Holy crap, we had snow!

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I live in West Alabama. It doesn't snow here often. We might get flurries or even a half inch or so once a year. It also usually does this at night. Monday night they said that it would snow up to an inch in some areas on Tuesday. Nobody really believed them so everybody got up and went to work. Some people went to school where the schools were open (my county's schools were not). Then it started snowing. Then you could see it on the grass and cars, so they shut everything down. This meant that you had everybody getting on the roads at once, causing huge traffic backups. And the roads started getting icy. It was a huge clusterf**k.

My daughter left her college at about 1130. We live about 30 minutes away. She got home at 5 that evening after sitting for 4 hours in a nonmoving traffic jam. Then they slid off the road right here by the house, but somebody pulled them out.

My husband was all the way in Birmingham and was trying to come up 150 to get on 459 to get home. He sat on Morgan Road waiting to get on the interstate for about 6 hours. He got on it about 6. He got home at about 9. He was an hour away, tops. He slid off the road by the county lake in the work truck. He called his boss to come get him but his boss's kid said he was passed out drunk so he couldn't. Then they called the boy he was working with's grandfather, who came and got them. They left the truck and went and got it yesterday.

There were kids stuck at schools overnight, emergency shelters opened up, all kinds of things because of that.

Things are finally melting but they will freeze again tonight. I think we got about 2 inches of snow, total.

OK Yankees and Canadians, laugh at us. I kind of am.

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Yes, Southerners are always caught off guard by a heavy snow. We usually don't get more than an annual dusting, and that only lasts for a day. I remember the winter of (I believe) 1976-77, my family was living in Alabama and there was a massive ice storm that socked the entire Deep South, all across Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Trees were collapsing by the thousands from the weight of the ice.

And it still didn't kill the kudzu.

We had some decent ice and snow here as well.

Lots of my coworkers stayed at work. I was massively fortunate. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to get home if I stop by the grocery store on the way, and it took me 2 and a half hours. If I hadn't gone to the store, it would have only taken me 30 minutes (usually only takes 15). Many people I know were trapped in their cars for hours/days. I am absolutely thrilled that the power didn't go out.

Thank God I overslept and didn't take Cameron to school that morning. He might still be there if I had.

I was thinking about you all weekend after reading in the online news about the southern American states getting snowed on. I kept on saying to myself, "I hope OliveOilMom is doing okay."