***Snow Hits the South and the Carolinas and Virginia -- Report in here!!!!

I just moved to Raleigh in April FROM Greensboro!!! Glad you're getting snow!

181 posted on 01/02/2002 4:38:00 PM PST by Howlin

To: F.J. Mitchell

I just heard the TV guy saying it hadn't started there yet, but that it would. It's just not hitting the ground!

182 posted on 01/02/2002 4:39:09 PM PST by Howlin

To: F.J. Mitchell

Hold on to that bread! The "bad moon gonna rise"

183 posted on 01/02/2002 4:41:01 PM PST by CFW

It's coming down thick and heavy here now! Looks like the weatherman was right for once.

185 posted on 01/02/2002 4:41:46 PM PST by Carolinamom

It started snowing right around 7:00pm in Clayton. By 7:45 it started sticking to the roads. I absolutely refused to go to the grocery store today! I decided we won't starve between now and Friday, and anyway, if I really need anything I've got two supermarkets within 1 mile of my house, so I can walk if I have to (like I did 2 years ago when we got 20" of snow).

Also, after I slid across the beltline last year when it started to snow on my way to work and the beltline looked like a dirt road (except it was snow), I've decided I'm not going to drive at all, especially now that I've got a new car! Smart Southerners don't drive in the snow unless they've got the right vehicle! My work isn't so urgent that I can't take a day off. The idiots on the road are the redneck types who think they can drive anything with a motor in any type of weather, and transplanted Yankees who moved here 20 years ago and think they still know how to drive in the snow but the truth is they've completely forgotten how. They're the ones slipping and sliding around in their front or rear wheel drive cars and pickups, not the smart ones.

I still don't know if our office will be open tomorrow, but if I go to work tomorrow, I'm riding in with my handy Yankee co-worker. He's a recent transplant, so he hasn't forgotten how to drive in the snow, but I'll dress appropriately for the possibility of having to get out and push us out of a snowbank.

Our company on any given day has 700 vehicles on North Carolina roads, mostly in tonight's snow affected areas. I have a feeling none of our vehicles are going to be moving at all east of Greensboro tomorrow. The way it looks right now, we'll be shut down tomorrow, especially since the snow we're getting right now isn't even part of the heavy stuff we're supposed to get later on tonight.

186 posted on 01/02/2002 4:43:58 PM PST by wimpycat

To: Carolinamom; Howlin

Hope this pic shows up ok ..... it's the Charlotte airport.

187 posted on 01/02/2002 4:44:12 PM PST by kayak

I'm sure it'll miss us here in Mississippi like it usually does. We get it so rarely that it's a real treat, as long as there's no companion ice storm.

188 posted on 01/02/2002 4:45:00 PM PST by MississippiMan

Wasn't it great! When you were just a "little one".

When I was 4 or five years old and shorter, I remember wading through snow that was up to my shoulders. I wouldn't want to do that now! but it was really fun THEN.

189 posted on 01/02/2002 4:46:31 PM PST by Carolinamom

Yeah, the radar picture that Teacup posted, shows it all over this area-just a matter of the dry air getting saturated I suppose. I wouldn't feel a bit slighted if we got just a little less than we got in 99.

190 posted on 01/02/2002 4:52:21 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell

hehehe i survived winter of (96) also 120 inches total here in drums pa.................. none yet this winter............

191 posted on 01/02/2002 4:53:41 PM PST by angcat

To: Carolinamom; kayak

192 posted on 01/02/2002 4:55:58 PM PST by Howlin

To: F.J. Mitchell

Check out the WRAL site; they have great radar!

193 posted on 01/02/2002 4:57:14 PM PST by Howlin

...or they just feel self-conscious shopping in such a "plebian" establishment. Ahem.

LOL! Is there a Fresh Market (or its equivalent) in Wakefield? They were probably cleaning that place out and that's why nobody was at the Food Lion. Before we bought our house (couldn't afford to buy in Raleigh) we lived near Cameron Village and used to shop at the upscale Harris Teeter and the Fresh Market, only because they were the closest grocery stores. Talk about snobby!

194 posted on 01/02/2002 4:57:54 PM PST by wimpycat

And if the bad moon fails to rise, that bread should be good and green by St. Patricks day.I'm not a Catholic, part Irish probably, but what the heck, aren't we all looking for a good excuse to party?

195 posted on 01/02/2002 4:58:14 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell

Beautiful! I love the Hatteras light house in the corner!

196 posted on 01/02/2002 4:58:36 PM PST by kayak

aloha lucky one...... how is the tourism in maui doing............. are the beaches filling up, i did see a picture of waikiki beach a few months ago and it was empty............... aloha

197 posted on 01/02/2002 4:59:10 PM PST by angcat

"I just moved to Raleigh in April FROM Greensboro!!!"

Their loss; our gain. :)

198 posted on 01/02/2002 4:59:43 PM PST by RightOnline

So do the damn squirrels.........LOL. Notice they knocked the top off..........AGAIN!

199 posted on 01/02/2002 5:00:45 PM PST by Howlin

We shall see. I'm getting a lot of replies to my request for people interested in getting the NC Freepers started again!

200 posted on 01/02/2002 5:01:28 PM PST by Howlin

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