Snow, Southern Style

Yes, it snowed here in Charlotte, North Carolina sometime last night. No more than an inch. By morning the precipitation changed to rain. All of you out there lucky enough to be in New England or other snowy places would find this comical. Schools are closed. Business are closed. The court system is closed. By the time rush hour started, some snow lingered on grassy areas but not a flake on the roads. Just rain. Watching the local morning news (which, by the way, preempted the Today Show and all other national morning news programs due to the "winter storm") you would have thought this was the biggest natural disaster since Katrina hit New Orleans. Seriously. The footage showed snow plows plowing nothing (this city has over a million people and 32 snow plows, up from the previous 16), reporters standing roadside picking up snow that could not even amount to enough to form a snowball, and local police officers warning people to stay off the roads. After years of living in New England and Alaska, we just laugh at the silly North Carolinians, who are probably all still nestled up at home with their bread and milk while we are at work. I am not sure what you even make with bread and milk. Milk toast? What is that anyway?