I went out for lunch yesterday to the local Tex-Mex place. Parking lot was almost full. Uh-oh!
Place was busy, but not bad. OK, cool.
Walked around the corner to get a few things at Kroger.
OMG!
You’d think we were about to be snowed in for a month. The place was mobbed. I bought less than a basket of stuff, mostly fresh things, no milk, no bread, no eggs, which I already had on hand. $20 or so.
It was just out of control. Don’t these people go to grocery normally? The woman in line ahead of me had 4 dozen eggs, and a bunch of bread, but no milk, just some Half and Half. I pointed out this French Toast snowstorm trifecta shortcoming to her. Dunno, they might have been out of milk, I didn’t look.
Just damn on the whole experience.
OK, I can make fun of the hyperbole that accompanies the Atlanta winter forecasts, BUT...
Our issue is not the snow amounts but the ice that forms before snow starts (like last night) and then the ice that forms after once we get some melt-off.
I don't care where you are from, navigating on ice is not safe unless you have chains (since studded snow tires are likely illegal everywhere now...) and the skills to avoid those without chains skidding toward you.
Having previously lived in New England for years and somewhat fearlessly navigating in the snows and after snow days we had there (and without 4WD), I cannot emphasize enough how different it is here driving with ice under snow and southern black ice.
YMMV