Snow Day?

Since we moved down here, when we tell people we are from WI they all say brr you must be used to the cold and snow. Just wait until we get snow here, everything shuts down and all of the stores will be out of milk, eggs, and bread. We weren't sure if people were just over reacting or what, but we were excited to see what was going to happen when we got our first snow.


We woke up on a Tuesday morning and didn't realize it had snowed until we looked outside. There was probably about a half inch to an inch of snow on the ground. We started watching the news and schools were closing left and right. We were curious to see what the roads were going to be like. After i got done scrapping the ice and snow off of the car (glad i kept that snow scraper) it was time to see how the roads were. Not surprisingly people were driving really slow. This was expected, but contrary to popular belief, we did see a snowplow on the road. That was funny, in WI people pass snow plows because you don't want the salt to bounce onto your car and snow plows just don't drive fast enough. Here, there were people slamming on their brakes so they could get behind the snowplow. I have never seen people ride a snowplow the way these people did, unbelievable.

THE BIG SNOW!

At the end of March, we got the big storm. This was the storm of the winter...we got about three inches. But it was the things that led up to the storm and the aftermath. About an hour before the snow was supposed to come we went to the store to get some food for our shrimp soup bread bowls. Now, before we got to the store we had kind of forgotten that people freak out about snow here. We got to the store and didn't think anything of it, then we walked down the bread aisle. The only other time I have ever seen a bread aisle that depleted was when our other local grocery store went out of business, and I walked in there the day before it shut down. People had apparently come and stocked up on the essentials due to the threat of three inches of snow. People down here seriously thought that if it snowed Sunday they might not go out until the following week. Obviously, schools were cancelled the next morning and my work was even on a two hour delay. While I was at work a girl from down here told me I was crazy because I was going to drive to a restaurant during my lunch break. There was still some slush in the intersections, but that was it...I am sooo crazy.