YEAH! Big snow in the South!

[Kappamd]

My fiance's parents are in Georgia right now (flew in right before the storm hit) and are completely baffled by the situation down there. They live in the snowbelt of Ohio and are completely used to have 1-2 feet of snow from December through February. I've tried to explain to them that they just down have the snow removal capabilities that we do up here, but I'm pretty sure they just think the entire state of Georgia is insane, lol. They picked a bad week to head south.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by Kappamd

I'm pretty sure they just think the entire state of Georgia is insane, lol. They picked a bad week to head south.

The entire state is insane, but that doesn't change the fact that the infrastructure isn't there to deal with it.

Plus, as a native Atlantan, I can drive on snow as well as anyone, but I cannot and will not drive on ice. And that's what they've got right now. My father had to drive my mother (who is a nurse at a hospital downtown) in this morning and he said there are sheets of glare ice all over the interstates.

I won't even try to explain the Great Bread/Milk Panic because I surely don't understand it.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I won't even try to explain the Great Bread/Milk Panic because I surely don't understand it.

Except this time the nutty people were actually right! My husband went to the grocery store Sunday night to fill a prescription. He said the aisles were bare- there was practically nothing left to buy! However, it is now Wednesday, and our street is still not safe, and probably won't be until Friday. Lord help my calcium-loving 4 year old and his milk addiction if we ran out of the stuff.

Agreed that 99/100 times though the mad rush to "stock up" is for a storm that last less than 24 hours, so yeah, i will never understand.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

. Lord help my calcium-loving 4 year old and his milk addiction if we ran out of the stuff.

Agreed that 99/100 times though the mad rush to "stock up" is for a storm that last less than 24 hours, so yeah, i will never understand.

Just because I don't get it doesn't mean I didn't participate. We don't eat much bread, but for two thirtysomethings without kids - we can suck down a gallon of skim at an alarming rate. I blame my husband's crack-like addiction to cereal.

Of course, I'm in Nashville and we haven't been compromised at all.

But we have milk.