Snow Southern Style
Nashville is having a snow storm…which translates in real life to Nashville had some snow fall.
They have been talking about it for a week. This impending blizzard. It will shut down the city…we need food, we need water, we need to shut down EVERYTHING!
Tuesday night (aka the night before it was all to take place) there was a run on grocery stores. Stores were out of milk. There were lines 15 deep at the deli counter. I heard from one of the Publix employees that it looked like Toys R Us the day before Christmas.
Tuesday night came…no snow. But time ticked away and everyone stayed glued to the Snowbird report and their windows. No snow fell. 91 schools did though. Not an ounce of snow and they closed 91 schools.
When I woke up at 5:45 am the next morning (I am not working, why am I waking up at such an ungodly hour???) I asked Jay if there was no snow on the ground. “Nope. Nada,” he said.
Snowbird is our local news station’s school closing mascot. They actually have a mascot for the school closings. I know it is the south and they are football obsessed, but a mascot for something that only happens 2-3 times per year? I went downstairs and looked at the Snowbird site. Our school was opening an hour and a half late. Ok. That works.
We made a morning out of it and went to Chilck-Fil-A for breakfast. Yum! I lollygagged around school for awhile and then headed home.
On the radio, I heard someone say that it was snowing, it just was not hitting the ground. Way to go meteorologists!
At lunchtime, when I was going to meet Becky, Tom and Jay for lunch, I crawled from Franklin to Nashville. The snow started to fall. Not much fell but it was enough to justify the fear and the excitement of the white stuff! It was also enough to cause accidents galore. I saw one on a hill where a car careened off into the ditch. I heard there were over 100 reported in Nashville, including police cars.
I made it home safe and sound and then went to my interview (fingers crossed).
I woke up this morning to school being closed along with every other school in the area. I posted on Facebook that school was closed for an inch of snow and was corrected that it was only a centimeter. I responded that I had not wanted to give the snow a complex.
Here is my favorite picture of yesterday, from the Walgreen’s parking lot. I feel like it summarizes this experience best.
Snow Southern Style
So…what are your snow stories from the Blizzard 2010???
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