[highimpact]

I live along the coast, in southern Santa Rosa county. Our area will possible get a light dusting, or up to an inch of snow. I just received a call from the Superintendent of schools for the county. No school tomorrow, based on nothing more than a forecast of potential flurries. When I was growing up, there had to be accumulations of several inches, and blizzard like conditions to get a snow day. Of course, I lived in an area that had snow removal equipment, and buses had studded/chained tires. Unfortunately for my kids, they don't get a snow day because we home-school.

[DManA]

We’re heading down Orlando way next week. We’ll pack our parkas.

[BamaDi]

I’m here in Mobile and we’ve been getting sleet off and on for the last several hours.....supposed to get 1-3” of snow by mid-morning Friday....yuk!

[goseminoles]

Woo hoo!!! Time to get out the shovel.

[WestwardHo]

Have you ever been through a 1” snow storm in the South?
Hilarious and dangerous at the same time. First, you have drivers that are barely used to paved roads. Next, you have bald tires because the roads are rarely slick. Finally, many of the drivers have never driven slick roads.
In one of these rare events I saw a vehicle approach a slight incline and get stuck in the icy rim of a sewer lid because his tires were bald.
Bumper cars heaven.

[Atlantan]

Snow in the Atlanta area tomorrow. It’s predicted more accumulation south of the city.

[DesertConservative]

I hate it when Global Warming gets in the way of a three-day weekend!

[MrPiper]

I put 400lbs in the back of my truck so I can try to make it to work tomorrow at 5AM. Wish me luck! Jackson, Ms. predicting up to 6” of SNOW and I have two bridges to cross!!! AL GORE,,, where are you??????

[yarddog]

I was born and raised in the Florida Panhandle. There are plenty of people up North who know little about Winter driving.

When I lived in Kansas, several locals told me 4wd was no advantage on ice. Never having driven on ice, I assumed they were right.

One day heading West out of Wichita, I noticed all the traffic on the interstate was creeping along at 15mph due to solid ice.

After a few miles, traffic thinned out and I had not noticed any real problem so I sped up to around 25. Finally remembering what my friends had told me, I took the truck out of 4wd. Maybe 5 seconds later the truck began to slide. This kept up until I put it back into 4wd. The sliding stopped tho I did keep the speed down.

BTW, having driven on muddy dirt roads all my life, I noticed driving on icy roads was very similar and I subconsciously corrected the same way.

[usmcobra]

Here a trick that I have always used when it snows, I deflate the tires to about 20psi. I find it works well enough to get me home especially if I don’t try to drive fast.

If it does snow I will be used my 4x4 with the tires properly deflated for extra grip.

[dalereed]

I’m flying into Orlando tomorrow at 8:00pm and driving in a rental car to Daytona.

Is that storm supposed to get that far south?

How long is that bad weather supposed to last, The Nationwide is on Saturday and the Daytona 500 on Sunday!!!!