To: ryanjb2
In the defense of Southerners, the counties are very poor equipped to deal with snow. In the North it takes 30 minutes max for the snowplows to arrive & for the roads to clear. A county in Tennessee might have only two snowplows total. You'd be waiting for hours for the snowplow to come (if at all). All the electricity is above ground, and there are a lot more trees so snow-laden branches are very likely to knock out your power for days.
And besides the real danger isn't from snow, it's from ice... it's very difficult to explain to the Northerners how incredible these ice storms are.
That being said, I was born in the South, but I live in the North and I do NOT relish carrying a snow SHOVEL in my car nor do I relish having to get up 60 minutes early just in case I have to shovel the snow.
Who's the funny one... the Southerner for shutting down for a few inches of snow... or the Northerner who, well, lives in the North? I say the latter.
30 posted on
02/09/2004 7:33:32 PM PST by
Nataku X
To: Nakatu X
Correction: grew up in the South, not lucky enough to have been born there..
31 posted on
02/09/2004 7:36:34 PM PST by
Nataku X
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