Weather Update

Here’s the latest according to Weather.com, which is generally useless in these matters.

Unknown? That’s a first. Are frogs a possibility? How about money? I’d take money over snow!

Here’s the more detailed prediction:

Only one inch of snow. I doubt we’ll get even that much, but again, reports say Atlanta is getting snow and that is a very, very good sign. For a change, I’m not the only one excited about the prospect of snow. Even the newscasters are saying, “I feel like a kid again.” We all seem to be wishing for it and since we all know the Laws of Attraction are true, there’s more proof that we’ll get a good blizzard with all of us wishing so hard for one.

Before a snow storm here there are two hard and fast rules. One is that upon the first utterance of the word “snow” everyone is directed to immediately proceed to the grocery story and load up on groceries. I forgot ! I can’t believe it. I even drove past the grocery store tonight. Our refrigerator is nearly empty too apart from emergency frozen eggrolls and beer.

Rule number two is that the news channels find a Yankee, which isn’t difficult, and interview him to get his take on Charlotte’s reaction to the weather forecast. You can always tell the new Northerners because, predictably, they mock Charlotteans for getting worked up over a couple of inches of snow. What the idiot newcomers don’t realize is that there are plenty of us here from the North. We know how to drive in snow, we just don’t want to drive in snow. We want a damned snow day for a change, and if we all conspire to pretend we can’t remember how to drive in the snow, we might actually get a freaking day off!