It cracks me up that no matter where you are in the US, as soon as catastrophic weather is predicted, the stores sell out of bread, milk and eggs. Apparently french toast is the official food of weather disasters.
Ever notice that bread, milk, and eggs are spread out in the grocery store? It's because they're needed for so many things that chance are, any shopper is going to need at least 2. By spreading them out, you walk through more of the store and are more likely to but other things. So yeah, people buy those 3 staples.
Just the bread and milk around here. And it’s for sandwiches and cereal because there’s a high chance your power is going out too and you can eat sandwiches if you’re tired of canned food. The milk is for kids, since we all know they can live on cereal. Bonus, you can stick the milk out in the imaginary snow bank to keep it fresh.
I lived in Nashville for years and one day it started sleeting in the middle of my shift at work. Our family only had one car, so my wife had to come get me when the day ended. I am not exaggerating when I say that she counts the one night she drove 5 miles on slightly icy roads as her greatest driving accomplishment. It happened in 2011 and she STILL talks about it.
And I will assume your point is that you kiss that precious lady every day of your life with love and gratitude 😉~ you're welcome from a happily married wife of 32 yrs (yes, tothe same fella, lol) 🤣
I live in Boston and I know your infrastructure is way different but it always makes me giggle to hear southerns talk about snow and how they can’t drive in it. We measure it in feet not inches.
-10 degrees F is "nipply"....anything further negative has a "bite"....you enter the -40 then you start to bundle up, dress in layers, talk about frostbite, and worry if you need to tent your car and have a propane heater so it will start
@@jesshorn257exactly. 20+ is hoodie weather, down to -10 is shirt and jacket, and below that is hoodie and winter jacket. It's so funny to me seeing southerners complain about the "cold" when up here it would be considered nice. I mean, 60° is perfect weather, especially in the sun.
@@theEWDSDS .. it's in the 60s now and I have my heater on. I'm also wearing a hoodie. They said it was supposed to be in the 70s all week.. 70s & 80s is nice weather :)
That's deep south weather. They don't even get winter. Wait till you find out kentucky alternates winter and spring. It was 20 degrees last night my easter lily's have frost on them and it's supposed to be 50 at noon. It was seventy degrees last week and there was still snow on the ground in the shade. The weather so weird around here the snakes wear jackets
My family moved to Middle TN from Michigan when I was 6. We used to just kinda hang our heads a bit low with no real come back when our family up north would talk trash about southerners closing everything in winter and how they can't drive in it. Well... I made a very strong realization several years ago. Yeah, in Southern Michigan it's relatively easy to drive in snow and ice - the whole topography is pancake flat and all the roads are straight unless it's to go around a lake. You can literally see the curvature of the earth! So if someone up there hits some ice they gonna slide for a bit and unless they hit something they are gonna be perfectly fine. Now... Here in Middle TN, if there is ice your car is probably gonna go flying off the edge of a cliff and end up in some holler about 150 feet down, and ain't nobody gonna find you til maybe mid spring. If you are on anything other than an interstate and it's icy out you. will. die.
Michigander, here. Went through Kentucky when it snowed a couple years back in January while trying to get to the Nashville area. It was the WORST roads I've ever been on. Our van did a 360 on 65 while going 30. Straightened back out and kept going. It took 8 hours just to go from Louisville to Elizabethtown where we took a break for the night. We're still traumatized every time we get to the steep hills on 65 and remember that day.
The coldest day in the area where I live last years was -31.4c so -24.52f that was 125km northeast of Toronto or 78 miles. I get that their not use to the cold but I would love to see someone from the south last a minute in that with full winter gear.
@@Warlover1015 I lived in the mountains of Vermont for 16 months. The temperature with wind chill was well below that. I was born and raised in south Georgia and I loved it. I survived it easily thanks to God and some good people up there that taught me what to wear. One lady even gave me a down filled long coat that belonged to her late uncle (an expensive one I found out later). I was caretaker to an author's property for free rent in the 12x14 foot cabin, and part of my job was to pull snow of the main house roof and shovel from the door to her car. I wish I still lived up there.
@@eaglerider1826 And now you're one of the only countries in the world that uses incorrect measurements. And the weirdest thing about your comment is.... you actually sound like you're bragging that you never learned something.....
North Alabama here. In the Army the topic came up about how our respective areas respond to snow/ice (it gets real boring sometimes). When it came for my response, I said that we have a simple solution. We do nothing. We wait. It melts. NEVER DRIVE WHEN SNOW OR ICE IS ON THE ROAD. You may be able to do it, but we cannot. Roll Tide.
Yep, as a lifelong Southerner raised by Northerners my parents raised me to understand that you NEVER drive in the snow/ice in the South ... not because of precipitation, but because of the other drivers.
As a GA native with a long career in the Army, Fort Drum New York was an eye opener and training ground for my current life in Michigan. At Ft Drum, it was usually us Southern boys in the ditch… and all those still driving the muscle car with All Season tires.
I was a student at The University of Alabama during the Blizzard of '93. The midnight snowball fight on the quad was truly epic. Downed trees make for great bunkers. Also, you haven't thoroughly buried someone's car in snow unless you've packed a stack of snowballs covering the full height of the antenna. Attention to detail is important, y'all.
Sorry for that snowball to the back of your head. I was there on the quad for that. I was visiting a friend who was a student at Bama. Loved seeing the guys that came out there with a three man snowball slingshot.
@@bamachine Y'all're absolute legends! I'm sorry I missed it! (I was born in 1994. :( Though I didn't luck out on the huge ass Texas freeze of 2021. That was WW2 and there were absolutely NO fun moments during that at all! )
@@Michael_B82 Same but Mississippi, the week of closed school (couldn't just have most of the snow melted, it had to be 100% gone or the buses couldn't make to the houses on gravel roads) was like a second Spring Break. But I also 2nd @TheOReport1994 You can't go out and play in the snow and enjoy it when the power's been out for days because it's only fun if you know you can warm up when you come back in.
As a southerner that has been living in Wisconsin for 7 years, I'll tell you a secret, they can't drive in it either. Everytime it snows, there are numerous accidents and people off the road. We had a 133 car pile up a few years ago on the interstate near my home.
That happens when Wisconsin gets 6 or more inches of snow. And yes, lots of folks in accidents because they have experience driving in 1-2 inches and thinking they can handle all kinds of snow. And those amounts would absolutely shut down a southern state for days (assuming it didn't hit 60 degrees the day after)
Only the first snow of the season. For some reason, it takes almost going in the ditch for people to remember how to drive in the stuff. Which does not bode well in pretty much any part of Iowa tomorrow!
I can't possibly imagine a 133 car pile up! I truly hope you were able to avoid that nightmare. We may not get a lot of snow in the South, but we have several instances of black ice that will give heart attacks to everyone unfortunate enough to encounter it.
@@blackdragoness21 I was at home, luckily. It was sad, one young man lost his life. We had powdery snow and high winds so, it caused a whiteout. Of course, people were driving too fast for the conditions. It's snowing now, I hate snow. Lol, I was born and raised in Alabama.
I worked at a locally owned grocery store.....and it is down right terrifying when the little old ladies storm the store when the forecast says it's gonna snow.....those sweet little things turn into demonic entities!!!
Mississippi and Alabama shares a snow plow. 😂 We do have some fun in Mississippi & Alabama when it snows which means ice, like when we hook metal row boats to trucks and drive really fast with people in it on a highway. I’m surprised I survived my childhood.
I was in Florida during snowmageddon 2014! Despite years living in Newengland it was the most spectacular winter experience I have had. There was one storm where it somehow managed to rain at about 25 deg out so all the trees grew a dazzling collection of icicles in a matter of minutes and all the "hills" grew an angry collection of low speed vehicle collisions. If you have never seen a lifted truck gently drifting sideways down the road it is a magical experience.
@@deathpyre42no, because now you’re dealing with old people on ice who never wanted to be on ice again. You tell a disgruntled geriatric to drive safe instead of squinting at their smart phone while driving at least 20mph over or under the speed limit and see how they respond. And I mean that 20 over or under thing. There is no in between for them. You’re dealing with a grandma who is either too blind to see the road and so she keeps it at a crawl, or grandma who’s realized she doesn’t have much longer to live anyway and wants to take a few people with her while flipping them all off.
I think I vaguely remember this, though from what I do remember, it was never supposed to go further south than the Atlanta area. My family and I were visiting my grandparents in Illinois for the season and then the news of a major snowstorm hit, and we had to hit the ground running as quickly as we could. Apparently that was also the same winter my mom remarked that the winds were so strong it slid our car off as we were driving up to Wisconsin.
@@jimson_weed45 A UA-camr I like who's from the Houston area even mentioned how it snowed once in Texas, and the entire state broke, referring to this of course. Aside from the fact that it's a Pokemon video, since that's just what he does, I don't quite remember the video where that's said.
Last year we went to Michigan in October and on Halloween night, it snowed about three inches. The residents seemed annoyed but my family and I were ECSTATIC! We got our thickest coats on, double layers of socks and hats and gloves and played behind the motel. We were video calling our family back home and hollering and praising Jesus. We live in the DEEP South. Around New Orleans. We hadn’t seen snow since January of ‘21 and that was way up in North-East Mississippi. Getting to actually play in the snow like regular folks was AWESOME! We made snow angels, had snowball fights, and built a four-foot-tall snowman named Frank. WE HAD ENOUGH FOR FOUR FEET! It only lasted about an hour but it’s a memory I ain’t never gonna forget. 😊 Edit: I removed the part about things staying green down here. I hadn’t been outside in a while but I went out today and saw how dead it all looked. So never mind lol.
Anyone else out there do the upside-down trash can lid because your parent's wouldnt buy a sled to use two days out of the year?😂 I also remember that storm in 1993, power AND SCHOOL were out and we grilled everything, lol I thought it was like camping but these days I'd probably lose my mind.
1993. We got over 20 inches of snow that in blizzard. School was closed for a week because it was near the end of the season and our town ran out of sand and salt.
Wyoming Native here. Winter is Sept-June. Have had snow on 4th of July. Great thing about winter is no snakes, no mowing, and the dog poo is frozen so you don't have to worry about tracking it into the house😂
when I lived in Boston, heaps of snow would pile up along the sidewalks. There were literally strata of dog and cat poop due to new snow shoveled on top of the old snow. It was hilarious
I live about 20 miles north of Charlotte. Believe it or not, when the weatherman on TV mentions "snow", it's not the country people that were born and raised here that panic, but all the Northerners and Californians that have moved in around Lake Norman over the past 30 years that go into "headless chicken" mode. I'm thinking it must be PTSD from all those Northern blizzards they had to live thru. It used to be great fun watching them mob Lowes and Home Depot, snatching up every portable generator, heater, and propane bottle in sight - that is, until a few year ago, when Lowes and Home Depot got tired of them bringing back all that stuff they bought for the "snow emergency" but never used, to get their money back, and having to ship all that crap back to their warehouses - they finally came out and said "You bought, you own it, deal with it". My 86 year old mother's only response when this happens is "Well, no sense going to the grocery store for a few days, those Yankees are going to mob the place and clean out every loaf of bread and gallon of milk".
I'm in NC too, east of Raleigh. It's insane to me how quickly the weather man will mention "the possibility of snow," and that possibility is like 4%. And everyBODY talks about it like it's gonna happen, and be bad. At this point I feel like they know they wield some power with the word "snow" and will say it just to watch people panic about "snow."
I live in the mountains of NC, and I agree with everything you just said as well. 😂 I worked in a grocery store near a ski resort and all of the out-of-towners would flood the place at the mention of snow.
Well you live in Lake Norman, you are surrounded by a lot of people who have enough money to panic buy a lot of dumb crap. Not EVERYONE has money but a lot of people sure do
I will say, the worst are the actual local drivers. *Nobody* knows how to drive in actual ice. Not a single fucking person. However, this is easily counterbalanced by the fact that nobody wants to leave their houses, so the number of people on the road drops significantly. Which mostly leads to most accidents having just been people skidding off the road at notable turns. Of course, this is Texas, so stocking up is actually a thing we have to do now since the chucklefucks in charfe have done shit to put any pressure on fixing the power grid. It's having issues handing the heat in summer. Y'know, the one thing Texas has been dealing with since before our grandpa's grandpa's grandpa was born.
In Georgia, if the weatherman even mentions in passing that there MIGHT be a few snow flurries coming, I believe it's law that you must go to the grocery store for milk, eggs, and bread; then to the gas station for gas. We get mostly ICE. Either freezing rain or sleet, or a combination of snow, sleet, and freezing rain. The good part is it only lasts a couple of days. And since it lasts so short a time, we just take a day off and enjoy it. It's great spending time with the kids playing in the snow. When I was in Geneva, New York, I loved when it snowed, but after a couple of months of nothing but snow, and how dirty and ugly the sides of the roads were because of whatever they put down and plowing it off to the side, I was sick of seeing snow. And after watching several seasons of "Heavy Rescue 401," I've realized that you northerners can't drive much better than us southerners. My best friend even crashed his car when he hit a patch of black ice. He couldn't drive on ice and he was from New York. Ice is just about all we get in Georgia.
That's not a fair criticism because New Yorkers can't drive, period. And I'm from NE Ohio (in the Snow Belt), and we used to always say that people in Southern Ohio can't drive in the snow. And sure enough, that was demonstrated when I drove south to Marietta during an ice storm. Everything was fine until I got to Cambridge, which is about 45 minutes north of Marietta. Then SUV's and pickups started flying by the people who driving cautiously. And then we saw those SUV's and pickups after the ran off the road into the median. But now the whole state gets less snow, due Climate Change. So, virtually everyone is less skilled (but at least many people still know to slow down).
We moved from Pennsylvania to Florida for 2 years when I was a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to wear the summer uniform and maybe a jacket on the way to school during the dead of winter while everyone else was bundled up like Nanook of the North.
Hahaha. It reminds me of a sign at the local nursery. "The great freeze of 2024 is upon us. Buy your frost cloth here!" That's our biggest worry in the desert. Keeping the cactus alive.....
I live in magnolia and when it snowed they just brought in a bulldozer to push snow off the highway and it just knocked all the middle reflectors in the ditch and backs the freezing rain/ice/snow to the road lol
One thing you forgot to mention is that southern winters are WET. It makes a difference. In the north the weather gets way colder but it's a dry cold that parkas, gloves, thermal underwear and some exertion can easily beat. The only obstacle then is cold weather gear claustrophobia if you're not a northerner. But a damp cold - especially a southern cold front that can't decide between freezing rain and slushy snow - can crawl into all but the warmest clothes and chill you to the bone. Stay out in that weather long enough and it will wear away at your sanity.
THIS! My cousins from Michigan visited me in Texas and kept going on and on about how they couldn't believe how cold it felt despite not being freezing. I kept telling them it's the DAMP that gets you.
I love seeing folks that think only the south gets ice storms. They must think New England goes from summer straight to winter and there is some magical line just north of Virginia that makes it impossible to get any precipitation in the form of freezing rain. The south is not special in this regard. Winter can be dry or wet, depending on how cold it is.
That is so true! I have a friend from New Hampshire that move down here to Tampa... So it got about 30 something degrees a few winters ago. Which is sort of normal. And she said it is freezing down. Here! I said yeah it's winter? But she didn't realize that the wetness goes right through you...
@@rriggs6547winter in Pittsburgh is very cold but that's because it's wet cold as well.... It's not as wet up in New Hampshire or Connecticut. Not that it doesn't get cold... That wetness goes right through you.
Thank you for validating that a Toboggan is a hat here in the south. My Yankee husband for Wisconsin still gets a good laugh out of my wearing a sled on my head. I think we saw a Toboggan in the Winter Olympics and just really wanted to say that word 😂
I thought everybody called it a toboggan until I went to college in Florida and made friends with a girl from Montana. I just assumed it was called a toboggan because that’s the kind of hat you wear when you go sledding on a toboggan! Made sense to me! 😂
I'm from Las Vegas and now live in Rural GA with my husband - I always give him a hard time about the toboggan. 😹 It's a ski hat, man! The first time he said it, it really took me awhile to understand what the heck he was talking about!
LOL MATT!! This is SO TRUE!! 😂😂 In Texas, if they call for ice, I am calling in to work. Period!! One time when I worked at an undisclosed monopoly telephone company, they gave the people that risked their lives to come in to work in a literal ice storm the following; 2 free slices of pizza, & a laminated paper badge that said “I am a storm trooper” SERIOUS!! No thank you, I was happy to stay at home, warm in my onesie, with my blanket & some campbell’s bean & bacon soup. 😂😂😂
I just spoke to my daughter who is north of Austin (originally from MI). She is out running errands because she knows the roads will be empty. Weather warnings for freezing temps-but no precipitation-and everyone is staying home because they are afraid of ice. She can’t convince them that without any wet stuff there won’t be ice, lol.
I learned the meaning of winter when i moved from my home town of San Antonio, Tx to Oscoda, Mi. A record breaking blizzard that year. I didn't know that was possible outside of the Arctic!
I survived Ice Storm '93 and still remember my dad driving our go-cart around the front yard while my brothers and I held on to the back while in an old baby wash tub. And using that same tub as a sled to go down the big hill in our neighborhood.
As a northerner who loves the cold temperatures and hates being hot temperatures, I can safely say you’re right about us complaining about temperatures over 80 degrees up here. Honestly if it’s cold outside we can layer our clothes and winter gear but when it’s hot we can only get to a t shirt or tank tops and shorts before we hit the point of no relief.
45 degrees? "It's freezing out there!" is anything below 65. Winter of 93 I was in DC with a bunch of Yankees and I was sure I would never see my family again. I'm pretty sure they still talk about the look on my poor Texas face when I saw the wall of snow. Now the Savannah Snow Fall of 2018 was something to see.
Years back when I was driving a truck, heard this on a radio station in Nashville, TN: ''Winters in Tennessee aren't that bad, if we didn't have to share our only snowplow with Kentucky and Alabama''. And I had a gentleman from Georgia tell me that they one snowplow in their state, and it was at the Atlanta airfield. 👍
This is hilarious! I love to see all the different perspectives of living on Earth. Blizzard of '93. 12' drifts, and a 500' driveway. We didn't see a plow for 2 weeks, but I still had to get to school after the 3rd day. 🥶
My part of Kentucky handles snow pretty well. Now when it snows at the same intense pace for about 18 hours or if we get an ice storm, that's when it goes full apocalypse mode
It cracks me up how we handle school closures in KY. I always knew as a kid if my school would be closed by which *other* counties were closed. And they do treat state roads pretty well, but once I moved out to the boonies I realized that I had been spoiled. It takes ages for our county and side streets to get treated. Then we can't even make it to the store for a doomsday prep.
@@moonkenzie In my part of KY (just north of the freeze line) our roads would thaw and refreeze daily. There was a hill with several switchbacks between our high school and the northern county line. That hill is risky in high summer! The Assistant Superintendent of schools lived at the bottom of that hill. Every morning he got up at 4 am and tried to drive up that hill. If he couldn't get past the first switchback, we did not have school. Partly because of risk, but about 1/3 of the student body of the high school was north of the hill. We would lose our state education $$ for that day if our attendance dropped below a certain point. Add in all the snowbound houses at the end of long driveways and all the unimproved farm roads and there was just no point. My senior year we were out 2 solid weeks for snow, ice and cold temps.
I grew up in Michigan, dealt with 6 months of gray days and purple nights(turns out that’s the color of clouds at night in winter), and then I moved to Florida. I don’t miss the snow even a little bit! I love going outside in shorts and a T-shirt, I love the sunlight, and I don’t even mind the trade off of it being hotter than Satan’s jacuzzi in the summer!
I miss the snow but I do love the fact that its sandals weatherpretty much all year. Not sure if I like the heat and humidity part of the trade off because I got heatstroke the first summer I moved out here. My husband's poppop decided we should all go to a real baseball game outside in the great South Carolina sunshine...
As someone from Arkansas, we rarely get ice or snow but when we do, god damn. Yesterday, it snowed and that's when I thought the world was ending. But, these are facts
Lived in Little Rock for 10 years. Seems like at least once a year we got an ice storm. I only remember snow a couple of times. Absolute most dangerous conditions to try and be out in. And don't get me started on how often we lose power due to ice storms. 🤬
We all got snow about a week ago. Here in south ark it was freezing rain and slushy snow and it didn’t get above freezing for like 5 days and ice didn’t melt for like a week.
winter in the south is like a classic movie the only colors you'll see are back and white and every conversation turns into Casablanca 95% depressing with 1% of it being happy and other the 4% is sappy romance back stories
Matt is correct, it's a tobaggon. My sister and I judge how mild or cold a winter is by how many times we had to break the ice in the horses water trough. In Fort Worth we have what we call Stock Show Weather. It may be 60 degrees on Christmas or New Years but two weeks later we'll get snow or sleet and temps in the 30s when the Stock Show gets to town.
Yes, there’s stock show weather! One extreme or the other. One year, we killed a rattlesnake under a set of cattle scales it was in the 80s in January and then another year we had to postpone the premium sale for the ice storm coming in on Friday night.
We don't need sleds , we have spare car hoods , inner tubes , cardboard boxes , any old sheet of plastic or a trash bag . It's a winter carnival meets a homeless camp . No matter how horrible the weather , or how panicked everyone gets , the vegan section ( BOTH shelves ! )will remain fully stocked . " No accumulation " is a technical term used to describe a single snow flake or up to and including , 2 feet of snow . If you weren't here for 77/78 you missed the big party . We didn't go to school for a month and a half that winter . 2014 paled in comparison . So did 93 , as it only stuck around for a few days , but did teach us once again about " no accumulation " . 94 was the ice storm , and the gold standard for all later ice events . 2005 was the year we got 8 inches of sleet . Not snow , not slush , sleet . That stuff stuck around like it was tofu at Piggly Wiggly Tire chains work in mud , too . Anyone ( NOT from Massachusetts) can learn to drive in snow . You just need the cheat codes to unlock the hidden bonus pedal positions between all the way up and all the way down .
Thank you for explaining toboggan! I’m grew up in Texas and we always called the hats toboggans but my partner is from Missouri and thought I was crazy.
I’m from Kentucky where we get about one good snow a year and a couple days of ice, so I have a little more experience with cold weather than say folks in Florida. I went to college in Florida and worked third shift at a CVS; one day when the morning shift came in, one of the women told me in a panic that we’d got ice that night and that she’d had to scrap it off her car that morning. I go out to my car all ready to spend the next five minutes scraping ice off my windshield to find, not ice, but merely frost. Cold weather in Florida just hits different. 😂
When I was a kid I moved to Tennessee from Michigan and remember hearing the forecast calls for 2 inches of snow, I remember laughing my butt off over 2 inches until I got older and realized oh yeah mountains and they don't have plows
I'm from the only part of Canada that doesn't get much cold weather and when we had our big blizzard back in '97 or so we had 1 snowplow on the whole island, it was housed in a below-ground car park, and it couldn't get out. I feel ya on the 'no infrastructure.' We just don't drive when it snows.
@@tangofett4065 Lol no. Not even close. It's cold and snows all the time there - that's exactly where American nor'esterner storms end up. Also, Nova Scotia is not an island. Not trying to make you feel bad though - I'd be just as lost with American geography.
@FreeAmerican-mm2my He is from British Columbia. Around Victoria or Vancouver most likely. Also yes, they don't really get much of a Winter. Us Albertians hog it all.
@@burnyizland I thought so. I was being silly because I like saying it. I have a buddy from Toronto and a buddy from Victoria. They’re as opposite as Canadians as they are geographically. It’s pretty hilarious really.
As someone from Arkansas, I can attest to hunkering down in my home after ensuring I have secured sufficient gas (for the generator), and propane (for the grill) anytime there is the threat of a winter storm. We don't get snowstorms, we get icestorms. I don't care if you are the best Yankee in the world, you ain't driving on ice. Period. Winter up North? Yeah, they're annoying but you get used to them. Winter in the South will straight up kill you. 😂😂😂
True. Black ice is very dangerous and not drivable. A definite killer. Packed snow is much, much easier to drive on. Former Chicago gal who now lives in GA and doesn't miss the snow and ice at all. Bring on the southern cold and rain.
Here in southern New England, we’re prone to black ice, and it can be deadly. Folks much farther north, who get a lot more snow than we do, find black ice terrifying to drive on.
That is a fact! I grew up in extreme North Georgia and my daddy taught all of his kids how to safely drive in snow. He also said that no one can drive safely on ice and not to even try.
The “BLIZZARD OF 93” has given me some of my most precious memories. I’m from Knoxville, TN (GO VOLS!!”) we lived in a neighborhood that both entrances was a big hill and our house was at the top. When we woke up that morning we couldn’t believe the amount of snow and the size of the snow drifts. The kids were 3 and 4 and we bundled them up to sled the backyard as soon as our daughter stepped off the porch she disappeared. The snow drift was that big. Thank God she had a pink coat on. We easily found her and let’s say she was NOT HAPPY 🤣🤣🤣. Our daughter tragically lost her life in a car accident when she was 15 so this memory is EXTRA special. Thanks Matt for reminding me of the BLIZZARD of 93.
Besides Alaska, I live in one of the furthest north towns in the USA. Winter is 6+ months long, and it is amazing. Alpine + Nordic skiing, sledding, Biathlon, hockey, ice fishing, snowshoeing, all that fun stuff. It does get cold here though, especially January - February. Most years we get around 10 ft of snow, and it is amazing to ski in. Temp can drop below -60°F in Feb though, so watch out. (Everything does shut down up here if the temp is above 95°, but it also takes -40° for things to shut down in the winter) (also, towns do put sand, dirt, salt, and other kinds of grit on the ice to make it easier to drive, but they only plow main roads, so sometimes you are on your own. Plowing your own driveway can be a nightmare if the snow is dense) (also, chains on tires is mostly for tractors and things like that, not your normal everyday use car)
Northern girl here, mention studded tires to southerners. Best thing in the world to traverse in snow & ice. For schools to close needs to be 6 inches or more. We need heavy wet snow to build a snowman.
East Tennessee here, moved from Colorado. I hear about the storm of ‘93 all the time & it cracks me up! However, I’m an Okie from the Tulsa area and ice storms are the absolute worst! I could drive my Jeep any day in big snow but ice is the great equalizer when it comes to stopping. Ppl tend to forget that and then comes the fishtail 😮
It was watching the trunk of a 30’ tall tree shatter without warning halfway up and the entire treetop plummet down where I had been walking not 15 minutes before that gave me a healthy respect for the ice storm of ‘93.
Got stuck on the Samford campus during Snowmageddon 2014. I'm originally from Ohio/Indiana (farm boy that went Navy and retired here with my Southern Magnolia wife), and when I saw the large, wet flakes coming down I warned my professor that it was going to be bad. He totally ignored my warnings. Two hours later and everyone was losing their minds, trying to leave the campus and either stuck in traffic or in a wreck. I just parked my car near the Samford gym, got issued a mat to sleep on, and pulled my cold weather sleeping bag and emergency rations out of my trunk and hunkered down, reading my assigned work for the night and munching on life-boat cookies. Next morning I got breakfast at the student cafe and then drove home using back roads and a lot of kitty litter (great for traction). Took me a couple hours (normally a 15-20 minute commute) to navigate around the abandoned cars and heavily iced areas, but it all worked out. 😏 You know, I was just at the Publix near Green Valley around 8:30pm and I thought I smelled snow...😱
In northern Ontario we also have studded tires. They're winter tires with little metal studs in them. It also can get as cold as - 30°C or - 22°F. We dont have a choice but to send our kids to school in those temps. Otherwise we wouldnt leave the house for 3 months. They only have cold days when the temps are below - 35°C and thats cuz the busses wont start in that cold.
Yes we do! I left my indoor faucets trickling water but that didn't stop the pipes in the ground from freezing. Luckily, I'd hoarded cases of water just in case.
I live in central Alabama and I have a winter coat. But I’m from western New York and my blood has thinned since moving to the south, so I bought a winter coat to keep warm. Glad I did 👩🏻🏫🥶🥰‼️
As one of your subscribers from Rhode Island, I get it! The cold sucks! I have the opposite issue. I have a box of gloves and scarfs, and now most of the gloves don't actually match each other , but they're gloves that we can use. I also have like 20 different kinds of scrappers too, but fuck if I can find one when I need one!...🤦♀️
😂😂. Yes, we were in the B’ham metro for “snow-mageden 2014”-OMG, exhausting! We now live in the Rocky Mountains where winter-weather preparedness is a THING-like coping with summer in the South is a THING.
I am proud to say I can laugh at New Englanders in summer and Mississippians, Arkansans, Alabamans, Louisianans, Georgians, South Carolinians, and Texans during the winter as a Kentuckian.
Laugh all you want. I will wear my mittens when it hits 72 degrees- and have done so in TX, GA, and LA. That freaking humidity in the cold in New Orleans was brutal.
Fun fact, I grew up in TN and moved up to NYC for 1 year. During that time I encountered people wearing be giant heavy winter coats all "freezing" while I'm running around in a sports jacket eating ice cream. New York City doesn't feel cold, even when it snowed, it didn't feel cold. It wasn't uncommon I would walk around without jacket and people would think I was crazy and I would just laugh. Want to know why it never feels cold? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FREAKING HUMIDITY LIKE WE DO!!!!!! Ok I'm calm and my passionate hatred for the perpetual pool we call the air around here has settled. I'm not kidding however, about what I said. NYC could be below freezing and it didn't feel anywhere near as bad as it does in TN when it's 30 degrees. If you northerners want to feel what winter in the south is like, then the next time it's below freezing soak a blanket in ice water, wrap yourself up in it and go for a walk. That is that is the type of "feels cold" we are talking about here.
"the perpetual pool we call the air around us" 😂😂😂 - as someone who lived in Louisiana, I can tell you that no one believes me when I tell them it's straight up like living in a sauna.
I've felt what a humid winter feels like. I'd take it over the 7+ feet of cumulative snowfall I currently deal with in an average season any damned day. I can always add an extra layer if I feel like I need it. Driving in white out conditions while there's 8 fresh inches of snow on the road, only ever broken up by random patches of black ice, tends to change a whole lot more about my day. And could kill me a whole lot faster if things went sideways.
@@RevShifty It don't matter how many layers you put on down here. That humid breeze or wind, is cutting through every single layer you have on. 7+ feet of snow, white out conditions, and black ice, all together sound like the saying "hell has frozen over" 😬
@@a.s.3904 That humid chill had literally never bothered me. It's more an excuse to pull out the wool sweaters that anything. And, yes, "hell has apparently frozen over" is how I describe most any Tuesday between late December and early March. Though my language gets a lot more colorful if I have to drive through a storm.
I'm watching this from Montana... so I don't really need to say anything 😁, but when you got to the "mad max" with the chains, I lost it 🤣. You southerners can keep your bugs and sweat though, and I'll keep my blanket, thanks 😉. And salt and pepper is all a person ever needs Matt!😜
I moved to Texas from Chicago a few years ago. Had to drop my boy off at school. Saw it was going to be 62° later on, so I put on a pair of capri pants. It was in the 50s at this time in the morning, I believe. I stopped at H.E.B. before going back home. Got out of the car & started walking towards the store and was so confused 🥴 by all the people in heavy coats. 😂😂
I literally learned to drive on snow and ice due to my birthday and where I lived at the time but when snowpocalpse hit in 2014 I looked at the people driving and then hunted my kids bus down on foot only to take them and many other kids home on foot. My kids were the only ones with proper snow gear because we visit family in cold places. The thing that still ticks me off almost a decade later is my kids are the only kids that didn’t call a parent because “we knew you would find us”. The fact that I proved them right didn’t make them better at calling ever.
I spent a year in a real snowy part of Japan, so now I've adapted to life in both seasonal hellscapes. Granted their summer is near as bad as ours in August...
I grew up in the mountains of western NC. We used to get 1-2 feet of snow at a time. So I learned how to drive in the snow. Moved to SC in 2012, and for the 2013 and 2014 thing, I was laughing at everyone else as I just drove down the road without a problem.
I was in Memphis in early 78’ after boot camp. We got about 10” of snow on top of sleet. After over 400 accidents reported the first hour after sunrise the entire area shut down. When Navy SeaBees finished clearing the base roads they hit the public roads around the base using road graders to clear the snow. The county/state authorities had no snow plows but they did have road graders. It took 2 days to make major roads passable and 2 days later there was widespread flooding due to rapid snow melt.
College student in Pennsylvania during the Blizzard of '93. We ventured out for a treacherous booze run, then had a party in our apartment. Good times.
We had a wood stove in the 93 blizzard. My dad was the cook in the house, with him stuck at home, we ate like kings. He baked biscuits, scrambled eggs, baked potatoes... We had no problem in the food department. we had to open windows and doors while cooking. Dog had 8 pups we had to bring in, stinky.
Yankee living in Missouri here. I still recall a couple years ago when a snow and ice storm hit Atlanta. You really did look like The Walking Dead out there on I 80 with all the abandoned cars and people trying to hike up the Exit ramps. I also remember When they announced how many snowplows were attacking the Atlanta area - The state of Missouri had more stationed in just the Kansas City suburbs. I also recall Super Bowl 45 when that ice storm hit Dallas and im thinking to myself “I hope Those fine Texans stay home and let all the Packers and Steelers fans have the rest of the city… Since we know what we’re doing.”
I’m from East Texas and our Snowmageddon of 2021 was the stuff of nightmares. 1 foot of snow. That stuck. It wasn’t slushy snow either it was like soft powder like mountain snow. Calves were completely frozen to the ground, I had to personally put livestock in the garage because they weren’t handling the weather well. I was also bottle feeding a lamb with bath tub water because our rural water supply had a huge leak. I had snow when I was 14 during the 2014 snow but ours was just slush and lasted a day. I firmly have a fear of stuck snow now because of that time. Hope the upcoming weather I’m hearing about is wrong
Actually, using the word toboggan for the hat is recorded as far back as the 1920s. There may be a connection to it being a common hat type worn while out riding toboggan sleds.
I live in the Adirondacks. Yes, NY state. ( we homestead, so we're freedom loving Americans lol) but holy cow, the ny state plowing fleet is AMAZING. We're southerners who moved north for inexpensive land. You always make me laugh!!❤❤❤
I was watching a video where the host was trying to pronounce Adirondacks. He gave up and said "a mountain range". I'm not a great speaker, but that's not a hard name to me.
I moved from Montana to Texas 6 months before the 2021 snomagedon. I still had my winter coat, boots, gloves, and hats which I wore when I went to the store, and people looked at me like I was an alien. If it gets below freezing on the rare occasion I still pull them all out to wear, and people always look very nervous seeing me out an about! I can see the flashbacks in their eyes, and they always look at me like "what is that and where did it come from." I have no regrets, good to keep people on their toes.
Thank you for that toboggan comment, grew up in Kentucky and that's all I and everyone else around me has ever called it, finding out that outside KY and up north and out west that it means sled was a surprising moment.
The whole thing about being freezing if the temps going below 50 is no joke. I live east of Orlando and in February of 2019, we had a morning where it was 45 degrees at 7:30. At the time, i worked at an elementary school and had hall duty to make sure the kids all got where they needed to be. Well due to some stupid architects, a lot of the schools in Florida have outdoor hallways. So on this particular morning, i had to stand in one of these cursed outdoor hallways in 45 degree temps with a wind chill that made it feel like 35 for half an hour. I had on 5 layers, gloves, scarf and a hat, along with a thermos of hot chocolate. One of the parents, who was a recent transplant from Connecticut, said hello as he dropped his kid off (both where only wearing hoodies and laughed when he saw how bundled up i was. He was like "its not that cold" and while i chuckled along with him, in my head i was like "you try standing out here in this freaking wind tunnel for half an hour you Yankee jerk"!
In 2014 I had been out of school for a while following a knee surgery and it had been long enough I was actually excited to go back. The day I was supposed to go back was the start of snowmageddon and we were out for weeks. Luckily, it was my senior year of HS and there was a policy that seniors didn’t have to make up snow days.
As a Texan, and someone who lives in an RV with a generator that died, I have to also point out the Freeze of 2021, where we had no power for over a week with temps below 20... I was basically hibernating the whole time
It cracks me up that no matter where you are in the US, as soon as catastrophic weather is predicted, the stores sell out of bread, milk and eggs. Apparently french toast is the official food of weather disasters.
vickey is that you
Ever notice that bread, milk, and eggs are spread out in the grocery store? It's because they're needed for so many things that chance are, any shopper is going to need at least 2. By spreading them out, you walk through more of the store and are more likely to but other things. So yeah, people buy those 3 staples.
Just the bread and milk around here. And it’s for sandwiches and cereal because there’s a high chance your power is going out too and you can eat sandwiches if you’re tired of canned food. The milk is for kids, since we all know they can live on cereal. Bonus, you can stick the milk out in the imaginary snow bank to keep it fresh.
That's called a French toast emergency!
I’ve thought the same thing 🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃🙃🤣🙃
I lived in Nashville for years and one day it started sleeting in the middle of my shift at work. Our family only had one car, so my wife had to come get me when the day ended. I am not exaggerating when I say that she counts the one night she drove 5 miles on slightly icy roads as her greatest driving accomplishment. It happened in 2011 and she STILL talks about it.
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@@jefftoonstra5087imma tell you how we do it WE DONT
I live in Nashville now, from Baltimore. I laugh at what they call winter every year!
And I will assume your point is that you kiss that precious lady every day of your life with love and gratitude 😉~ you're welcome from a happily married wife of 32 yrs (yes, tothe same fella, lol) 🤣
I live in Boston and I know your infrastructure is way different but it always makes me giggle to hear southerns talk about snow and how they can’t drive in it. We measure it in feet not inches.
“It’s a bit nippy outside”
Translation: it’s 60 degrees
YUP
-10 degrees F is "nipply"....anything further negative has a "bite"....you enter the -40 then you start to bundle up, dress in layers, talk about frostbite, and worry if you need to tent your car and have a propane heater so it will start
@@jesshorn257exactly. 20+ is hoodie weather, down to -10 is shirt and jacket, and below that is hoodie and winter jacket. It's so funny to me seeing southerners complain about the "cold" when up here it would be considered nice. I mean, 60° is perfect weather, especially in the sun.
@@theEWDSDS .. it's in the 60s now and I have my heater on. I'm also wearing a hoodie. They said it was supposed to be in the 70s all week.. 70s & 80s is nice weather :)
That's deep south weather. They don't even get winter. Wait till you find out kentucky alternates winter and spring. It was 20 degrees last night my easter lily's have frost on them and it's supposed to be 50 at noon. It was seventy degrees last week and there was still snow on the ground in the shade. The weather so weird around here the snakes wear jackets
My family moved to Middle TN from Michigan when I was 6. We used to just kinda hang our heads a bit low with no real come back when our family up north would talk trash about southerners closing everything in winter and how they can't drive in it. Well... I made a very strong realization several years ago. Yeah, in Southern Michigan it's relatively easy to drive in snow and ice - the whole topography is pancake flat and all the roads are straight unless it's to go around a lake. You can literally see the curvature of the earth! So if someone up there hits some ice they gonna slide for a bit and unless they hit something they are gonna be perfectly fine. Now... Here in Middle TN, if there is ice your car is probably gonna go flying off the edge of a cliff and end up in some holler about 150 feet down, and ain't nobody gonna find you til maybe mid spring. If you are on anything other than an interstate and it's icy out you. will. die.
Horse Hockey... Ever try to drive through Pennsylvania in the winter? Thye mountains are just as bad if not worse than anything in Tennessee.
Michigander, here. Went through Kentucky when it snowed a couple years back in January while trying to get to the Nashville area. It was the WORST roads I've ever been on. Our van did a 360 on 65 while going 30. Straightened back out and kept going. It took 8 hours just to go from Louisville to Elizabethtown where we took a break for the night. We're still traumatized every time we get to the steep hills on 65 and remember that day.
@@BNSF39- The original poster didn't talk about the whole North - just one area of Michigan.
And like he said, the roads in the South aren't treated
Said he was from middle TN and used the word holler in a sentence…this guy definitely isn’t a bot 😂
I’m from rural Georgia and the caveman grunts in the cold is extremely accurate.
R - It takes my darling Hubs about five minutes to return to 'human speech' after being outside... 😂
“Y’all got a name for property seasoned food? Didn’t think so…”
Got me rolling
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"for those of you who are not freedom loving Americans, it's zero celsius" as a Canadian that had me laughing out loud.
I still remember in the late 70's everyone was telling us that we needed to learn the metric system . That never happened .
The coldest day in the area where I live last years was -31.4c so -24.52f that was 125km northeast of Toronto or 78 miles.
I get that their not use to the cold but I would love to see someone from the south last a minute in that with full winter gear.
@@Warlover1015 I'd love to see a canadian last a minute in 115°F (46.1°C) with 95% humidity with no clouds and no wind.
@@Warlover1015 I lived in the mountains of Vermont for 16 months. The temperature with wind chill was well below that. I was born and raised in south Georgia and I loved it. I survived it easily thanks to God and some good people up there that taught me what to wear. One lady even gave me a down filled long coat that belonged to her late uncle (an expensive one I found out later). I was caretaker to an author's property for free rent in the 12x14 foot cabin, and part of my job was to pull snow of the main house roof and shovel from the door to her car. I wish I still lived up there.
@@eaglerider1826 And now you're one of the only countries in the world that uses incorrect measurements. And the weirdest thing about your comment is.... you actually sound like you're bragging that you never learned something.....
North Alabama here. In the Army the topic came up about how our respective areas respond to snow/ice (it gets real boring sometimes). When it came for my response, I said that we have a simple solution. We do nothing. We wait. It melts.
NEVER DRIVE WHEN SNOW OR ICE IS ON THE ROAD. You may be able to do it, but we cannot. Roll Tide.
Yep, as a lifelong Southerner raised by Northerners my parents raised me to understand that you NEVER drive in the snow/ice in the South ... not because of precipitation, but because of the other drivers.
My dad said when he was stationed in NC Marines in the 60s the city shut down for a few inches 😮
As a GA native with a long career in the Army, Fort Drum New York was an eye opener and training ground for my current life in Michigan. At Ft Drum, it was usually us Southern boys in the ditch… and all those still driving the muscle car with All Season tires.
See, this kind of accident would not happen if you were in a car instead of a tide.
Roll tide cannot survive, much less drive in ice/snow…us northerners can teach you. We can be your asset when it turns to shit down there 🤣
I was a student at The University of Alabama during the Blizzard of '93. The midnight snowball fight on the quad was truly epic. Downed trees make for great bunkers. Also, you haven't thoroughly buried someone's car in snow unless you've packed a stack of snowballs covering the full height of the antenna. Attention to detail is important, y'all.
Sorry for that snowball to the back of your head. I was there on the quad for that. I was visiting a friend who was a student at Bama. Loved seeing the guys that came out there with a three man snowball slingshot.
@@bamachine Y'all're absolute legends! I'm sorry I missed it! (I was born in 1994. :( Though I didn't luck out on the huge ass Texas freeze of 2021. That was WW2 and there were absolutely NO fun moments during that at all! )
Alabamy is my favorite state in the world
I was elementary school in 93 In Atlanta and that snow was awesome lol 😂
@@Michael_B82 Same but Mississippi, the week of closed school (couldn't just have most of the snow melted, it had to be 100% gone or the buses couldn't make to the houses on gravel roads) was like a second Spring Break.
But I also 2nd @TheOReport1994 You can't go out and play in the snow and enjoy it when the power's been out for days because it's only fun if you know you can warm up when you come back in.
As a southerner that has been living in Wisconsin for 7 years, I'll tell you a secret, they can't drive in it either. Everytime it snows, there are numerous accidents and people off the road. We had a 133 car pile up a few years ago on the interstate near my home.
Bless you for living up there
That happens when Wisconsin gets 6 or more inches of snow. And yes, lots of folks in accidents because they have experience driving in 1-2 inches and thinking they can handle all kinds of snow. And those amounts would absolutely shut down a southern state for days (assuming it didn't hit 60 degrees the day after)
Only the first snow of the season. For some reason, it takes almost going in the ditch for people to remember how to drive in the stuff. Which does not bode well in pretty much any part of Iowa tomorrow!
I can't possibly imagine a 133 car pile up! I truly hope you were able to avoid that nightmare. We may not get a lot of snow in the South, but we have several instances of black ice that will give heart attacks to everyone unfortunate enough to encounter it.
@@blackdragoness21 I was at home, luckily. It was sad, one young man lost his life. We had powdery snow and high winds so, it caused a whiteout. Of course, people were driving too fast for the conditions. It's snowing now, I hate snow. Lol, I was born and raised in Alabama.
I worked at a locally owned grocery store.....and it is down right terrifying when the little old ladies storm the store when the forecast says it's gonna snow.....those sweet little things turn into demonic entities!!!
That burn at the end about "properly seasoned food" was vicious, Matt!! 😂
Mississippi and Alabama shares a snow plow. 😂 We do have some fun in Mississippi & Alabama when it snows which means ice, like when we hook metal row boats to trucks and drive really fast with people in it on a highway. I’m surprised I survived my childhood.
I was in Florida during snowmageddon 2014! Despite years living in Newengland it was the most spectacular winter experience I have had. There was one storm where it somehow managed to rain at about 25 deg out so all the trees grew a dazzling collection of icicles in a matter of minutes and all the "hills" grew an angry collection of low speed vehicle collisions. If you have never seen a lifted truck gently drifting sideways down the road it is a magical experience.
Shouldn't Florida have the best southern snow drivers because of all the retirees from snowy places?
@@deathpyre42no, because now you’re dealing with old people on ice who never wanted to be on ice again. You tell a disgruntled geriatric to drive safe instead of squinting at their smart phone while driving at least 20mph over or under the speed limit and see how they respond.
And I mean that 20 over or under thing. There is no in between for them. You’re dealing with a grandma who is either too blind to see the road and so she keeps it at a crawl, or grandma who’s realized she doesn’t have much longer to live anyway and wants to take a few people with her while flipping them all off.
I think I vaguely remember this, though from what I do remember, it was never supposed to go further south than the Atlanta area. My family and I were visiting my grandparents in Illinois for the season and then the news of a major snowstorm hit, and we had to hit the ground running as quickly as we could. Apparently that was also the same winter my mom remarked that the winds were so strong it slid our car off as we were driving up to Wisconsin.
I remember the snowmageddon of 2021 in Texas and my power went out and my well stopped working thankfully the pipes didn’t burst
@@jimson_weed45 A UA-camr I like who's from the Houston area even mentioned how it snowed once in Texas, and the entire state broke, referring to this of course. Aside from the fact that it's a Pokemon video, since that's just what he does, I don't quite remember the video where that's said.
Last year we went to Michigan in October and on Halloween night, it snowed about three inches. The residents seemed annoyed but my family and I were ECSTATIC! We got our thickest coats on, double layers of socks and hats and gloves and played behind the motel. We were video calling our family back home and hollering and praising Jesus. We live in the DEEP South. Around New Orleans. We hadn’t seen snow since January of ‘21 and that was way up in North-East Mississippi. Getting to actually play in the snow like regular folks was AWESOME! We made snow angels, had snowball fights, and built a four-foot-tall snowman named Frank. WE HAD ENOUGH FOR FOUR FEET! It only lasted about an hour but it’s a memory I ain’t never gonna forget. 😊
Edit: I removed the part about things staying green down here. I hadn’t been outside in a while but I went out today and saw how dead it all looked. So never mind lol.
I;m from Grand rapids MI., and I love that for yoou! We are currently in a blizzard warning for the weekend and I am actually looking forwared to it!
Anyone else out there do the upside-down trash can lid because your parent's wouldnt buy a sled to use two days out of the year?😂 I also remember that storm in 1993, power AND SCHOOL were out and we grilled everything, lol I thought it was like camping but these days I'd probably lose my mind.
Some car hoods make a good sled too!
Volkswagen hoods make the best sleds!
No but one of my friends used the hood of an old Toyota truck to scrap the driveway once.😂
Tote lids for us lol 😂
1993. We got over 20 inches of snow that in blizzard. School was closed for a week because it was near the end of the season and our town ran out of sand and salt.
“Y’all got a name for properly seasoned foods? I didn’t think so!” 😂😂
Wyoming Native here. Winter is Sept-June. Have had snow on 4th of July. Great thing about winter is no snakes, no mowing, and the dog poo is frozen so you don't have to worry about tracking it into the house😂
when I lived in Boston, heaps of snow would pile up along the sidewalks. There were literally strata of dog and cat poop due to new snow shoveled on top of the old snow. It was hilarious
But where can you get a good ice cream cone?
You are definitely the south secret gem!! You make my day and boy my days need all the help I can get... sincerely, thank you for your humor
I live about 20 miles north of Charlotte. Believe it or not, when the weatherman on TV mentions "snow", it's not the country people that were born and raised here that panic, but all the Northerners and Californians that have moved in around Lake Norman over the past 30 years that go into "headless chicken" mode. I'm thinking it must be PTSD from all those Northern blizzards they had to live thru.
It used to be great fun watching them mob Lowes and Home Depot, snatching up every portable generator, heater, and propane bottle in sight - that is, until a few year ago, when Lowes and Home Depot got tired of them bringing back all that stuff they bought for the "snow emergency" but never used, to get their money back, and having to ship all that crap back to their warehouses - they finally came out and said "You bought, you own it, deal with it".
My 86 year old mother's only response when this happens is "Well, no sense going to the grocery store for a few days, those Yankees are going to mob the place and clean out every loaf of bread and gallon of milk".
I'm in NC too, east of Raleigh. It's insane to me how quickly the weather man will mention "the possibility of snow," and that possibility is like 4%. And everyBODY talks about it like it's gonna happen, and be bad. At this point I feel like they know they wield some power with the word "snow" and will say it just to watch people panic about "snow."
If you're 20 mi north of Charlotte, then I'm about 20 mi north of you and I agree with everything you said.
I live in the mountains of NC, and I agree with everything you just said as well. 😂 I worked in a grocery store near a ski resort and all of the out-of-towners would flood the place at the mention of snow.
Well you live in Lake Norman, you are surrounded by a lot of people who have enough money to panic buy a lot of dumb crap. Not EVERYONE has money but a lot of people sure do
I will say, the worst are the actual local drivers.
*Nobody* knows how to drive in actual ice. Not a single fucking person.
However, this is easily counterbalanced by the fact that nobody wants to leave their houses, so the number of people on the road drops significantly.
Which mostly leads to most accidents having just been people skidding off the road at notable turns.
Of course, this is Texas, so stocking up is actually a thing we have to do now since the chucklefucks in charfe have done shit to put any pressure on fixing the power grid.
It's having issues handing the heat in summer. Y'know, the one thing Texas has been dealing with since before our grandpa's grandpa's grandpa was born.
In Georgia, if the weatherman even mentions in passing that there MIGHT be a few snow flurries coming, I believe it's law that you must go to the grocery store for milk, eggs, and bread; then to the gas station for gas.
We get mostly ICE. Either freezing rain or sleet, or a combination of snow, sleet, and freezing rain. The good part is it only lasts a couple of days. And since it lasts so short a time, we just take a day off and enjoy it. It's great spending time with the kids playing in the snow.
When I was in Geneva, New York, I loved when it snowed, but after a couple of months of nothing but snow, and how dirty and ugly the sides of the roads were because of whatever they put down and plowing it off to the side, I was sick of seeing snow. And after watching several seasons of "Heavy Rescue 401," I've realized that you northerners can't drive much better than us southerners. My best friend even crashed his car when he hit a patch of black ice. He couldn't drive on ice and he was from New York. Ice is just about all we get in Georgia.
Black ice is a real thing.
That's not a fair criticism because New Yorkers can't drive, period.
And I'm from NE Ohio (in the Snow Belt), and we used to always say that people in Southern Ohio can't drive in the snow. And sure enough, that was demonstrated when I drove south to Marietta during an ice storm. Everything was fine until I got to Cambridge, which is about 45 minutes north of Marietta. Then SUV's and pickups started flying by the people who driving cautiously. And then we saw those SUV's and pickups after the ran off the road into the median. But now the whole state gets less snow, due Climate Change. So, virtually everyone is less skilled (but at least many people still know to slow down).
@@debgordon6542 I wrecked a car that I loved because of black ice
We moved from Pennsylvania to Florida for 2 years when I was a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to wear the summer uniform and maybe a jacket on the way to school during the dead of winter while everyone else was bundled up like Nanook of the North.
On Halloween we actually get to show off our costumes. No coats over them :-)
@@debgordon6542 But if it involves makeup it might all be sweated off by the fourth house.
Hahaha. It reminds me of a sign at the local nursery. "The great freeze of 2024 is upon us. Buy your frost cloth here!" That's our biggest worry in the desert. Keeping the cactus alive.....
In southern Arkansas we have a snowplow for the county. I think it is a dump truck most of the year that they bought a plow for.
Where? I'm in South Arkansas Arkansas and I never heard of it!
@@kellycampbell8056 south central.
I live in magnolia and when it snowed they just brought in a bulldozer to push snow off the highway and it just knocked all the middle reflectors in the ditch and backs the freezing rain/ice/snow to the road lol
That sounds about right, yeah.
One thing you forgot to mention is that southern winters are WET. It makes a difference. In the north the weather gets way colder but it's a dry cold that parkas, gloves, thermal underwear and some exertion can easily beat. The only obstacle then is cold weather gear claustrophobia if you're not a northerner. But a damp cold - especially a southern cold front that can't decide between freezing rain and slushy snow - can crawl into all but the warmest clothes and chill you to the bone. Stay out in that weather long enough and it will wear away at your sanity.
THIS! My cousins from Michigan visited me in Texas and kept going on and on about how they couldn't believe how cold it felt despite not being freezing. I kept telling them it's the DAMP that gets you.
Speak for yourself. Winter in Pittsburgh was cold and very wet.
I love seeing folks that think only the south gets ice storms. They must think New England goes from summer straight to winter and there is some magical line just north of Virginia that makes it impossible to get any precipitation in the form of freezing rain. The south is not special in this regard. Winter can be dry or wet, depending on how cold it is.
That is so true! I have a friend from New Hampshire that move down here to Tampa... So it got about 30 something degrees a few winters ago. Which is sort of normal. And she said it is freezing down. Here! I said yeah it's winter? But she didn't realize that the wetness goes right through you...
@@rriggs6547winter in Pittsburgh is very cold but that's because it's wet cold as well.... It's not as wet up in New Hampshire or Connecticut. Not that it doesn't get cold... That wetness goes right through you.
Thank you for validating that a Toboggan is a hat here in the south. My Yankee husband for Wisconsin still gets a good laugh out of my wearing a sled on my head. I think we saw a Toboggan in the Winter Olympics and just really wanted to say that word 😂
I thought everybody called it a toboggan until I went to college in Florida and made friends with a girl from Montana. I just assumed it was called a toboggan because that’s the kind of hat you wear when you go sledding on a toboggan! Made sense to me! 😂
I'm from Las Vegas and now live in Rural GA with my husband - I always give him a hard time about the toboggan. 😹 It's a ski hat, man! The first time he said it, it really took me awhile to understand what the heck he was talking about!
A Toboggan is a long wooden sled that can fit two or three kids. That thing in his hand is a winter hat that you wear while Tobogganing.
It is definitely called a TOBOGGAN down SOUTH, not a wussy beanie!
@@jxchamb Depends on where in the country you lived.... a toboggan is a ski cap, a sled is a sled.
LOL MATT!! This is SO TRUE!! 😂😂 In Texas, if they call for ice, I am calling in to work. Period!! One time when I worked at an undisclosed monopoly telephone company, they gave the people that risked their lives to come in to work in a literal ice storm the following; 2 free slices of pizza, & a laminated paper badge that said “I am a storm trooper” SERIOUS!! No thank you, I was happy to stay at home, warm in my onesie, with my blanket & some campbell’s bean & bacon soup. 😂😂😂
we had a storm here in DFW that literally shut down the whole Metroplex for 2 days. I think it was 2011 but I am not sure
@@clairewood7416yeah 2011 and 2021, 2 coldest times of my life lol
I just spoke to my daughter who is north of Austin (originally from MI). She is out running errands because she knows the roads will be empty. Weather warnings for freezing temps-but no precipitation-and everyone is staying home because they are afraid of ice. She can’t convince them that without any wet stuff there won’t be ice, lol.
Winter in the south is our gift for living through summer.
I learned the meaning of winter when i moved from my home town of San Antonio, Tx to Oscoda, Mi. A record breaking blizzard that year.
I didn't know that was possible outside of the Arctic!
I survived Ice Storm '93 and still remember my dad driving our go-cart around the front yard while my brothers and I held on to the back while in an old baby wash tub. And using that same tub as a sled to go down the big hill in our neighborhood.
As a northerner who loves the cold temperatures and hates being hot temperatures, I can safely say you’re right about us complaining about temperatures over 80 degrees up here. Honestly if it’s cold outside we can layer our clothes and winter gear but when it’s hot we can only get to a t shirt or tank tops and shorts before we hit the point of no relief.
In Florida we use the Falling Iguanas to know when it's really cold out. We just put on our thickest hoodie and hope for the best
Thank goodness for heated seats 😉
45 degrees? "It's freezing out there!" is anything below 65.
Winter of 93 I was in DC with a bunch of Yankees and I was sure I would never see my family again. I'm pretty sure they still talk about the look on my poor Texas face when I saw the wall of snow.
Now the Savannah Snow Fall of 2018 was something to see.
Yep, same here; is it below 70? Well, then I'm just staying inside because I don't own a parka. 😂
Years back when I was driving a truck, heard this on a radio station in Nashville, TN: ''Winters in Tennessee aren't that bad, if we didn't have to share our only snowplow with Kentucky and Alabama''. And I had a gentleman from Georgia tell me that they one snowplow in their state, and it was at the Atlanta airfield. 👍
This is hilarious!
I love to see all the different perspectives of living on Earth.
Blizzard of '93. 12' drifts, and a 500' driveway. We didn't see a plow for 2 weeks, but I still had to get to school after the 3rd day. 🥶
We had Fall yesterday, Spring this morning, and now it's dipping back in to Winter.
My part of Kentucky handles snow pretty well. Now when it snows at the same intense pace for about 18 hours or if we get an ice storm, that's when it goes full apocalypse mode
Same in central Illinois. I live in fear of a real ice storm.
It cracks me up how we handle school closures in KY. I always knew as a kid if my school would be closed by which *other* counties were closed. And they do treat state roads pretty well, but once I moved out to the boonies I realized that I had been spoiled. It takes ages for our county and side streets to get treated. Then we can't even make it to the store for a doomsday prep.
@@moonkenzie In my part of KY (just north of the freeze line) our roads would thaw and refreeze daily. There was a hill with several switchbacks between our high school and the northern county line. That hill is risky in high summer! The Assistant Superintendent of schools lived at the bottom of that hill. Every morning he got up at 4 am and tried to drive up that hill. If he couldn't get past the first switchback, we did not have school. Partly because of risk, but about 1/3 of the student body of the high school was north of the hill. We would lose our state education $$ for that day if our attendance dropped below a certain point. Add in all the snowbound houses at the end of long driveways and all the unimproved farm roads and there was just no point. My senior year we were out 2 solid weeks for snow, ice and cold temps.
I grew up in Michigan, dealt with 6 months of gray days and purple nights(turns out that’s the color of clouds at night in winter), and then I moved to Florida. I don’t miss the snow even a little bit! I love going outside in shorts and a T-shirt, I love the sunlight, and I don’t even mind the trade off of it being hotter than Satan’s jacuzzi in the summer!
I'll take my fireplace and pond hockey over dealing with Florida Man any day...
@@RAD6150You do know that your neighbors are just as crazy, your state’s privacy laws are not as open
Amen.
I miss the snow but I do love the fact that its sandals weatherpretty much all year. Not sure if I like the heat and humidity part of the trade off because I got heatstroke the first summer I moved out here. My husband's poppop decided we should all go to a real baseball game outside in the great South Carolina sunshine...
@@LighthawkTenchi Not as crazy and we won't get into laws and politics... this isn't the forum. So, I will leave it at pond hockey and fireplaces.
As someone from Arkansas, we rarely get ice or snow but when we do, god damn. Yesterday, it snowed and that's when I thought the world was ending. But, these are facts
Didn’t snow down here in Pinebluff, y’all north of LR seem to get snow far more often.
Okie here. You can keep that snow.
I live in Russellville and it snowed yesterday and I thought the same thing
Lived in Little Rock for 10 years. Seems like at least once a year we got an ice storm. I only remember snow a couple of times. Absolute most dangerous conditions to try and be out in. And don't get me started on how often we lose power due to ice storms. 🤬
We all got snow about a week ago. Here in south ark it was freezing rain and slushy snow and it didn’t get above freezing for like 5 days and ice didn’t melt for like a week.
winter in the south is like a classic movie the only colors you'll see are back and white and every conversation turns into Casablanca 95% depressing with 1% of it being happy and other the 4% is sappy romance back stories
Matt is correct, it's a tobaggon. My sister and I judge how mild or cold a winter is by how many times we had to break the ice in the horses water trough. In Fort Worth we have what we call Stock Show Weather. It may be 60 degrees on Christmas or New Years but two weeks later we'll get snow or sleet and temps in the 30s when the Stock Show gets to town.
Yes, there’s stock show weather! One extreme or the other. One year, we killed a rattlesnake under a set of cattle scales it was in the 80s in January and then another year we had to postpone the premium sale for the ice storm coming in on Friday night.
We called them soogin down here in lower alabama
@sparkyth67 Northern Alabama calls them boggans, too.😅
@@melaniedodge7101 Yep. I've heard that term before too
Just another warm hat. Seriously they are just too many to remember all their names. They are all winter hats.
We don't need sleds , we have spare car hoods , inner tubes , cardboard boxes , any old sheet of plastic or a trash bag .
It's a winter carnival meets a homeless camp .
No matter how horrible the weather , or how panicked everyone gets , the vegan section ( BOTH shelves ! )will remain fully stocked .
" No accumulation " is a technical term used to describe a single snow flake or up to and including , 2 feet of snow .
If you weren't here for 77/78 you missed the big party .
We didn't go to school for a month and a half that winter .
2014 paled in comparison .
So did 93 , as it only stuck around for a few days , but did teach us once again about " no accumulation " .
94 was the ice storm , and the gold standard for all later ice events .
2005 was the year we got 8 inches of sleet .
Not snow , not slush , sleet .
That stuff stuck around like it was tofu at Piggly Wiggly
Tire chains work in mud , too .
Anyone ( NOT from Massachusetts) can learn to drive in snow .
You just need the cheat codes to unlock the hidden bonus pedal positions between all the way up and all the way down .
Thank you for explaining toboggan! I’m grew up in Texas and we always called the hats toboggans but my partner is from Missouri and thought I was crazy.
3:14 That last swipe about seasoning is gold😂😂😂
“Y’all got a name for properly seasoned food?” ROFL!
It’s been 45 degrees for too long!
Amen!
It’s cold because it’s also humid. Where I live, the average temperature this past January was 42 degrees… I’ve never been so cold.
I’m from Kentucky where we get about one good snow a year and a couple days of ice, so I have a little more experience with cold weather than say folks in Florida. I went to college in Florida and worked third shift at a CVS; one day when the morning shift came in, one of the women told me in a panic that we’d got ice that night and that she’d had to scrap it off her car that morning. I go out to my car all ready to spend the next five minutes scraping ice off my windshield to find, not ice, but merely frost. Cold weather in Florida just hits different. 😂
When I was a kid I moved to Tennessee from Michigan and remember hearing the forecast calls for 2 inches of snow, I remember laughing my butt off over 2 inches until I got older and realized oh yeah mountains and they don't have plows
I'm from the only part of Canada that doesn't get much cold weather and when we had our big blizzard back in '97 or so we had 1 snowplow on the whole island, it was housed in a below-ground car park, and it couldn't get out. I feel ya on the 'no infrastructure.'
We just don't drive when it snows.
Halifax?
@@tangofett4065 Lol no. Not even close. It's cold and snows all the time there - that's exactly where American nor'esterner storms end up. Also, Nova Scotia is not an island. Not trying to make you feel bad though - I'd be just as lost with American geography.
@@burnyizland Are you not going to tell us about that mythical part of Canada where it does not snow?
@FreeAmerican-mm2my He is from British Columbia. Around Victoria or Vancouver most likely. Also yes, they don't really get much of a Winter. Us Albertians hog it all.
@@burnyizland I thought so. I was being silly because I like saying it. I have a buddy from Toronto and a buddy from Victoria. They’re as opposite as Canadians as they are geographically. It’s pretty hilarious really.
I was stuck in Atlanta's Snow Jam in January 1982! Now I know I can survive anything 🤣
As a Texan living in Washington, that last line hits hard.
As someone from Arkansas, I can attest to hunkering down in my home after ensuring I have secured sufficient gas (for the generator), and propane (for the grill) anytime there is the threat of a winter storm. We don't get snowstorms, we get icestorms. I don't care if you are the best Yankee in the world, you ain't driving on ice. Period. Winter up North? Yeah, they're annoying but you get used to them. Winter in the South will straight up kill you. 😂😂😂
True. I hate snow but I will take it over ice.
True. Black ice is very dangerous and not drivable. A definite killer. Packed snow is much, much easier to drive on. Former Chicago gal who now lives in GA and doesn't miss the snow and ice at all. Bring on the southern cold and rain.
True! I'm about 20 miles from the Arkansas/Louisiana state line - all we get is ice and power outages.
Here in southern New England, we’re prone to black ice, and it can be deadly. Folks much farther north, who get a lot more snow than we do, find black ice terrifying to drive on.
That is a fact! I grew up in extreme North Georgia and my daddy taught all of his kids how to safely drive in snow. He also said that no one can drive safely on ice and not to even try.
The “BLIZZARD OF 93” has given me some of my most precious memories. I’m from Knoxville, TN (GO VOLS!!”) we lived in a neighborhood that both entrances was a big hill and our house was at the top. When we woke up that morning we couldn’t believe the amount of snow and the size of the snow drifts. The kids were 3 and 4 and we bundled them up to sled the backyard as soon as our daughter stepped off the porch she disappeared. The snow drift was that big. Thank God she had a pink coat on. We easily found her and let’s say she was NOT HAPPY 🤣🤣🤣. Our daughter tragically lost her life in a car accident when she was 15 so this memory is EXTRA special. Thanks Matt for reminding me of the BLIZZARD of 93.
We go to work and then straight back home. That’s it!
This was laugh out loud funny. We are Yankee transplants and after 20 years of living in NC we too think 45 is freezing!!!
I'm from south Louisiana ,and when we get snow we grab some beer ,bury in snow and visit😅😂🎉
Besides Alaska, I live in one of the furthest north towns in the USA. Winter is 6+ months long, and it is amazing. Alpine + Nordic skiing, sledding, Biathlon, hockey, ice fishing, snowshoeing, all that fun stuff. It does get cold here though, especially January - February. Most years we get around 10 ft of snow, and it is amazing to ski in. Temp can drop below -60°F in Feb though, so watch out. (Everything does shut down up here if the temp is above 95°, but it also takes -40° for things to shut down in the winter) (also, towns do put sand, dirt, salt, and other kinds of grit on the ice to make it easier to drive, but they only plow main roads, so sometimes you are on your own. Plowing your own driveway can be a nightmare if the snow is dense) (also, chains on tires is mostly for tractors and things like that, not your normal everyday use car)
Northern girl here, mention studded tires to southerners. Best thing in the world to traverse in snow & ice. For schools to close needs to be 6 inches or more. We need heavy wet snow to build a snowman.
East Tennessee here, moved from Colorado. I hear about the storm of ‘93 all the time & it cracks me up! However, I’m an Okie from the Tulsa area and ice storms are the absolute worst! I could drive my Jeep any day in big snow but ice is the great equalizer when it comes to stopping. Ppl tend to forget that and then comes the fishtail 😮
It was watching the trunk of a 30’ tall tree shatter without warning halfway up and the entire treetop plummet down where I had been walking not 15 minutes before that gave me a healthy respect for the ice storm of ‘93.
Got stuck on the Samford campus during Snowmageddon 2014. I'm originally from Ohio/Indiana (farm boy that went Navy and retired here with my Southern Magnolia wife), and when I saw the large, wet flakes coming down I warned my professor that it was going to be bad. He totally ignored my warnings. Two hours later and everyone was losing their minds, trying to leave the campus and either stuck in traffic or in a wreck. I just parked my car near the Samford gym, got issued a mat to sleep on, and pulled my cold weather sleeping bag and emergency rations out of my trunk and hunkered down, reading my assigned work for the night and munching on life-boat cookies. Next morning I got breakfast at the student cafe and then drove home using back roads and a lot of kitty litter (great for traction). Took me a couple hours (normally a 15-20 minute commute) to navigate around the abandoned cars and heavily iced areas, but it all worked out. 😏
You know, I was just at the Publix near Green Valley around 8:30pm and I thought I smelled snow...😱
So true, so true! You hit the nail on the head once again. 😀
In northern Ontario we also have studded tires. They're winter tires with little metal studs in them. It also can get as cold as - 30°C or - 22°F. We dont have a choice but to send our kids to school in those temps. Otherwise we wouldnt leave the house for 3 months. They only have cold days when the temps are below - 35°C and thats cuz the busses wont start in that cold.
We don't shut the schools in Alberta until -40. And winter tires are optional. 😉
Ask us Texans about Snowmageddon 2021. Yeah that sucked, but we all have a story about it
Yes we do! I left my indoor faucets trickling water but that didn't stop the pipes in the ground from freezing. Luckily, I'd hoarded cases of water just in case.
Yep, Snowmageddon in 21, and the Christmas Eve Blizzards of 09 (west of Abilene). Those are the two big ones that I remember in Texas.
"...and that helped! That helped to make *frozen* mud!" The relatability 😂
I live in central Alabama and I have a winter coat. But I’m from western New York and my blood has thinned since moving to the south, so I bought a winter coat to keep warm. Glad I did 👩🏻🏫🥶🥰‼️
As one of your subscribers from Rhode Island, I get it! The cold sucks! I have the opposite issue. I have a box of gloves and scarfs, and now most of the gloves don't actually match each other , but they're gloves that we can use. I also have like 20 different kinds of scrappers too, but fuck if I can find one when I need one!...🤦♀️
They call properly seasoned food "Southern-style"
*Nobody down here has a coat. Just rain jackets”. Ain’t that the truth. 😂
😂😂. Yes, we were in the B’ham metro for “snow-mageden 2014”-OMG, exhausting!
We now live in the Rocky Mountains where winter-weather preparedness is a THING-like coping with summer in the South is a THING.
I am proud to say I can laugh at New Englanders in summer and Mississippians, Arkansans, Alabamans, Louisianans, Georgians, South Carolinians, and Texans during the winter as a Kentuckian.
Arkansans, aren’t they like Kansas Pirates?
Laugh all you want. I will wear my mittens when it hits 72 degrees- and have done so in TX, GA, and LA. That freaking humidity in the cold in New Orleans was brutal.
And we all get to laugh at Kentuckians year round…. Cuz “Kn’tuuuuuckeeee”. 😎
Absolutely! Kentucky gets every kind of weather on Earth except hurricanes.❤️🤗🐝
Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia is its own region - West Kenessee
My dad every time there is a touch of ice on the roads: ICE STORM OF 2000!
Thirteen days without power on that one. Four kids, the youngest 5 months old.
I'll never forget that horror show!
@@littlebitlost “see that generator, I bought that in the ice storm of 2000 to keep the heater and the freezer on.”
Fun fact, I grew up in TN and moved up to NYC for 1 year. During that time I encountered people wearing be giant heavy winter coats all "freezing" while I'm running around in a sports jacket eating ice cream.
New York City doesn't feel cold, even when it snowed, it didn't feel cold. It wasn't uncommon I would walk around without jacket and people would think I was crazy and I would just laugh.
Want to know why it never feels cold? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FREAKING HUMIDITY LIKE WE DO!!!!!!
Ok I'm calm and my passionate hatred for the perpetual pool we call the air around here has settled. I'm not kidding however, about what I said. NYC could be below freezing and it didn't feel anywhere near as bad as it does in TN when it's 30 degrees. If you northerners want to feel what winter in the south is like, then the next time it's below freezing soak a blanket in ice water, wrap yourself up in it and go for a walk. That is that is the type of "feels cold" we are talking about here.
"the perpetual pool we call the air around us" 😂😂😂 - as someone who lived in Louisiana, I can tell you that no one believes me when I tell them it's straight up like living in a sauna.
I've felt what a humid winter feels like. I'd take it over the 7+ feet of cumulative snowfall I currently deal with in an average season any damned day. I can always add an extra layer if I feel like I need it. Driving in white out conditions while there's 8 fresh inches of snow on the road, only ever broken up by random patches of black ice, tends to change a whole lot more about my day. And could kill me a whole lot faster if things went sideways.
@@RevShifty It don't matter how many layers you put on down here. That humid breeze or wind, is cutting through every single layer you have on.
7+ feet of snow, white out conditions, and black ice, all together sound like the saying "hell has frozen over" 😬
@@RevShifty I was more just talking about the cold more than the snow.
@@a.s.3904 That humid chill had literally never bothered me. It's more an excuse to pull out the wool sweaters that anything. And, yes, "hell has apparently frozen over" is how I describe most any Tuesday between late December and early March. Though my language gets a lot more colorful if I have to drive through a storm.
I'm watching this from Montana... so I don't really need to say anything 😁, but when you got to the "mad max" with the chains, I lost it 🤣. You southerners can keep your bugs and sweat though, and I'll keep my blanket, thanks 😉. And salt and pepper is all a person ever needs Matt!😜
I moved to Texas from Chicago a few years ago. Had to drop my boy off at school. Saw it was going to be 62° later on, so I put on a pair of capri pants. It was in the 50s at this time in the morning, I believe. I stopped at H.E.B. before going back home. Got out of the car & started walking towards the store and was so confused 🥴 by all the people in heavy coats. 😂😂
You, sir, are a master of your craft 🍻
I literally learned to drive on snow and ice due to my birthday and where I lived at the time but when snowpocalpse hit in 2014 I looked at the people driving and then hunted my kids bus down on foot only to take them and many other kids home on foot. My kids were the only ones with proper snow gear because we visit family in cold places. The thing that still ticks me off almost a decade later is my kids are the only kids that didn’t call a parent because “we knew you would find us”. The fact that I proved them right didn’t make them better at calling ever.
I once slid on an icy road down a daggum mountain BACKWARDS during one of those infamous blizzards. Ain't nothin' the winter can throw at me.
were you in a car, or on foot???
I spent a year in a real snowy part of Japan, so now I've adapted to life in both seasonal hellscapes. Granted their summer is near as bad as ours in August...
Did you bathe in the Japanese hot springs with the snow monkeys?
Great video Matt🙏, I live in Columbus Georgia and I know what you are talking about 😂😂
I grew up in the mountains of western NC. We used to get 1-2 feet of snow at a time. So I learned how to drive in the snow. Moved to SC in 2012, and for the 2013 and 2014 thing, I was laughing at everyone else as I just drove down the road without a problem.
I was in Memphis in early 78’ after boot camp. We got about 10” of snow on top of sleet. After over 400 accidents reported the first hour after sunrise the entire area shut down. When Navy SeaBees finished clearing the base roads they hit the public roads around the base using road graders to clear the snow. The county/state authorities had no snow plows but they did have road graders. It took 2 days to make major roads passable and 2 days later there was widespread flooding due to rapid snow melt.
Matt, we as in my whole family love you ❤😂😅😊
I live in Iowa where July is 112 and February is -12. It takes extreme physical pain to get soil like this.
College student in Pennsylvania during the Blizzard of '93. We ventured out for a treacherous booze run, then had a party in our apartment. Good times.
We had a wood stove in the 93 blizzard. My dad was the cook in the house, with him stuck at home, we ate like kings. He baked biscuits, scrambled eggs, baked potatoes... We had no problem in the food department. we had to open windows and doors while cooking. Dog had 8 pups we had to bring in, stinky.
In Michigan, we wear shorts when it’s 40 degrees
This is so true, y'all.
Yankee living in Missouri here. I still recall a couple years ago when a snow and ice storm hit Atlanta. You really did look like The Walking Dead out there on I 80 with all the abandoned cars and people trying to hike up the Exit ramps. I also remember When they announced how many snowplows were attacking the Atlanta area - The state of Missouri had more stationed in just the Kansas City suburbs. I also recall Super Bowl 45 when that ice storm hit Dallas and im thinking to myself “I hope Those fine Texans stay home and let all the Packers and Steelers fans have the rest of the city… Since we know what we’re doing.”
I’m from East Texas and our Snowmageddon of 2021 was the stuff of nightmares. 1 foot of snow. That stuck. It wasn’t slushy snow either it was like soft powder like mountain snow. Calves were completely frozen to the ground, I had to personally put livestock in the garage because they weren’t handling the weather well. I was also bottle feeding a lamb with bath tub water because our rural water supply had a huge leak. I had snow when I was 14 during the 2014 snow but ours was just slush and lasted a day. I firmly have a fear of stuck snow now because of that time. Hope the upcoming weather I’m hearing about is wrong
That hat is called a toque (also spelled touque or tuque). And the bit abour the food made me laugh out loud.
That's what it called in Canada.
Actually, using the word toboggan for the hat is recorded as far back as the 1920s. There may be a connection to it being a common hat type worn while out riding toboggan sleds.
I live in the Adirondacks. Yes, NY state. ( we homestead, so we're freedom loving Americans lol) but holy cow, the ny state plowing fleet is AMAZING. We're southerners who moved north for inexpensive land. You always make me laugh!!❤❤❤
I was watching a video where the host was trying to pronounce Adirondacks. He gave up and said "a mountain range". I'm not a great speaker, but that's not a hard name to me.
I moved from Montana to Texas 6 months before the 2021 snomagedon. I still had my winter coat, boots, gloves, and hats which I wore when I went to the store, and people looked at me like I was an alien. If it gets below freezing on the rare occasion I still pull them all out to wear, and people always look very nervous seeing me out an about! I can see the flashbacks in their eyes, and they always look at me like "what is that and where did it come from." I have no regrets, good to keep people on their toes.
Thank you for that toboggan comment, grew up in Kentucky and that's all I and everyone else around me has ever called it, finding out that outside KY and up north and out west that it means sled was a surprising moment.
Hilarious, Matt! Thanks for this! Go Preds!
It helped to make frozen mud. 😆😆😆😆
The whole thing about being freezing if the temps going below 50 is no joke. I live east of Orlando and in February of 2019, we had a morning where it was 45 degrees at 7:30. At the time, i worked at an elementary school and had hall duty to make sure the kids all got where they needed to be. Well due to some stupid architects, a lot of the schools in Florida have outdoor hallways. So on this particular morning, i had to stand in one of these cursed outdoor hallways in 45 degree temps with a wind chill that made it feel like 35 for half an hour. I had on 5 layers, gloves, scarf
and a hat, along with a thermos of hot chocolate. One of the parents, who was a recent transplant from Connecticut, said hello as he dropped his kid
off (both where only wearing hoodies and laughed when he saw how bundled up i was. He was like "its not that cold" and while i chuckled along with him, in my head i was like "you try standing out here in this freaking wind tunnel for half an hour you Yankee jerk"!
AWESOME synopsis of our winters down here. 🤣😂🤣😂❤️❤️🤣😂🤣😂
I LOVE THE WINTER IN GEORGIA
Nailed it!! 💯
In 2014 I had been out of school for a while following a knee surgery and it had been long enough I was actually excited to go back. The day I was supposed to go back was the start of snowmageddon and we were out for weeks. Luckily, it was my senior year of HS and there was a policy that seniors didn’t have to make up snow days.
As a Texan, and someone who lives in an RV with a generator that died, I have to also point out the Freeze of 2021, where we had no power for over a week with temps below 20...
I was basically hibernating the whole time