Well, here it comes! This is a first for the Carolinas where -- North and South Carolina entire states will get snow. It looks like Charlotte will get one inch plus. The further west in NC, the more snow fall and ice. But, this weekend, we're back in the 50s for a high! Then next week, we're hit again!

I know Spring is around the corner but it sure doesn't look like it.

Dennis, did you see how far south this snow is going? All the way to southern GA and possibly the tip of north Fla. WOW

bread... check. milk... check. eggs... check. i'm ready for snowstorm nc style. lol

The snow insulates the in ground figs from the freezing cold temperatures at least.  That makes me feel better about it at least.

I am enjoying very nice spring like weather here in Southern British Columbia -- Vancouver/Fraser Valley. However fig wise, it is not good news as the fig plants(in-ground) are showing some signs of bud movement. All we need between now & mid May is a sudden cold snap and it will kill all newly sprouted green shoots/figlets.

Yeap, All southern states will get hit. Jon, Suzi, Harvey and crew are just laughing and grinning! Well, I still love the Southeast.

 Paul you are making me think I live in the wrong part of Canada lol..  Ontario is darn cold! lol

well... school's closed tomorrow... geesh...

Yeap.....here the city is spraying deicer everywhere. Whenever the snow storm comes up I-85, we get hammered for about 2 days. And this one is coming up I-85.

RTP will be like a dead city for next few days if this really hits here... even if it's an inch of snow. if it hits over 4", this area will shut down for a week.

It's weird, but I wish we could have snow.  I don't know or understand your pain.  Snow comes here sometimes, but it doesn't stick.  The flakes are so beautiful coming down.  Soft and silent. 

I wish you warmth!
Suzi

Hope you guys make it okay.  I'm not laughing, Dennis....worried about the fig cuttings I'm sending back there getting frozen in transit! ;)

Southern BC is a great place to live, but usually the summers are not hot enough for me, although growing up in the fraser valley remembering only a short winter does make it more attractive.

growing up in korea and smack middle of flushing, it's still funny how people down here in nc reacts to snow. i mean, i lived in nc longer than anywhere else, but it's still funny. i go to supermarket right before the snow just to see people clearing out the bread and milk. back in college, we had to monitor weather close during winter.. or we won't have any beer to drink if it snowed. i still remember first snow in nc when i got down here. the whole area was like dead. my father and i drove out to his store and the road of solid white snow, wasn't cleaned up even after two days.. everybody were locked in their house and will not come out. 

now it's whole lot better. lot of people from north came down here since. the DOT will actually clear all the road, put on salts.. yeah.. it's not as funny as 30 yrs ago. 

Pete, here's little history why people down here do that.   You see.... its an old Southern "thing".  Back in the day, we use to get hammered with 3 months of snow.  When it snows, we don't scrape the roads to allow cars and trucks to pass.  That's too costly.  That scrapping only creates pot holes and messes up the roads.  Instead, the cities spray salt everywhere.  Years ago, business shops, grocery stores, schools and other businesses use to shut down.  So, in preparation for the shut down, folks would get enough food to last a week.  Why?  Because back then the power use to go out.  I grew up in a small town called Hickory.  North Carolina is full of small towns.  Hickory is one of them and the furniture capital too.  The small towns did not have the money to scrape the roads.  I went to college in Greensboro, NC A&T.  Every back then everything would shut down..

Back in the day (1960s), most small homes in small towns had fireplaces or a pot-belled wood stove.  We had an oil stove and a pot belled stove.  My Mom would sometimes cook on that wood stove.  It was in my bedroom.  I remember cooking apples on it and hated to see Fall come.  Why?   Because my Dad would have a huge load of wood delivered.  I was 7 yrs old and had to move that wood to inside the shed otherwise it would get wet..... and you can't burn wet wood!  As a kid, the only part I did not like about winter was going out to fetch wood from that shed.  It was such a pain!  Once I had to purchase and carry 3 gallons of oil from the local service station all by foot!  It was about 75 yards from my house.  But when you're 7 years old and you have to walk in a foot of snow and carry 3 gallons of oil in a heavy tin oil can...it was something I will never forget! To this day,  I don't know how I was able to carry that oil home.  But I do remember stopping a million times trying not to fall and spill the oil.

And if we ran out of oil to heat the house, we would just add more wood to the stove.  That stove would turn ruby red!  Everyone would sit by the fire and just wait the snow storm out.  That was the way thing were back then and folks here do the same thing today just in case the power goes out.   But its a Southern thing!

dennis, i remember wood burning stoves from back in elementary school in korea. must have been early 70's. but unlike schools, houses in seoul had different heating system. basically coal burning system that warmed about half of the room. coals were delivered so, we never had to go and get them.

tho, walk to the school was not as warm, but we all enjoyed it. typical walk to the school was about a mile. when it snowed in seoul, it would dump good amount.

then nyc. it snowed some in early 80 's. more walk in snow. only difference was tremendous amount of doggie poops hidden under the snow. it was like walking on a minefields. never know when you'll step on a pile doggie poop.

major diffference between seoul, nyc, and down here is no matter how much it snowed, nothing would shut down in seoul and nyc. wait... nyc once did close school due to snow. that winter it snowed so much in such short time, the cars were buried in LI express..

edit: snow was delayed today. it just started snowing about an hour ago. but the school system was shut down whole day... not due to snow, but due to expectation of snow... now that's funny :)

Birmingham got pummeled today in an unexpected snow/freeze! I'm snowed in at work and will likely be here for the night thanks to some crazy gridlock on the hiways--I spent 9 hours, yes 9, trying to get home, finally had to ditch my car on the side of the road and walk back to the office.  Snow days are always chaos for Southerners, but this was a real mess. Glad the fig children are tucked away in their warm little grow room.

Say a little prayer for all the rest of my city-mates, many of whom are still stranded in their cars miles from home.

schools closed tomorrow. this i can understand. we have about 1/8" on the ground and that means multiple pile up on I-40 waiting to happen. and that's on the way to school. one thing i learned early on is, it doesn't matter how well i think i can drive. if the car starts to drift on the snow... i have very little control and i have even less control over what other drivers do.

Driving the folks in SC a little crazy...