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I'm in Atlanta this week hanging out in a nursing home. We moved our mother into hospice care last week. Her time here is limited. So not a great week.

The only levity has been the pre-pre-pre-storm drama. Every TV station has crisis teams covering the build up. Went to the grocery store last night. I thought there must've been a zombie alert! On Monday they closed the schools for today and Wednesday. It sprinkled rain for about an hour this morning. Panic set in at the nursing home. It's 36 degrees here.

I do understand that an ice or snow storm here has a different impact than back at home in South Dakota. But I also appreciate the comedy break this non-storm is offering me. It's a hoot and a half!

Bob

Give it a few hours Bob, and then get back to us, would ya?

Sorry to hear about your Mom. Our thoughts are with you.

Prayers for your family.

We would probably send some time learning to spell "y'all, windows, seeing" and " stupid", stupid.

Thank you both. I fully expect the ice to make the roads impassable. Pictures and accounts from 2 weeks ago attest to that. It's just the build up that I'm enjoying. Just poking a little fun.

Bob

One can only imagine the hysteria down there right about now.

Sounds like your pants will soon be full of it, too. You need to get out of that place before the cold thickens you blood more and you get brain damaged - more. They say it can get bad enough to make suckers even vote Dimocrap.

I've been getting snow/sleet for the last two hours. All that is going to freeze tonight. We just don't have the experience and infrastructure in the south. We like to raise our buildings a but, to let the water run underneath That means exposed pipes. I don't think y'all run heat pumps up north but mine has problems keeping up when it gets in the teens.

And we're smart enough to live somewhere it doesn't get to -24. That's one reason, read this slowly, We Live In The SOUTH! But then, obviously "smarts" isn't something you've much concerned yourself with.... obviously.

I'm sorry to hear about your Mom. My prayers are with her, you, and your family.

My 83 year old Mom lives in the Sandhills of NC and she called me last night, laughing about the hysteria circling the forecast. She could out-drive 90% of the folks around there in any weather, but is a whole lot smarter than to get out in it.

It is sleeting and raining here in NE Texas, chunks of sleet sounding like shot hitting the windows. The horses aren't too happy about being stuck under their shed, but they'll live.
To echo what HAJ and some of the other folks in the South have said, the infrastructure has a lot to do with how snow & ice are handled here. The roads, for instance, are crowned differently than I'm used to in Alaska and they are not conducive to staying on the pavement. Add in negative-banked curves (yes, it is true! ) no snow removal equipment, minimal sanding equipment, and folks who wreck on wet roads, much less icy ones, and you have subject matter for every drama-ridden newscaster.

Me, I think I'll keep working, maybe walk up to the house for a break. It's tough to have to commute 50 yards.

Ed

Chili is soup without beans. No chili served without beans at my house.

talk about stirring the pot! and from a Texan too!

I just made a grocery, post office, coffee run in my 1973 Volkswagen bug.
Who needs a 4x4 and chains?
If it gets really bad ill take the Toyota 4 wheel drive.

http://macssnacks.com/

This'll get ya started..

Crack open some of those jars of venison, add some beans and fixings. You'll be good to go!

Bob

i live near pittsburgh. let me tell you, people do not know how to drive in bad weather. they either go too fast for conditions, or too slow and make everyone hit their brakes. i was following a woman down a hill a couple of years ago. the roads had some slush but not bad and it was above freezing i'm sure. anyway, i rolled on up to her tail because i didn't know she was going so slow. i then backed off, backed off again and finally after almost stopping my car, i had a safe distance to follow her snail trail down the hill. we both pulled into a gas station and she got out of her car and started reading me the riot act, telling me i needed to learn how to drive, swearing, etc. at first i was angry, but because she was kind of a cougar, i got ornery and started joking with her. she didn't appreciate it and just kept getting madder and finally throwing me some F'bombs. it was quite funny. especially considering i know for 100% sure that I was driving safer for those conditions than she was.

The last time I was up north during a heavy snowstorm the only vehicles I saw in ditches or wrecks or whatever, all had license plates from the northern states.

I did not see one license plate from a south of the mason line in a ditch or in a wreck.

I don't mind a little chili with beans...as long as they're in different bowls.

I'm fully aware of what pork skins and cracklins are.
But " pig skin chip" is a new one.
What do you figure Yankees call liver mush?

Pork parts spread?

I believe the correct usage would be "all y'all".