domcomm Loc: Denver, CO

My niece recently moved to Tennessee. She sent this picture yesterday, because they got their first snow. She said all the neighbors were rushing to the store to stock up on food!

will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

Don't look like a lot of snow.

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

I lived in Tennessee for a year. At the first sign of snow, the stores were mobbed .

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Three Feet of Snow Today by Dwight Sipler, on Flickr

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I experienced similar activity when I lived in North Carolina several years ago. People hear snow and they panic.

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

I remember when I first moved to N.C. from N.Y.
I was a bread vendor at the time, and they were calling for about 1/2 to 1 inch of snow,
and my boss make sure to leave extra bread and like you are kidding, right.
Well, I sure learned my lesson, we did get about an inch, wiped everything out.
Still happens to this day, even with as many Yankee's as we have here now,
you just have to see a snowflake and everyone is in a major panic.
But man the money I made then was nice, I loved it when it snowed. lol

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I live in NW Pennsylvania and we have abouv 3 to 4 inches on the ground right now with some on a few streets and roads. I wonder how southerners would react to this on their roadways? I bet they would be closing down entire cities.

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

We've had schools close down for 3 days because of that much snow.....part of the reason for that tho is we are not equipped for that

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Lived outside of Memphis - snow would shut the city down but an ice storm wouldn't even slow them down - made no sense to me...

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

It still all depends.
Snow sometimes means some ahole is going to hit a pole, and electrics are out.
Or a tree snaps a couple wires.
How many days of non perishable food do you have?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Went to a meeting in Atlanta GA in January 2011. It snowed about an inch. Everyone was at work so they just tried to drive around as usual and of course it packed into ice. Even walking was dangerous.

They don't get snow there much and Atlanta is a bit hilly. There was a rumor going around that the city had 5 trucks that could carry sand. One of them had a spreader. The others were sent out with three guys in the back with shovels.

They shut down the city for 3 days. Even the subway stopped running because nobody could get to work. I had a view of an interstate exit and we passed the time watching people trying to get up the ramp. The airport shut down. Three of our guys went to the airport and rented a car to drive back to Boston. No problem for them.

The ironic part of this was that it was an agricultural conference. They had a trade show full of BIG tractors with BIG loaders. Dual wheels, tracks, all designed to go through tough conditions. But they were just displays and had no fuel in them.

I lived in Pittsburgh for a while. At the time it was full of steel mills. Pittsburgh does get snow but the city did not have snow plows. They used salt trucks. If your car rusted out you would buy a new one and keep the steel mills working. It didn't work well when they got 3 feet all at once. My wife had to walk home from downtown, about 3 miles, since the buses weren't running.

Back in those days I had a 4WD truck. I had no problem going up the hills in the snow. However, there were always a thousand cars ahead of me that couldn't make it.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow somewhere else.

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

hahaahhahahaaa

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I realized that, lived in Durham for four years plus was stationed at Camp LeJeune for a couple years. The worst weather there was whe freezing rain hit. Everything covered in a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of slick clear ice. No one can drive on that.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

The north gets some pretty nasty weather too. In December 2010, I had to gor through Buffalo, NY, to take school student yearbook photos. On the way me boss called me and told me to avoid the NY Thruway. No explanation, just ordered me not to get on it. I found out shortly after that cell phone call. Not the best photo attached but gives an idea why I was not to use the thruway. The road was closed for two days, traffic could not move forward or backward. Numerous cars and trucks were stranded. It created quite a problem for Buffalo and NY State.

THe irony was, a few miles north in Niagara Falls, there was almost no snow anywhere. That is the result of "lake effect snow."

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