Posted on 01/09/2025 12:30:49 PM PST by DallasBiff
The South has experienced some pretty abnormal weather in the past few weeks, including snow, ice, and other winter weather that we're just not used to. Some people may say we're overreacting for cancelling school and closing roads because of a few inches of snow, but we really aren't crazy. Here's seven reasons why you shouldn't judge Southerners for freaking out about snow.
1. We literally never get snow in the South
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Saw a truck like that spreading sand and we were following it over an overpass right next to downtown Fort WOrth when the truck went sideways. Into the wall. We were up at least 30 feet off the ground. That was an eye opener.
I'm responsible for the power coming back on in my area. I was 23, still in college and working full time (though not for a week or more). With the power out, my wife and I walked to her parents' house over a mile away. I was there forever but couldn't do my homework for my computer science courses with my computer back at my house.
Eventually I trekked back to my house, the power was still out. I gathered my computer and some things and made my way back to my in-laws' house with my computer. As soon as I got there, I decided to call my house to see if the answering machine picked up, to test if the power was back on. It did. I'm convinced if I hadn't bothered to walk over 2 miles in the snow that day, 1 of those miles carrying a heavy computer, the power would still be off at my house. LOL
Icy roads are what you should be worried about. And in the south, it’s possible to have icy roads and no snow. If snow melts (or it simply rains) and the water quickly refreezes…icy roads. (It happens up north, too, of course. The south just seems to ride that freezing rain line more often because it seldom snows.)
Up north, folks prepare their vehicles or adapt their driving for the road conditions. Because the conditions cycle during the long winter months. In the south, conditions are generally good to ideal when they suddenly turn for the worse overnight. (On the bright side, the worst is typically over in a couple of days.)
I was there. Shut the whole place down for days.
Vintage photos: 13.5 inches of snow covered San Antonio more than 30 years ago
I was there for that, LL. I was a young Marine stationed at Lackland AFB for Military Police Academy...it started on a Friday night around midnight, if I remember right, and I got caught out in town in the apartment of a local gal, concerned about getting back to base before Monday and being UA. Thank goodness she had a jeep cause SA had no snow removal equipment and the cold locked in for days. Ahhhh...to be young and in trouble again.
Except when you do. Pretty much every year.
So maybe make some mild preparations?
Or not. Up to you really.
But I am going to judge you. Don't feel special. I judge everyone. And I expect them to judge me in return.
All of them do. Even those who say they don't. They lie about other things too.
Why you are a total hypocrite.
Because you just judged the people who judge.
Well saying doing something is not OK is judging an act, not a person.
But your personal attack on me is definitely judging me.
The Laws of Physics are the same for all.
Stay within your knowledge of same.
Peace...
I remember it well in rural Georgia when I was seven. We stood on the back porch and listened to the the limbs breaking off on the giant pine trees in the forest going down the hill to the bottom land. It sounded like cannon fire when the ice got so heavy the limbs had to snap. The power was out for a couple of weeks. We had plenty of firewood in an outbuilding and there was propane in the tank outside. Mom had to cook on an old-fashioned clawfoot monkey stove that usually was only for a backup.
I lived in Minneapolis for a couple years. Yes, y’all are very good about clearing the highways up there. Side roads and residential streets not so much. I lived in a townhouse that had a little hill to get into the complex. Nobody told me a little rear wheel drive sports car with lots of power was the worst possible thing to have in snowy conditions. (I bought the car a few years before I moved up there anyway). I couldn’t get that car to go up that little snow covered hill to get into the neighborhood where I lived.....not even with a bit of a head start could I make it up that hill.
It got so cold, it flattened my tires.
You really didn’t want to go outside more than you absolutely had to.
I went to the Mall of America just to have a bigger space to walk around in - I didn’t even want to buy anything. I just HAD TO get out of the house eventually.
I suddenly understood why y’all are all alcoholics up there. I became one too after the first 3-4 months of Winter.
I got the hell out and moved back down South. Never again.
Having been raised in Kali, lived 2 decades in Texas, and now live in Ohio, I agree with the basic premise.
Unfortunately, on this site, you will have the keyboard lords that know everything pronounce a disaster created by geography, a semi “free market”, and demand for housing in a really nice part of the world as “stupid”.
I don’t even need to read through the thread to know the bitter comments of “idiots!” because the freeper was behind someone driving 5 mph slower than you that is still trying to figure out how to drive on the garbage dumped by nature and governments on the highways in the winter.
This site stopped being fun about 15 years ago.
TX - in college, it snowed about 3”. My bf’s friends kidnapped me and carried me out of class. Thankfully, the prof thought it was so funny she dismissed class. We put a maybe 30” snowman on the top of bf’s Pacer and drove through campus letting it get pelted with snow balls. We remember the snow days because they were so far between and we always made the best of them.
And then it partially melts during the day and refreezes as ice overnight.
“In the winter of 1973, we got three snow storms in February.”
I remember that.
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