Hell No, We Won’t Snow
Posted in Random Thoughts and tagged with blizzards, snow, virginia, weather wimps on 01/30/2010 02:43 pm by MeganNormally, it never snows in my part of Virginia. Just a single flake will be the leading news story, even if it’s unconfirmed, and announced with the fervor of a Bigfoot hunter – “Flurries sighted in Virginia Beach!” It simply doesn’t snow here. Every few years, we’ll get a couple of inches. That’s about it.
Imagine my surprise, then, to wake up this morning to this:
Ugh. The kids already had Monday off for some sort of teacher workday (is it me or are there a ton of those these days? I don’t remember there being that many when I was in high school, but my kids’ school has 2-3 per month it seems), but I have a bad feeling they may not have school on Tuesday either. Hopefully the roads will be clear enough by Monday afternoon that we can still get to speech therapy on time.
Everything is closed today, of course. A few area businesses and churches have taken the precaution of announcing their closures tomorrow and Monday as well. Nice. We’re expected to wind up with 7-10 inches by the time the snow stops (it’s been snowing all day, with occasional bouts of high wind, very exciting *rolleyes*). I haven’t heard anyone say the dreaded B-word yet, but as they trot it out for a couple of inches, I’m sure this will be called the Blizzard of ‘10 any day now (the Blizzard of ‘96 was only about 6 inches, as I recall). Just a whiff of snow sends the locals into a frenzy of panic, whereupon they buy batteries, flashlights, space heaters, and water.
Now, I went to college in Utah, as many of you know (Zoobies!), and this is like a joke to me. 6 inches? They might mention that casually on the news if nothing better happened: “And finally, last night we got six inches in some parts of the Valley.” Certainly not the abject panic of Virginia. But, it actually does snow out there in Utah, one of the many horrific things about that state, but at least people aren’t wimpy about snow there. 6 inches wouldn’t even cause a delay in the schools. Hell, dropping a foot overnight never delayed BYU. People in Utah don’t freak out at the very thought of driving in snow.
Of course, this area is very sanguine about weather that would cause panic in Utah. Hurricane? Gale-force winds? Feet of rain? Flooding? Category four? Let’s throw a hurricane party! Evacuate, you say? Why the devil should we? The grill’s fired up and we’re gonna ride out the storm with hot dogs and beer with the neighbors.
But snow? zomgcanneverleavethehouseagain.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
There will be school on Tuesday or my head will explode. The End.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Agreed.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I hope you both have school Tues. We rarely have snow days here. There has to be a foot or more of snow and it had to start at a really odd time (like 5am) so they couldn’t get the salt/plow trucks out in time. Otherwise, we send em in. Sometimes we’ll have a 1-2 hour delay so they can clear the roads. Usually, it’s “sorry kids, bundle up”.
January 30th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
I’m not sure our city actually owns snow plows. I know the last big snow we got, about 8 years ago, they didn’t have any and had to rent them from a neighbor city.
They cancel at the drop of a hat around here.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:39 am
Please, please, PLEASE come to visit. I am already bored and have repainted and deep cleaned my entire place. Seriously.
January 31st, 2010 at 9:01 am
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January 31st, 2010 at 10:57 am
They close everything here for a few flurries…lol. We have no plows and no salt piles to use with them anyway, and no one native to this area knows how to drive in it anyway. Everyone attacks the local groceries for milk and bread (although many of them don’t actually consume either item) and the streets are all rolled up when the prediction is for a half inch. Quite a difference from living in NJ for sure.
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January 31st, 2010 at 7:18 pm
snowww!!!! i’m glad it has chosen to venture further south this winter…
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