Oh no kidding. I just have to laugh whenever I see states in the south having a major crisis because of two inches of snow. I live in upstate New York, and we just got nailed with 11 feet in one week. But you know what? As long as it was only snowing an inch or two an hour, people keep moving, cars keep rolling, and life goes on.
Hell, people around here are *so* unafraid of snow that if there's three days of warm weather, half the state forgets they can't do seventy in a blizzard. It's fun seeing a car in the ditch every mile or so.

It's rather pathetic down here. There's like no middle ground, either people are mortified of even a single snowflake, or don't give two shits about the weather and drive however they damn well please. So pretty much EVERYONE ends up calling in.. either because they're afraid to drive, or have run their car off the road :|

I live in maine... it takes at least six inches to shut us down... which, ironicaly, we're getting today (WEEE, no classes for me!)

...or freezing rain. That stops everything pretty quick.

When I was in elementary school it has to be snow mixed with ice before we got a snow day so I'm used to having three feet of snow and still being able to get around.

Hah.. An inch of snow is quite enough to shut down everything south of Missouri... and Missouri only takes 2 inches.

The problem is that it snows so rarely around here that we don't have the infrastructure to deal with lots of snow.. no salt trucks, no snowplows.. nothing. So the accumulation tends to sit there until the sun shows up and fixes it magically.

I know the feeling. Last week, we had a few inches fall. I'm in southern Ohio, so snow isn't new to us. However, everyone at all the places we needed to get to were shut down because the snow was "dropped suddenly." And surprisingly they didn't salt squat. Took me 20 minutes to go what normally takes me 3.

Great pic though.

Love the name Bilmer... Quintessentially Redneck.

If the concept of 'Redneck' had it's own animistic patron spirit, it would be named Bilmer.

Bilmer is actually a real name I've encountered. Back when I was working in medical records for the hospital here.. the name "Bilmer", printed on a folder, drifted across my desktop. It filled me with such pity, yet such desire to mock, that I've remembered it to this day.

I knew it.
You can't make that kind of thing up.

Please..PLEASE tell me you've also seen "Jimmy Joe Bob"! :D

Glad to know I'm not the only one of suffered like that, I HATE LIVING IN FECKING ARKANSAS!!!!!!

on the plus side I now know you live in the same state as me^^

Fayetteville.. the only real bastion of civilization in the entire state.

Batesville for me, the most god awful boring place in this so called state. I'm just thankful I wasn't born here.
I'm guessing you were lucky enough not to have been given birth to here either.

No not born here.. born Oklahoma, raised Texas. I don't mind Arkansas so much, I moved here of my own free will, and actually love it here.. for the most part. Again, I live in a college town that isn't anything like the rest of Arkansas.

If I lived anywhere else in the state I'd shoot myself.

Born Irish, raised Texas also. I don't hate all of Arkansas, it's just that there's never anything to do. I moved here because my parents didn't like the city life and wanted to live in the country...I think I'd be happier if they chose a different area. The only exciting thing to do in Batesville is visit the local sex shop...and I find just having one a miracle considering how many churches there are in the area lol

It ain't just the Southern US that affects that methodology. An inch of snow over here can result in the panicked switching off of everywhere from London to Glasgow, even with three weeks warning.

Course, rednecks make for more amusing reactions. XD

I live in Texas myself, and I got a sayin for it:

Kingdom of the hicks, land of the guns, birthplace of the drivethrough liquor stores.

I dislike it here so, and what's worse, I was BORN here, even worse, Cleburne Texas. I'm a hick by birth...HELP!!!

I have to agree, I live in Texas currently, though I did live in California a bit, and where I lived the last time it snowed was 73 years ago..

It snows once a year in Seattle, usually in November. If it's more than two inches the city closes any hill steeper than seventeen per cent.

wha!! -lives in arkansas as well- -,- and i know what you mean about befor it even started to snow hard half of my towns businesses where shut down and cares where going 10 mph on the roads

i grew up in south louisiana i moved to ohio a few years ago .. my first year up here i fliped out cause we had a snow and ice storm and i didnt know what to do