Well here’s my obligatory snow pics. We probably got 7-9 inches total. But it is a layer of soft snow with a layer of freezing rain on top and another 3 inches or so that fell last night on top of that.

Did I mention that people are absolutely nuts around here when it starts to snow? Seriously. It makes you wonder. Schools shut down at the mere forecast of snow. The day before we got any snow, school districts shut down and not a single flake fell. But the snow did come the next day. That’s when things got bad.

The drivers over here are the worst though. Nobody has a mind to put snow tires on their vehicles. I see all these reports about ‘treacherous driving conditions’ on the freeway and to stay home if at all possible. Inevitably the next cut is some SUV without any snow tires on sliding sidways down a hill thinking he could make it up simply because he has 4-wheel drive. And somehow, pickup trucks now have the right to go the speed limit or faster or have a mind to tailgate you or pass you on the right simply because you are driving with caution when it is clearly icy and visibility is awful.

It seems that anything goes in a parking lot. Parking with 2 wheels on a curb is now acceptable. If there are no visible lines for parking spaces, then that must mean it is okay to park on the wrong side of the island blocking an entire lane and the crosswalk. Breezing through stop signs is perfectly fine because hey, it’s snowing, brakes are useless anyways right?

My favorite snow scene though is on the hill coming into our neighborhood. The kids have been sledding down it for days now and a worried mother had a mind to warn all oncoming traffic of the sledders in the street. Very considerate of her. There is a huge cardboard box in the road that reads “Caution, Sledders” on it with a hunters jacket on it, you know, in case the huge cardboard box doesn’t get your attention.