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Written by epilonious on 2025-01-09 at 18:14

I have made the run to the grocery store and gotten bread, milk, and Eggs as we have snow predicted tomorrow and it's a Southern tradition.

The joke is always "What, do you want French toast when snowed in!? Are you going to eat milk sandwiches!?" But in reality, if we're snowed in and the power is on, egg bread and milk make a billion different things... And if we're snowed in and the power is off, bread is for sandwiches and the eggs and milk can keep outside or in the garage.

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Written by epilonious on 2025-01-09 at 18:19

And the south doesn't get "snowed in". We get Iced in.

If there is snow, we don't really have sand/salt trucks or plows to clear accumulation so everything gets packed down and slightly melted and frozen overnight into a really dangerous slick that nobody should be driving on except emergency vehicles and line trucks.

We're also temperate enough to more frequently just get freezing rainstorms that leave an inch of ice covering everything for a day or three.

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Written by epilonious on 2025-01-09 at 18:23

And because really bad ice/snow storms that come with lingering cold temperatures that keep everything solid after sunrise are, like, once in a decade occurrences (even with climate change). We only really keep sand and salt and winter-weather clearing equipment near major interstate flyover interchanges so that people just driving through don't get stuck here and add to the problems.

But that is also why we have lots of "Keep schools closed because cold" stories every year: Snowpocalypse.

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Written by epilonious on 2025-01-09 at 18:26

The ONE time the state and local government went "We already had several late openings/closures because it MIGHT snow, we're gonna chance it this time" we got sticking snow come at noon that made EVERY parent and person at work try to rush home and hit the streets at the same time. It literally froze a double-strength Rush Hour. In ATLANTA.

It was terrible. Saturday night live made fun of us.

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