Southerners are too lazy to like snow!

[UrbScotty]

We Northerners enjoy something called 'snow.' We drive through it, watch it fall, shovel it...

Southerners, OTOH, refuse to enjoy snow. Whenever it snows, they cower like Bush reeceiving his draft notice.

</sarcasm>

Just kidding. I like the South.

[Don_G]

1. It's That Weird Yankee Stuff

Birmingham once got a quarter-inch of snow and it paralyzed the city for a day. There's not a big demand for snow tires there.

[BlueJazz]

2. I remember living in Minneapolis and.....

getting "The Rush"

That's when you're driving down a road and start to stop and feel
your tires just (La-Ti-Da) sliding all over the place and you know
the person in the car in front of you is saying many, many prayers
that you'll be able to stop in time!!

No, thank you!

[UrbScotty]

3. Is your Governor a Democrat or a Republican?

I remember having a Republican governor.

No, thank you.

[BlueJazz]

5. I'll have you know.....

...I've got the best Governor in the country...Jim Hightower....
...I'm lying though my hat....I've got Jeb Bush...sob...sob...sob!

Actually, the election of Norm ColdMan played a part in me leaving Minnesota. God, I'll never understand how the good people of that state
could have elected such an idiot.

[annak110]

4. In Oklahoma it might be 80 degrees F and raining and suddenly

a "norther" will hit, the temperature will drop to 20 and leave a fairly thick ice coating on the roads. Then it will snow and that provides traction except where it blows off the road. Oklahoma City used to send out motor graders to push the snow away cleverly leaving the ice. Oh well, they didn't have snow plows and snow removal machines. Then, and this is the real problem, all the people would run out, get in their cars to see if they could drive in the stuff. They couldn't.

People in southwestern Oklahoma always thought snow fell horizontally.

Besides its a mess almost immediately.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Some parts of the South get snow

Here in the Arkansas Ozarks, we get enough snow to shut down things for about a week. Don't get me wrong-I don't mind snow. I do mind the fact that the state highway departments down here have no clue how to properly plow/salt/sand roads. And the roads are often banked backwards, so one tends to slide off mountains when it gets bad. We also get lovely ice storms (far more than I experienced in my 38 years in Illinois) which tends to bring down trees over roads, which one has to cut up and move themselves.

[amazona]

7. in 1989 it snowed

I can prove it did, I still have pictures.

My palm tree turned brown but it's OK now.

[SheilaT]

8. What I liked best about living in

Minneapolis (for the short time I lived there) was that the perception it was snowy and cold nine months of the year tended to keep out the riff-raff. Just a joke of sorts. LOTS of nice people live in the South and everywhere else in our wonderful country.

When I lived in Phoenix, Arizona, what bothered me the most was that so many people there seemed to think that now that they didn't have to shovel snow off their cars in the middle of winter, all of their problems were solved. Now I'm the first person to agree that not having to shovel snow off the car in winter is quite wonderful, but it's not the only thing that contributes to the quality of life.

And it's much worse, as far as I'm concerned, to live where freezing rain is more likely to occur which is awful, awful stuff.

Personally, I like the change of seasons, I like warm weather, cold weather, snow, rain, sunshine, just not all the same.

[Racenut20]

9. We are smart enough not to put up with it. Darn loud lawnmowers.......

[bamademo]

10. Snow shuts down Alabama

We have cancellations, the grocery stores run out of bread and milk (I always buy wine and cigarettes :evilgrin:)and smartass yankees in 4 wheel drives run off the road because they think they can drive 60 MPH in the snow. Newsflash. You can't. The snow melts, freezes again and forms a thick crust of ice. We have a couple of snow plows here in Huntsville but it's the black ice that will get ya.