No Need to Freak Out

It’s been almost exactly two years since we had snow here in Durham, NC. I had to look through my photos to figure that out. Thankfully I photograph the most mundane things.

Two years and it was barely a dusting then. Now it is snowing and it came exactly when they said it would. I was on the phone with my friend Jan, who lives a couple of miles south of me. While we were talking she said it had started there. Sure enough about five minutes later it started here. It was after four in the afternoon.

They canceled school in our town today because of this tiny snow that started after school would have gotten out. The fear of snow is so paralyzing to southerners. It is quite ridiculous.

I drove by the grocery store after having lunch with Lynn and Christy and saw that the parking lot was more full that the day before Thanksgiving. Christy said she went to the store yesterday at 7:45 in the morning, before the big rush of milk and bread buyers. She had one of her favorite cashiers and Christy asked her if people were kind to her during these pre-snow shopping panics. The cashier said, “no.” Christy thanked her for working and being kind every time Christy shops. Christy is one of the always kind ones who all cashiers love.

I waited a little too long to try and get a picture of the snow, but the sun had already gone down. You can’t really see the tiny flakes we are getting. I am thankful they are flakes and not ice. I hope that it stays cold all night so it just keeps snowing and doesn’t turn to something worse.

We can’t complain about snow when LA is burning. If only they could get precipitation and no wind.

So to all my southern readers, I hope you are snuggled up in a warm home with plenty of bread and milk, whether you eat those things or not. And to the rest of the world who wonders why real southerners freak out over a dusting of snow, I have no answer for that. The one thing I wish is that southerners would not lose their humanity when it snows. Please treat all the people who continue working through the weather well. Be a Christy.