Given my heritage, born and raised in South Carolina, it is difficult to understand all the hubbub about a foot or two of snow in the Northeast. I have worked with people from all those states who assured me that they go around in two feet of snow the same as if it were not there, yet when it happens we are bombarded with stories of the “blizzard”. I have spent a year in Iceland and have attended company schools in Chicago three times during different winters and the deepest snow I have ever seen fall at one time happened right here where I sit, about seventy miles inland from Myrtle Beach, we had seventeen inches of beautiful powder in ‘73. Further South during the same storm up to twenty five inches was officially recorded. The highways shut down, people spent days in gas stations along the interstates, they were being rescued by helicopter, radio bulletins asked anyone owning a four wheel drive vehicle to call the rescue squad number. Most of us still managed to survive it, is it not really true that folks up North zip around in two feet of snow as if it didn’t exist?