You call this snow...?

I really wish I could get some pictures up for the folks who live where it REALLY snows.

Wednesday afternoon, they started warning (SCARING) folks who live in this area that a winter storm was headed this way. Last night (thursday) the closings for the area (school/church, business, government) started appearing on the tv screen, even though it hadn't even done anything yet, and rain/sleet/snow/ was still a possibility. This morning it started out freezing rain and turned to sleet. The roads are a mess, the bridge over the Mississippi River is down to 1 lane each direction due to wrecks, and folks are staying home if possible. Yet, you look out the window and there's barely enough snow to make a snowBALL, much less THINK about making a snowman....oops, snowperson.

Luckily, I'm not working this weekend, as folks here start calling for pizza delivery (I work delivering for P-H) if there is even a hint of a rain storm. When it rains/sleets we get deluged with orders, and yet customers won't tip, and won't clear their sidewalks.

I wish I had stayed in Florida another week.

Well, we don't know where 'in this area' is, but ice storms are generally a lot bigger hazard than snow storms.

In-Laws got 55-inches in the last storm.

stuart in mn wrote: Well, we don't know where 'in this area' is, but ice storms are generally a lot bigger hazard than snow storms.

+1. I've driven in snow, and I've driven on ice. Snow is easier, by far... A good driver can lose control and not even know it on the ice.

I snows in southern ohio all the time in the winter. EVERY time it snows even the slightest bit everything closes and no one remembers how to drive. Wrecks everywhere, cars upside down in ditches, etc. It's like everyone forgets what snow is in the two week periods between snowfalls.

"HERE" is south western Tn.....not exactly the heart of the snowbelt.

Yes, ice can be more dangerous than snow, but the build up this storm and the one last month got BEFORE anything was even falling from the sky, much less accumulating on the ground would rival an expected BLIZZARD where my folks live (north eastern Pa.).

After nearly 6 hours, my car has a coating of sleet, but I can still see what color it is, and there sure as heck are no drifts of the fluffy white stuff on the ground. Folks here can't drive in rain (it never occurs to them that a wet road is slippery), much less snow, so in that vein the hysteria is well deserved. But it looks like a "regular" snowy day would look in southern Ohio or Maryland.

At first I laugh at people who all go and buy bread and milk (seriously, why?) when a snowstorm threatens here in SC, but then I realize that I made the right move from 195"/year Syracuse, and I feel pretty fine by that.

My Dad always said to strap a snow shovel on your roof and drive south until they think you are crazy. Stop there and buy a house.