A Story About Snow, Liquor, And The Madness Of Crowds

[liddle_oldman]

Snow again, just the slightest whisper of powder this morning. Though I went down to the coffee shop, and, walking back, hit slick ice on the sidewalk with powder over it, and sent down hard, twice. (I skidded trying to pull myself to my feet.) (Happily, the knee I landed on didn’t skin

Comments

[firynze]

Sounds about right, yep.

Take care of that knee you landed on, Prof! Ice falls are bad!

[saomigray]

I love that the winter weather staples consist of liquor and wine.

Everyone down here in Alabama "knows" we get snowed in about once a decade. The last time was in 1993, so we are about seven years overdue for our next big snow. People here hold their breath every winter believing our luck is about to run out.

Even the thing residents almost universally refer to as "The Blizzard of ninety-three" was really just a heavy snow that took a few days to melt off. Since the big snow happened in March, after spring had officially sprung, it is seen as a thing that can not be predicted and that will happen exactly when you least expect it.

[liddle_oldman]

One of the biggest snowfalls of recent years was the April Fools Storm -- and I've seen serious snow in May. (Branches and trees were down everywhere, because the leaves were already out.) You just never know.

[saomigray]

Our winter staples down here are bread and milk. Because, y'know...milk sandwiches and all.

[miss_prissy]

LOL. I lived through that same blizzard. The snow was up to my mother's knee!!! I was only about 7 though so I hadn't started hanging out at the liquor store yet.

As for us, I got the day off work today. We have 3 inches.

[sarakate]

At least storing the stuff outside is a viable option in those circumstances. The thing that gets me is the people buying that same stuff when there's about to be a HURRICANE here on the Gulf Coast -- which pretty much guarantees it's going to be 90F or more when your power goes out (we actually got frightfully lucky after Ike, in that it was 80F or below for several days following the storm). Also, people buying large quantities of dry pasta and other stuff that has to be boiled in the strictly limited available water always make me boggle.

Do people buy huge quantities of toilet paper before storms up there? They do that here, too, and it always mystifies me -- at least with snow up north, you can actually be stuck for a week or more, but for hurricanes, the storm passes over in a matter of hours, and then if your house isn't livable you can LEAVE and go someplace that HAS toilet paper.

[liddle_oldman]

As you probably know, they're responding to the French Toast Alert System.

[bill_sheehan]

There were bars in Boston that stayed open through the weeklong shutdown caused by the Blizzard. Ah, those were good times. Not like the piddling little storms you kids get today...

FWIW ,

[natevw]

Yes , the average Yankee _does_ simply store the perishables in the snow on the back porch when the power goes out....

I though snow was illegal in Georgia , no ? .

Thanx for the memories Proffesor .

As it turns , I'm a big heavy bastid so I learned many years ago , as soon as you begin to fall , _STOP_ fighting it and fall so nothing breaks ~ you can usualy aim your fall so knees , emblow , face etc. dosn't *SMACK* the hard bits that are always close by when you slip & fall on ice , snow , greasy mud or in the tub/shower (where 90% of all fatal falls occur BTW)