Bring It Bob Stokes, Or I Will Punch You Right Around This Area Of Your Doppler Center
There is snow in the forecast for tonight! They are saying that we could see up to 3 inches in some parts of the city. Now, to my frosty friends of the North, this may not be a big deal. You probably get 3 inches and don’t even realize what’s happened. But to those of us in the it’s-not-the-heat-but-the-humidity-belt, snow is not a terribly common occurance. Oh we get our share of the white stuff. Just not as regularly, or as much.
When it does snow in the South, we go on Yellow Alert (no, not THAT yellow). Schools and businesses close. Cars are gassed up. Grocery stores are mobbed and emptied. Salt trucks begin dumping heaps of it all over the roads before even the first flake falls. Then we all hunker down and wait. Normally, it’s never as bad as the local weather geniuses predict. But occasionally, it happens.
I remember fondly The Blizzard of 2003. We got a whopping 6-7 inches. My street was impassable for days. Those adults who hadn’t prepared, still ventured out, only to ditch their cars, figuratively and literally, when they remembered they didn’t actually know how to drive in snow. But the kids knew what they were doing. They ventured out with their sleds and cookie sheets and trash can lids and cardboard boxes, and took full advantage of the winter wonderland.
Well, luckily Albert is just old enough now that I can bundle him up all Randy-style and take him ah-shy-t for some hands-on (or butts-on as the case may be) fun with the fluffy goodness. We have a slight slope in our back yard, so I’ll be greasing up the cookie sheets tonight so I can teach him a thing or two about flake physics in the morning. BIYM is already panicking.
So don’t mess with me weatherboy! Daddy wants a snow day Saturday with his son!
It will be my first real snow as a newly non -Floridian. I’m excited. I can’t wait to dress up The Goon Squad and take them out in it. They’re not going to know what hit them.
Here in the Midwest the snow hasn’t come hard this year. We did have a couple storms that dropped 6-7 inches of snow. I didn’t miss work or even get to leave early. I think we got an inch of snow yesterday and today. I don’t even shovel till 4 inches.
Oh, my gosh! You have to read MY POST from today! If you get our weather, and it looks like you will, you will have a satisfying snowfall. Even better if it’s been colder there than here, which I’m sure it has. We had big, fat, fluffy flakes all afternoon. It was dreamy.
Do we need to send in supplies? Are you able to get out of the house?
I think it’s going to miss us, and I’m crying in the hot chocolate and marshmallows I purchased just in case.
I’m still recalling the Blizzard of 93 fondly. Snowed in, no kids…GOOD TIMES.