White Christmas, No Dreaming Required

[layniek]

We got 9 inches of snow where I live in Oklahoma. Just so you know, that doesn't happen here; we close schools if the forecast shows any snow. The news channels have been going on and on telling people to stay home and what to do if they're stranded in their cars. (Yes, these are the kinds of things we don't know here, because it really never

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[dmjones]

Wow, Laynie, that really sucks. I mean, nine whole inches, I just *snerk* can't imagine *snort* so much *smirk* snow....

Just for perspective's sake, here in Central New York, snowfall is usually measured in feet, not inches.

And yes, I get how dangerous it is in a place where people don't routinely stock up on snow tires, power-outage kits, rock salt and the like, and it's damn scary to people who aren't used to it. But while my adult brain understands this, my frozen hind-brain can't stop chortling, when not outright guffawing, at the thought of an entire citizenship brought to their knees by nine inches of snow.

Know what we call that here? We call it April.

[layniek]

*snerk* Yeah, I know! We used to live in Kansas, and the reactions to frickin' *snow flurries* when we moved to Alabama were hilarious. But people are morons about snow here. People don't know how to drive in it, but they do it anyway, and then they wonder why there's a fucking fifty-car pileup in Oklahoma City (trufax, btw). I spent yesterday mocking the reporters whose job is to go stand out in the middle of closed interstates and tell other people not to do what they're doing.

Since you're loving the whole "snow measured in inches" thing--Oklahoma City got 12-14". One of the news stations has dubbed this "Blizzard 2009". They've got a graphic and everything.

[dmjones]

Ha ha! Here in good ol' CNY we just call it "Halloween".

[layniek]

Hmm...I believe it was around 65 degrees on Halloween. I went out to see Zombieland and I was wearing a t-shirt. :-P