Snow In SC?
It’s always entertaining to watch South Carolina’s local TV stations and government bureaucracies prepare for “slush days,” you know, since it never snows here in any amount worth mentioning.
Basically, here’s how it works … if skies are cloudy and the temperature is forecast to drop below 32 degrees, all hell breaks loose in the Palmetto State.
Everybody cancels everything, and yet for some reason we still get to sit through an endless litany of schools, government agencies and churches that are closed for the day.
Seriously, why not just say – “everything’s f*cking closed?”
Because it is.
Or here’s an idea – list the three government agencies “crazy” enough to open their doors when it’s forty-five degrees and muddy outside.
Because that’s what happens every time snow is forecast for this state … it ends up being forty-five degrees and muddy.
Or 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
Comments
By Mike on March 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pm
The only thing worse is suffering through the TV weather (and news desk) antics during every single day of hurricane season while living at the beach. Tropical wave forms off of the West African coast, you say? Let’s have continuous coverage of that puppy until it fizzles out somewhere, along with hourly, patently ridiculous predictions with “cones of uncertainty” that are most often three or four states wide. I didn’t do my grad work in meteorology, but I bet I could get to within a few states of being right most of the time…
PS- Instead of all the morons buying milk and Pop Tarts like nuclear winter will be upon us, it’s duct tape and plywood at the beach. Same people, though.
By Nettie on March 1st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
USC does NOT close! For anything! Last time it snowed I HAD TO DRIVE FIVE MILES! IN THE SNOW! TO GET TO SCHOOL!
By Preston McLaurin on March 1st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
So true. Don’t you just love it when all you hear for days is “Beware, the Storm approaches!” Buy all the bread and milk! And, because they predict it, it doesn’t happen. Here’s an idea, next time surprise us. Or at least wait until there is at least one lousy snow flake before closing down the town.
By Jeffrey Sewell on March 2nd, 2009 at 6:02 am
Hey, come on man… Local cat chases local dog gets replaced by “me might have snow and total local government collapse…
By Silly Educrats on March 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 am
So I can see why the educrats called an early “inclement” weather day last time in January………it was Obama’s inauguration day and I’m pretty sure that they were not planning on teaching math that day anyway. As for calling for more “inclement” weather and closing all the schools yesterday at 4pm…… did I miss a twitter update about Obama in town????
By James the Foot Soldier on March 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
Why expect these morons to exhibit sound judgement on a task as basic as waking up a little earlier and looking out the window to see if the roads are slick when they exhibit poor judgement day by day?
Any ideas on how to infuse some testosterone into the system?
By Brian on March 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I went home to Greenville (from Newberry College) in the late afternoon, on Sunday. I had two friends traveling with me, and when we went over this hill in Clinton, it went from the usual South Carolina “snow” weather, to a winter wonderland. I felt like I was driving up to Canada. By the time we got to Greenville, EVERYTHING was covered by snow and ice. I still got a snow man in my truck bed. It made it all the way back to Newberry, after driving down the highway. People were taking pictures and freakin out, because there was no snow on the ground ANYWHERE, except in my truck bed. It was a good storm, if you were in the right place.