Someone said it's going to snow...

There is as strange phenomenon that happens in the south at even the threat of snow, it is paradoxical in nature and yet the tradition continues on!

1. People freak out
2. They dive to the nearest gas station to fill up there Car's and SUV’s
3. Buy milk and bread at the grocery store

Now if you are from the south you may not see anything wrong with this list, but from this northerner’s perspective it incites small fits of laughter, and here is why:

1. People freak out: In the South at the threat of any, and I mean ANY snow, people go crazy, that’s all it takes, it doesn’t matter if it is 42 degrees and sunny, if the weather man says it’s going to happen they believe him. In the North no one really freaks out, and we will generally know if the weather man it wrong. Also 10 - 12 inches of snow is generally no big deal, things will be on a little bit of a delay, but we can manage it. Our biggest fear during storms is that the snow or ice will cause us to lose power.

2. They dive to the nearest gas station to fill up there Car's and SUV’s: First off, none of you can drive in the snow, and secondly driving an SUV doesn’t automatically mean you are immune to hitting patches of ice and snow and spinning out of control. Also since you can’t drive in the snow you aren’t going to be going anywhere any way, if it does by some miracle actually snow everything in town will shut down and no one will have a reason to be driving anywhere. In the North the only reason we would be filling our gas tanks at the prediction of snow is so that we can drive to our favorite ski mountain the next morning and hit slopes.


3. Buy milk and bread at the grocery store: This is perhaps the thing I find most perplexing. I am assuming you are buying food in case you cannot get out of the house because of the snow right? How many people actually have only milk and bread on a daily basis? If we have threat of an ice storm or more then 12 inches of snow in the north we may stock up at the groceries too, but the items we buy are very different then those bought in the south. We are going to buy canned goods that can’t go bad when the power goes out and our refrigerator's don't work. We buy matches, candles and Kerosene so that we can light and heat the house when the power goes off.

So there you have it, a Yankee-doodles observations on snow...