Our First “Winter Storm” Warning
No. Really. It’s unbelievable. The grocery stores are running out of bread and milk. There’s a rumor schools have already delayed for the morning. I received an urgent email at work with our inclement weather policy. We have a "winter storm" warning for Anderson tonight. The entire community is coming to a grinding halt. I’m sure Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel is on his way to town. In case you haven’t heard, we may get a full inch of snow tonight.
Should we get buried by this monster storm, I can assure you that I will do my best to continue to provide regular blog updates throughout the duration of the emergency conditions. I have temporarily moved operations to my blogging bunker where I’m prepared to weather the worst storm conditions to bring you the late-breaking news.
I lived in Lafayette, Louisiana when I was in the 8th grade. One day, the projected low was 31 degrees. There was a 30% chance of snow.
They canceled school.
We got about three flakes.
If it gets really bad while you’re blogging Tony, for the love of everything holy… save yourself.
Your sacrificial heart for our reading pleasure while the rest of us are eating slices of bread and drinking gallons of milk before they spoil is heart-warming. Welcome to the South. If you had gone to the store, you would have seen the beer and the Copenhagen are gone as well.
Wow, not even a year in the South and you’ve gone all weather-whimpy on us!
Try Michigan. One inch of snow is nothing, we’ve gotten 6 inches of snow at one time before and probably still had school in the morning.
welcome to the south! at least it started with snow and not rain this time! Maybe we will get away without the power outages from all the downed lines.
Tony,
Don’t you get it? It’s an excuse to stay in bed with your wife in the morning. Enjoy the southern excuse of not being “able” to get to work and have some fun!
You’re a funny guy!!!
Went to college in KY and have a daughter who lives in Knoxville. One snow flake falls and the panic attacks start. Worst part is the driving. Come up north where real snow falls and real driving takes place.
Easy with the sarcasm! This hardly ever happens around here. Let’s see; how can I relate? Oh I’ve got it, kinda rare like when the Irish would win a football game this year. Sorry, I know that was low, but I had to take a shot back. Time for me to go, gotta run get some bread and milk…
Oh, good grief, another Yankee complaining about Southern snow. Dagg. Go back home :)
(I’m smiling, man, I know that we can’t drive in snow. Convince the boys in Raleigh and Columbia to buy real snow moving equipment instead of these wimpy little trucks we have, and things would be different. Also, please move the mountains. I’ve been to Indiana, and it’s really flat up there.)
Being that I’m a “yankee” since I grew up in Iowa, what we have here isn’t something that I haven’t driven in or seen a lot of before. Driving home with it snowing hard was like driving into the twilight zone last night. Then I remembered the southern folk (for understandable reasons) don’t have the winter equipment like we do up north, nor do they have the flatter lands like up north. I may have ventured into work, but if I hear another “bubba” as they been called tell me that he can drive on ice because he has 4 wheel drive, I’m going to pray really hard and hide at home where it’s safe!
The bad thing about living in western NY in the winter isn’t the feet of snow we may get at a time—it’s that the snowplowers are so good at what they do, we never get snow days!! yup, right now I work in a school and unexpected days off are always welcome! ;)