Snow Day

 

After four straight days of rain this week, the ground was sloppy wet and muddy. Then on the fourth day,Thursday, the rain changed to snow. I didn’t think it could possibly stick with the ground being so saturated from the rain. But the temperature dropped and the moisture on the ground began to freeze, and sleet mixed with the snow. It stuck, alright. But by midday Friday, it had started to melt…slowly. My father used to say that when snow takes a long time to melt, it’s “calling for more,” meaning more snow is on the way. I think the weatherman is actually predicting more snow next week. Around these parts, people don’t know how to drive in snow. There are so many accidents happening. I hear sirens blaring on police cars and EMS vehicles at all hours while it’s snowing. I think it’s comical how one snowflake falls to the ground around here and everyone goes into panic mode. They make a run on the grocery stores for bread and milk and everything else they think they’ll need. Like charcoal and lighter fluid for the grill in case the power goes out. They come out of the store with their carts piled high. They must think they’re going to be snowed-in for the rest of the winter when we’re expecting only one to three inches of snow. And schools close in the blink of an eye because the roads get too dangerous for the busses to run. If this is how it is in Virginia, what’s winter like in places where they get several feet of snow at a time and it lasts for weeks, even months? Do they just take a nonchalant attitude about it and go on? I’ll bet they don’t panic when they see the first snowflake like Virginians do. Look out! A snowflake! The end is near! We’re all gonna die! (*Chuckles*)