Ice Ice Baby
It appears that we have had some winter weather here in Georgia. If we were in Virginia, this icy weather wouldn’t be enough to shut things down. However, here in the South, where we are not equipped for such acts of God, there are over 277 closings and delays in our county alone. Never mind that the roads are clear, there is ice in the trees, and it is time to panic people. Errands day is going to be much more of a chore than it already is because folks down here don’t know how to drive in winter weather. Sunday, I was driving home from church and it was flurrying, not a flake was sticking to the roads or the trees, and there were drivers, in both lanes, driving no more than 25MPH. I’m as serious as a heart attack; I could have jogged home faster. It’s not their fault; they don’t see enough winter weather to make learning how to drive in it a priority. Plus, the state shuts down and they don’t have anywhere to go anyway – so why bother?
Please pray for me today for safe driving of course, but also, please pray that I won’t lose my temper because of the poky puppies on the road. To be fair, if it were a perfect sunny day and it were rush hour, these poky puppies would be speeding and honking and bobbing and weaving all around me while I try not to wet my pants in the middle of an intersection as I try to gain the nerve to left.
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Here’s hoping the icy roads aren’t too terribly bad!
By the time I went out this afternoon it had warmed up a lot and everything was melted.
With a 12 inch base of snow already on the ground and more coming down every day, the only roads up here that are sometimes clear are the main highways and there’s like only two of them! The rest are always snow covered and will stay that way until sometime in March. Ice, blizzards, whatever…folks up here drive in it. It’s our norm.
You can keep your norm up there.
I assure you that in Virginia/Tennessee we are operating as extremely careful human beings today too. We have a ton of ice, snow and rain all mixed into one. I could not get my car out of the driveway this morning and I imagine the only people on the road have four wheel drive!
I heard the weather up there is really bad right now!