Ok, Im starting to agree with GBH (living in, zip code)

[inave]

I WANT SNOW! I WANT SNOW! I WANT SNOW!

There, now I've thrown my little fit and I feel better!

[jabogitlu]

Now, now, inave, you know better; we have to have at least 48 hours notice to increase milk, toilet paper, tampon and beer shipments, and to allow the ice scrapers and salt trucks to begin their rounds a full day before said forecasts!!!

[bebette]

Originally Posted by LilCabinGirl

YAY! I like 70's. People down here in Florida wear shorts in 70's but that is still a little too cool for me.

Down here in the Keys, we are expecting a major cold front.....it's been 90 for the past three days and suppose to be 88 today but down to the 40's tomorrow night and 71 during the day on Thursday...brrrrrrrrrrr

You can definitely tell the locals from the tourists when it drops to the 70's down here.......the tourists are wearing shorts and tank tops and acting like it's hot......the locals are wearing the standard shorts and sandals, but they're wearing their fleece jackets on top.......it's a funny sight!!!

Thankfully I haven't been down here long enough for my blood to thin so much that I wear fleece when it's in the 70's...........so the cold shouldn't be too much of an adjustment for me!!! But when it's cold - I want SNOW!!!!

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by LilCabinGirl

YAY! I like 70's. People down here in Florida wear shorts in 70's but that is still a little too cool for me. It's going to be tough in the morning though when I'm out walking the doggies in my jammies. Gawd, I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb in Knoxville.

What made you pick Knoxville?

[inave]

Jabo...ain't that the truth. One of the times this year we had a "snow scrare" DH and I went to Food City with our rose-colored glasses on to do our regular weekly shopping. The place was a madhouse and we couldn't figure out why until the cashier told us. I couldn't believe natives got that much in an uproar over the threat of a little winter weather - or that we were dumb enough NOT to!

[LilCabinGirl]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

Wait, 70s is a little too cool for you? Girl, you need to be moving to Honduras, not Knoxville!!!

Well, we were originally looking for land on the sun, but do know how expensive it is?

[LilCabinGirl]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

What made you pick Knoxville?

Because it has a little bit of everything we like. It's not bitterly cold like NJ was but it gets a little snow which is nice. It has four seasons which Florida does not. Plus so much natural beauty and the mountains. Also, Knoxville puts us in a one day drive range of my family in NJ which is better than the two days it takes from Florida.

We moved to Florida looking for something different and we found that it really isn't for us. Sometimes it takes being somewhere else to appreciate where you come from.

[bebette]

Originally Posted by LilCabinGirl

We moved to Florida looking for something different and we found that it really isn't for us. Sometimes it takes being somewhere else to appreciate where you come from.

LilCabinGirl, you are absolutely right!!! I never appreciated 'four seasons' until we moved to the Keys and have only ONE SEASON.....HOT!!!! I do enjoy wearing shorts and sandals, but I also miss my sweaters and miss the smell of fresh cut grass and the smell of burning leaves in the Fall. Just 32 more days and we can experience 'Spring in the Smokies'

The biggest part for me is being so far from family......it's a two day drive now and when we move to the Knoxville area, I will be within a days drive of all of my family...........except of course, my son who is stationed in Iraq

[gemkeeper]

Originally Posted by inave

Jabo...ain't that the truth. One of the times this year we had a "snow scrare" DH and I went to Food City with our rose-colored glasses on to do our regular weekly shopping. The place was a madhouse and we couldn't figure out why until the cashier told us. I couldn't believe natives got that much in an uproar over the threat of a little winter weather - or that we were dumb enough NOT to!

The real problem with a little winter weather here in the southeast isn't the fear of an inch or two of snow, inave. It is the serious threat that the temperature will be hovering around freezing and we will get either freezing rain (the worse), sleet or snow on top of rain, which will freeze into a brick.

Up north, it isn't such a big deal, although everyone makes a run to the grocery store anyhow just so they don't have to go out in a foot of snow and slush. Yuck!

We northerners are used to driving on snowy roads all winter, but even the hardiest of us will do anything to avoid driving on ice. That's what you generally expect in the SE. No fluffy snow - just slippy, slidey ICE!!

Every time a winter storm is forecasted for our N. GA area we park the cars down the hill on the cul-de-sac. If we didn't there would be no way we would ever get our cars down the drive the next morning without pick-axing it first!

[Bones]

Originally Posted by inave

I WANT SNOW! I WANT SNOW! I WANT SNOW!

There, now I've thrown my little fit and I feel better!

Jabo...ain't that the truth. One of the times this year we had a "snow scrare" DH and I went to Food City with our rose-colored glasses on to do our regular weekly shopping. The place was a madhouse and we couldn't figure out why until the cashier told us. I couldn't believe natives got that much in an uproar over the threat of a little winter weather - or that we were dumb enough NOT to!


Inave, as Gem has pointed out - it's the ice that is the problem. I'm out in the boondocks and would be cut off to get to main roads to town which would be salted. So I keep supplies on hand for over a week. They tell me not too long ago it was nothing to be without power for 5-7 days at a time.

Snowing on the plateau now and we may get 1-3"......