oh, Louisiana
As someone that has spent a great deal of time in full on winter conditions in New Jersey with my family, complete with the lovely fresh beautiful white snow, and the subsequent snirt (snow/dirt, piss snow, black snow, whatever you want to call it, I watch Regis & Kelly and Kelly keeps calling it snirt lol) I am so very incredibly amused at Louisiana's coverage of The Icy Windy Conditions of Untold Horrors that is descending on us tomorrow and Friday. "There might be SLEET!" "The roads may be a bit icy in the early, early morning!" "THERE IS A CHANCE THAT IT WILL GET BELOW 20 DEGREES, ALL SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED, OMG, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE TONS OF BOTTLED WATER AND HAVE YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER!"
Like, Okay, I get it. We're not used to the cold. To us, cold is 60. Freezing is 40. 70 requires a jacket. We are not used to icy roads nor are we used to snow. The fact that it's snowed once a year for the past three years should have given us a bit of perspective though, but apparently it has not.
2 days ago it was 70 here, which is "warm" for how our winters been going (averaging 50's this winter), and today it is 38. Yes, I am breaking out my Jersey wear. My big winter coat with the faux-fur. Yes, I need a beanie, and yes I need gloves.... if I'm going to be staying outside for longer than 15 minutes. I still walk out in short sleeves to bring Boo Boo to the potty though and youd' think I'd gone in-fucking-sane if you saw my neighbors' reactions to that. LOL.
The news loves this though. They are all about The Oncoming Apocalypse. I mean, boy would they be in for a surprise if they transferred to Jersey/New York/etc. "Oh noes, it's ICY on the road, no school, we're all going to freeze to death and die as popsicles!" versus "Meh, it's only a couple of inches of snow, what's the big deal?"
I will give them that it is more dangerous for us down here as opposed to what it normally is for us, being that we're NOT used to snowy/icy roads, so therefore are not outfitted with the correct tires nor do we know what to do if we hit an icy patch, but the solution is slow down, be cautious... not panic and shut down the roads.
Anyway, good luck to those of you in ACTUAL horrible conditions insofar as snow/icy/blizzard weather goes. I'll just be over here perfectly fine laughing at the goons on the news acting like we're Chicago/Michigan/New York/etc.
Like, Okay, I get it. We're not used to the cold. To us, cold is 60. Freezing is 40. 70 requires a jacket. We are not used to icy roads nor are we used to snow. The fact that it's snowed once a year for the past three years should have given us a bit of perspective though, but apparently it has not.
2 days ago it was 70 here, which is "warm" for how our winters been going (averaging 50's this winter), and today it is 38. Yes, I am breaking out my Jersey wear. My big winter coat with the faux-fur. Yes, I need a beanie, and yes I need gloves.... if I'm going to be staying outside for longer than 15 minutes. I still walk out in short sleeves to bring Boo Boo to the potty though and youd' think I'd gone in-fucking-sane if you saw my neighbors' reactions to that. LOL.
The news loves this though. They are all about The Oncoming Apocalypse. I mean, boy would they be in for a surprise if they transferred to Jersey/New York/etc. "Oh noes, it's ICY on the road, no school, we're all going to freeze to death and die as popsicles!" versus "Meh, it's only a couple of inches of snow, what's the big deal?"
I will give them that it is more dangerous for us down here as opposed to what it normally is for us, being that we're NOT used to snowy/icy roads, so therefore are not outfitted with the correct tires nor do we know what to do if we hit an icy patch, but the solution is slow down, be cautious... not panic and shut down the roads.
Anyway, good luck to those of you in ACTUAL horrible conditions insofar as snow/icy/blizzard weather goes. I'll just be over here perfectly fine laughing at the goons on the news acting like we're Chicago/Michigan/New York/etc.