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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Good snow tires (Blizzaks) work very well in wet conditions too. How many times must you die for the tires to be worth it?
I was an Over-the-road driver for 45 years. I learned to drive a truck in the Mountains of West Virginia hauling lumber from the back woods mills. When I started OTR and was in southern states I found out their motto was “GOD PUT IT THERE. GOD WILL TAKE IT AWAY” (grin)
I always buy snow rated tires. If only for the wet traction(I live in the people’s republik of California)
Two things never ever to skimp on. Tires and Brakes.
“7 Reasons Why Judging Southerners For Freaking Out About Snow Is NOT OK”
oh, hogwash ... i’m southern, born and bred, but have now lived most of my life in snowy Colorado, so just LOVE to laugh at the fools there who strip mine the grocery stores of milk, bottled water, bread, and toilet paper whenever a couple of inches of snow fall BECAUSE there are always “shortages” when it snows ..
so every time it snows a couple of inches in the Charlotte metro area, i always remind my friends and relatives who live in the area to rush out and stock up on a year’s supply of milk, bottled water, bread and toilet paper because “shortages” ...
I’m originally from Maine and have lived in the south for the last 35+ years. They’re fun to watch in the snow and I’d take here any day to Maine and anything north of the Mason Dixon line.
Was that the one where it killed off Florida’s oranges?
I don’t remember
Even in Utah we see cars with almost treadless tires zooming all over the road when it snows. Dumba$$es never learn.
“I have snow tires and an AWD car. I don’t have to slow down.” CRASH!
Wing plow on the lead truck and the two following trucks...
Pretty good, actually.
Probably have their cruise on.
Fresh Studded snow tires and AWD are pretty good.
Unfortunately the rest of the peeps being unequipped makes such a setup fairly useless. Sad....
YMMV
Tires, though very complicated composite constructions, are the major connections to the local, Newtonian Laws of Physics.
Those Laws are not subject to Traitor Roberts “Opinions”. They are immediately and equitably enforced.
YMMV
My first was in Fairbanks. At maybe 20 mph, with no inputs to the steering wheel, brakes or the throttle I found myself doing a full 360. Fortunately there was no traffic and I stayed on the road. A real eye opener.
Local fruit will taste a bit better and look more colorful because of chilly temperatures early Monday. Otherwise, the much-anticipated weather during Christmas weekend wasn’t much to talk about.
Predictions of dire frosts and freezes didn’t materialize, as rain and cloud cover moderated what was expected to be an intense cold snap.
“Didn’t mean anything to me,” said John White, a Brooksville architect who grows oranges and grapefruits in Citrus County.
Temperatures dipped into the low 30s and even high 20s in some parts of Hernando County early Monday.
But citrus growers said real damage doesn’t set in for them unless their trees suffer through six to eight straight hours of temperatures in the mid-20s.
In fact, the chilly night Sunday even may have improved the fruit.
“A nice, small frost will give a lot of color to the fruit,” said Kathy Oleson, owner of the Citrus Attraction at Boyett Grove, southeast of Brooksville.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/12/28/cold-snap-passes-softly/
Bingo.
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WTF? They closed my favorite bar in Dallas tonight.
There is college men's basketball.
My son is responsible for that blizzard, the blizzard of ‘93. We were living in Stevenson, AL at the time.
He was only 7. But he liked snow and he noticed as we had not had any. Josh decided he would pray for snow. I, in my spiritual wisdom, told him that God takes everything into consideration and sometimes answers “no. After all,” I continued, “it was March.”
The rest is history. And, yes, I truly believe the Blizzard of ‘93 is my son, Joshua’s fault.
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