Snow day!

I've lived in the frigid NW corner of Ohio, and in the deep South. Now, I'm in the Carolinas, and tonight we're expecting 5-8" of snow. Wonderful, beautiful, fresh, pure as the driven snow.

When it snows here, everything closes, church, school, business - and everyone goes home and stays home. There's no budget for snow removal equipment as it is rarely needed. Natives have not had the opportunity to learn to drive in snow and ice. Everything stops.

Tonight, and it's not even 8 pm, I already know there will be no school or work tomorrow. But by Tuesday afternoon, it will all be gone. I don't have to shovel or spread de-icer. It is beautiful to look out and see pure white, glistening snow - no dirt or dormant grass. The only footprints I'll see in the morning will be from deer, coons, or fox.

March has come in like a lion here and it is breathtaking.

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Neat. I grew up in an area where 1/4" of snow closed schools and 1/2" closed everything. It is indeed beautiful and then delightful how fast it goes away. We used to love preparing for a snow day--go get treats and stuff that could be cooked in a pot in the fireplace in case we lost power and collect books from the library or bookmobile so you could just curl up under a blanket with a book.

If we got a quarter inch of snow here in HI I am sure everything would close down! But I have never lived anywhere where anything less than a foot closed things, except for ice storms.

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Yea we do close down when the ice and snow falls. It does not take much to stop things around here. I only got to stay home when I was in the school systems. When worked for the hospital I had to go to work regardless so it took 2 hours to make an one hour drive because of all the jack-knifed 18 wheelers. Now I still have to go to work in it but it only takes an hour and no 18 wheelers.

It is beautiful but parts of Arkansas got a lot of the snow and parts did not get anything. My part did not get anything and I did want to see one good snow this winter.

We had 10" yesterday, the 10th storm this year, and I've shoveled out my parking space and car that many times. My back and knees can't do it any more. Only the schools close down; everyone else drives like an idiot. Deech, come to southern NYS, and you can have my snow.

Having lived in the South where 1/4" stopped everything, to the North, where I am now and we have had about 200" this year so far. Watching the last storm come up the east coast and not dump any snow on us, I could enjoy the snow!

sneakers Wrote:
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> We had 10" yesterday, the 10th storm this year,
> and I've shoveled out my parking space and car
> that many times. My back and knees can't do it
> any more. Only the schools close down; everyone
> else drives like an idiot. Deech, come to southern
> NYS, and you can have my snow.

If we get any snow we want it to come down, not cover the roads, look beautiful and be gone the next day. Just snow and no ice like parts of the state had last month.

You can keep it. I get nervous as soon as I see one flake.

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