Well, it’s official. I am no longer a Northeasterner.
Sure, some mannerisms may remain, and I still like the sports teams, but today I lost all official Northeasterner-ness.
There was about two inches of snow yesterday, and a little ice on the road, but if you were strictly going by the way I reacted, you would have thought it was a blizzard dumping two feet of snow.
To be fair, I’m only reacting the way 90% of the people around DC act whenever this happens, but really it’s a little ridiculous.
It took me 30 minutes to scrape the ice off my car and warm it up, and then 100 feet of unplowed road, but then from there on out it was just fine driving…but here I am, checking weather reports all day yesterday, texting people to find out if work was open, and listening to WTOP (the local news radio station) for my entire drive to get the latest on the slightly slippery roads.
If someone from Massachusetts had seen me and the rest of the DC metro area, they would have laughed.
So true..we suck with snow.
I’m from the Hampton Roads. When they HEARD there was going to be 4 inches of snow they closed schools.
The more south you go the worse it is…
Haha, I remember my sophomore year of High school I got two and a half weeks off due to a total downpour of 5 inches. I love the south!
“If someone from Massachusetts had seen me and the rest of the DC metro area, they would have laughed. ”
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ryan,
We have gotten 50 inches of snow since December. Yes, December 2008. We have had two snow days off of school and one was because the wind chill was below -10. Most of the mornings in January I’ve had to walk the dog in single digit temps. It is 17 degrees this morning and it feels warm. I was filling the bird feeders in a sweatshirt and gloves.
But I still thank God every morning for the beautiful day he has given me!
Love, Aunt Judy