]

In the great state of SC,in the part that I claim as my own, we have at least a couple on inches. Already sirens can be heard as the idiots get out into it.

Welcome to the south.

I went to the store today and there was no bread at all. After all of my joking,I really didnt think it would happen.

 

[Chuckus]

I *just* got home from Columbia SC. I left at 3:30 PM or so.......and when I walked in the door it was 7:20 PM. It is only a 110 mile trip. Do the math.

Columbia got it pretty good when I left (it was still coming down pretty good too)

In the little bit I have been home (in Belmont NC) my driveway is now totally covered (had NO snow on it when I got home), the grass is all white now..........and it is snowing like heck.

People here amaze me at their audacity of driving like a maniac. I just cannot understand how in the heck they think that their SUV or car will stop and not hit me when they are 6 feet off my bumper and I have to slow down for the cars in front of me (whom I might add, I kept a great distance from)

I am digging the snow, well not really, but am enjoying seeing it actually snow here. We don't get much and it is pretty.

Ta Ta for now, I am off to write my name in the snow!!

 

[sch00lteacher]

Well, for the first time in two years they were right, it did snow. It is still snowing.

No school for my kids today. The roads look horrid. It took my wife about 30 more minuets to get to work.

I think we are the only ones on the block with a snow shovel, brought it down from NY when we moved. Same with the snow brush and ice scrapers for the cars.

Teddy Bear loves it. Pete the cat likes to watch the flakes fall. I hate it. It is cold, and it is getting into my bones.

Can't wait to watch the news tonight. I seriously bet that there will have been 300+ traffic accidents today in and around Charlotte. Because the fools would not slow down.