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Welcome to winter in the south!
1 posted on 01/29/2014 5:02:56 AM PST by Biggirl
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I’m not having problems, are other people?


2 posted on 01/29/2014 5:06:40 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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When I first moved to Georgia from New Hampshire a neighbor saw my snow shovel and remarked that in Georgia people don’t shovel snow, they wait for it to go away. He was right.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 5:06:52 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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It could be worse... (Blizzard of '78)...


4 posted on 01/29/2014 5:09:30 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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3 inches of snow and the whole city shuts down. Amazing!


5 posted on 01/29/2014 5:09:58 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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that is ridiculous


6 posted on 01/29/2014 5:10:45 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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I made a call to College of Charleston yesterday and they were CLOSED because they were anticipating snow!


7 posted on 01/29/2014 5:11:30 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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In the South, if it sticks the kids are out of school. Unlike in the North, where you get it all the time and are thoroughly sick of it by the end of December, it's a new and exciting experience.

My son in college in Mississippi, went out and was pulled behind a 4-wheeler in a plastic box (he also went target-shooting to make his "Redneck Winter Festival" complete).

When I was going to Mississippi State back in the early 1980's, during snow storms we'd take lunch trays out of the cafeteria and then slide down "hernia hill", a large hill near the middle of campus. There would be students at the top of both hills on the road that would stop traffic when there were kids running down, then let the traffic through when they cleared out (the cafeteria sold old trays for .50 each so we weren't stealing anything). The cafeteria and student union would both have hot chocolate. It was a real festival.

9 posted on 01/29/2014 5:13:16 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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apparently people were stranded all over the Birmingham metro area and still are. I saw plenty yesterday when it took an hour and a half to get to my children—usually a 25 minute drive. The weather itself wasn’t the worst I have been in, it was the drivers and the hills.


10 posted on 01/29/2014 5:17:09 AM PST by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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11 posted on 01/29/2014 5:22:09 AM PST by DainBramage
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I talked to my sister this morning and my Aunt last night. Ice on those hills is a disaster. It took her 3 hours to do a normal 30 minute drive - and then had to have a neighbor drive her home since her winding road to the residence was nothing but ice.

Snow is easy. Driving on ice is treacherous.

18 posted on 01/29/2014 5:52:15 AM PST by Maigrey (Life, for a liberal, is one never-ending game of Calvinball. - giotto)
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I imagine this to be a crisis of epic proportions because, when confined to home, the courtesy of southern hospitality demands cooking marathons, producing vast quantities of food that is the antonym of “healthy”.

Rich, delicious, and you can hear your capillaries slamming shut. An entire pie is *not* an individual portion, nor is a whole rack of fresh, fluffy biscuits and cornbread, a KFC sized bucket of home fried chicken, mountains of deep fried vegetables, etc.

Oh, and gallons of sugared iced tea.


24 posted on 01/29/2014 6:08:41 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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