Enough Weather-girl!!!

Unless your cable is out because of it, I'm sure you are aware the that for the second time in less than a month, the South is in the throes of a pretty huge snowstorm. (My favorite nickmame for it so far is "Snowpacolypse 2011").

We're all pretty dang excited about it, especially me because living in SoCal I now see less snow than even before.

I'll admit we Southerners go a little crazy at the mention of snow...suddenly cleaning out the grocery of bread and milk, demanding the closure of school and work for any accumulation over an inch, etc. And because of this we take a lot of ribbing from our Yankee neighbors and Northern trasplants for our silly behavior.

But I have to say, I've been glued to the Weather Channel all day, and Weather-chick is getting under my skin right about now. She's simultaneously covering the "sledding" going on at Piedmont Park and mocking said sleds, which are actually pieces of cardboard, inner-tubes, sheets of plexiglass, and about anything else we can get our hands on that will send us flying down a snow-covered hill. In one of her more southern-moments she remarked she'd "never heard of such!" She also didn't understand why there weren't more snow plows out.

Listen lady. We are sledding down the hill with deflated pool floats because we don't HAVE sleds. We don't want to go to work because we don't know how to drive in the snow. Most of us have never even seen snow-chains or whatever the heck you put on your tires to drive around in this stuff. Our DOT doesn't have snow-plows either. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SNOW HERE!!!! Which you should know, since I'm hoping you went to some sort of weather school or training before they put you on the air.

Thanks for letting me vent guys. Now get back to your snow angels and hot cocoa!