What's your weather like?

[SoonerTexan]

Yeah most places do because it is still in the 40s and 50s in the winter at least a few months

[Auspicious]

We're sharing weather with neiner, here.

--Yesterday I was standing outside the ballet studio in 60-degree weather with no jacket when I got the message that school was cancelled for today due to (impending) snow.

--Also, husband took a sleeping bag and change of clothes with him to the hospital to sleep in his office, as he was advised, anticipating not otherwise being able to safely get to the hospital Wednesday morning. He has never spent the night at a hospital since leaving med school and starting pathology. Residency in Chicago and fellowship in Minneapolis, but it's South Carolina that provides his first snow emergency!

--Our first two winters here I didn't even buy the kids winter coats. They just needed hooded sweatshirts. This year I had to buy Cora a real coat during a cold snap in November and worried that she'd end up only wearing it that once--instead she's needed it several times.

[Thirteen]

23 degrees, but no precip. Bad north wind yesterday, this morning it's relatively calm.


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[JDAZ11]

It's like -7, but it's amazingly sunny. Almost sunnier than I have seen here yet. So strange!!!

[Deebs]

DH is working in LaFayette. He said he tried to spray his windshield, and the wiper fluid froze as it came out. Crazy!

[migirl]

-11 (without windchill) this morning when I took the dog for a walk, it was so cold that my eyelashes kept getting stuck together ... that was a first for me!

[DrBandMe]

-11 (without windchill) this morning when I took the dog for a walk, it was so cold that my eyelashes kept getting stuck together ... that was a first for me!

Wait, that's a real thing? Like, that happens? Oh hell no. I'm hibernating. Someone wake me up in April.

[scarlett09]

I do laugh at the general panic in the warmer climes about the snow. However, it is a laugh mixed with concern as it is my understanding that most locales do not have the supplies and infrastructure to deal with winter precip. Here, people freak out about a few inches of snow and buy all the bread and milk within a 100 mile radius, but we have plows, spreaders and a stockpile of brine and salt. I hope everyone stays safe!

Going to be cold tonight, but not as cold as it was the first time that polar vortex bitch made an appearance. Might get some snow overnight tonight, just enough to make my street icy yet again. I think this week is the longest I've seen snow cover last in some time. Maybe it will melt this weekend? A girl can hope!


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[niener]

I just got off the phone with my grandmother who lives in Birmingham and she said it's an absolute madhouse up there. They are getting waaaay more snow than predicted and aren't remotely prepared. They didn't cancel schools this morning so they've only just started letting the kids out to go home but the roads are in such terrible shape that most parents can't get to the schools. Over half the interstates are closed, there are cars in ditches everywhere, people have been getting out and walking down the interstate with no coat, no hat, no gloves. Cell phone carriers are completely overloaded with everyone trying to call schools, family, emergency responders so it's hard to get through. It's just crazy town. Normally they go overboard with cancellations and keeping everyone at home but for some reason the severity of this storm caught them by surprise.

[niener]

AND there are apparently residents in Bham who were supposed to take the ABSITE today -- one I know of left her house over 2.5 hours ago, lives 5 miles away, and still isn't there yet

[Sheherezade]

A long time ago (20 years?) we ran in to a snow event in Jacksonville FL when I was going down to visit family. The bridges and overpasses were iced. They were scraping the road with a flat bed truck put down and backed along the road. The traffic was backed up to Georgia. It was crazy. We saw a whole line of cars slide off the road as they tried one at a time to drive along a curved and iced highway exit. It was comical. They'd end up in the ditch, everyone would get out of the cars in line and push it up on the other side. My DH and I were taking bets on which car would make it without sliding based on the license plates. LOL Canada? No prob. FL? Ditch. It was probably snow tires. Anyway, the point it these states are not prepared for snow. They don't have the equipment. Hope everyone is OK.

[scarlett09]

Got another inch of snow overnight, which wasn't exactly expected - thought it would be more like a dusting. My siblings' school district is closed today; they got several inches of snow overnight. I expect my sister to graduate in July at this point.


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[MsSassyBaskets]

It's like -7, but it's amazingly sunny. Almost sunnier than I have seen here yet. So strange!!!

I think that's normal, at least in my experience. The coldest days in the winter are the sunniest... cloud cover is insulating.

Listening to people panic about an inch of snow is my favorite new form of entertainment.

[niener]

It was a good form of entertainment for me too until too many of my friends and family members had to spend the night in their cars stranded on the highway, in gas stations and grocery stores, in complete strangers houses, separated from their children who had to spend the night in their school gym. The traffic map for Atlanta is comical. Every highway is dark red. In the 30 years I've lived in the south I've not seen anything quite like this.

[diggitydot]

We finally received more than a dusting of snow overnight. We have *maybe* 2-3 inches. It's not much, just enough to be slick going up/down the hill to the hospital at 3am when DH was called in for a delivery.

My friends in the Midwest posted this pic this morning of a major intersection near our old neighborhood:


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