Today, my house is on lockdown. I recently moved to Georgia from Rhode Island to be with my boyfriend. The state is on high alert for an ice storm. I'm stuck inside with my terrified boyfriend, who's calling it "the storm of the century". I used to walk to school in this weather. FML
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Today, in Tennessee, it stormed like crazy due to Hurricane Harvey. I brought my boyfriend home safely to his parents' house, but it rained harder once we arrived, so I started to wait inside. He's an adult but has a curfew, so they kicked me back out into the storm. FML
Today, is the second time this week that school is delayed because of snow or "extreme ice." It's like we're Texas now, they get 2 inches of snow and the whole state gets shut down, but no, I live in Rhode Island. I gotta go to work. FML
Today, I was at my boyfriend's house. It wasn't until the huge fight which ended with us breaking up did I realize that I was snowed in with him. One day down, two to go. FML
Today, the massive snowstorm that has been mercilessly attacking my city for the past week started causing random, brief blackouts every 2-5 minutes. I'm very sick, so the last thing I need is for this house to be cold. FML
Today, I heard that there was supposed to be a huge blizzard heading our way, so I went out to stock up on groceries. After spending $600 on food, I drove home and packed most of it into the fridge and freezer just in time for our power to go out. FML
Today, we had an ice storm. My fiancée went out to look at the damage and yelled at me when I warned her to be safe. As she was walking around, she almost got nailed by a falling branch. Now she's mad at me. I don't know why either. FML
Today, I was walking home from school and my stupid brother who comes earlier then me locked the storm door. I ended up trying every other door for 3 hours in below freezing temperature. I was numb everywhere. I rang the bell and my brother opened it. He was home the whole time. FML
Today, I packed up to get ready to move to my boyfriend’s. I just graduated high school and I don’t get along with his mom, but I have no other choice of living. I was supposed to move in with his family tomorrow but now his mom won’t let me. It was last minute, and I’m basically homeless. FML
Today, my ex-boyfriend, who lived in Tennessee, moved to Georgia to be with his long-distance girlfriend. I live in Georgia too, and last year he broke up with me after two years together because he “didn’t see a future in Georgia” to be with me. FML
Today, with 24 inches of snow on the ground, it is raining like hell. The weight of the snow, now full of rain water, collapsed the roof over my living room. I was eating cereal in my underwear, in the living room, directly under the failure. I'm cold. FML
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unwantedforlife 14
That sucks for all of us from the north but to be fair, they are not used to any type of snow or ice
CallMeWindSock 24
And in the north, 50 degrees is T-Shirt weather!
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WhatsOpTic 11
I'm in Florida. A slight layer of ice causes roads and most schools to shut down.
siggy_mcsigx 22
Well ice can arguably be more dangerous than snow.
pensacolalady 10
I was born & raised in FL a long time ago & just the mention of snow shut everything down! I've been in VA for 20 yrs & it's about the same here! They'd already shut down schools yesterday & the light snow started around 5 pm today!
DanielleinDC 33
DC area schools shut down at even the possibility of snow, but this could be a serious one. But as long as the WMATA buses are running, I will do my best to make it in to work. As for you, OP, if you and scaredy-cat are stuck in the house, there are things you can do to keep his mind off the storm....
MrsNightmare 3
"Recently." So you haven't experienced one of these nasty, humid summers? 90+ degrees, mosquitoes and pollen. Maybe your boyfriend will show you some compassion when you complain about that weather.
horneyhic 15
That sounds like our summers
hunteredmundson 17
You get that up north
Playitlovely 13
gotta love Canada "storm of the century" is good ice fishing weather. My boyfriend is from china and we had a pretty large storm, shook the houses, blew over a few things, most of the door was snowed in. He thought that it was the apocalypse and that we were going to die hahahaha
Rallred32 20
Haha. There was an intern from china at my school, and when he saw the "massive" 2 inch snow in texas, he cried.
Rababco 29
@18 Reminds me of the episode of "How I Met Your Mother" where there's this violent storm and everyone was panic except for Robin. She kept claiming it was considered "golfing weather" in Canada.
tj4234 35
Try living in the uk. Scotland gets 6ft of snow usually, england gets maybe 1 or 2 inches. They then pull all the snowplows out of scotland and send them to england (the logic being that since we are a colder country, we are used to the weather). England grinds to a halt, and for the most part scotland survives (albeit barely).
feven 32
Six ft seems a bit extreme don't you think?
RedPillSucks 31
They might not get that regularly, but six foot drifts are common where I went to school
pensacolalady 10
No, it's not extreme at all, depending on where you live in Scotland!
Schiffy 18
Damn southerners can't handle below freezing weather.......
RedPillSucks 31
Damn Northeners. Can't handle 95 to 100+ weather.... *I'm melting???! melting!!!*
horneyhic 15
We get both up here
TheDrifter 23
Yeah, we get well over 100 even here in Alberta. We just try not to flaunt it, that wouldn't be good for southerner's egos.
hunteredmundson 17
We get 100+ days here on Long Island, and we get a lot of snow.
dabomb0513 10
Lol I moved from El Paso TX to Toledo Ohio. People thought I was lying when I told strange stories of snow to my ankles and bugs that glow.
siggy_mcsigx 22
Hahaha! I'm from Rhode Island living in Ireland. They have no idea how to deal with the tiniest bit of snowfall! Yesterday actually was the first flurry and everyone had on puffy jackets, I just had a hoodie and enjoyed walking in it. Better than the rain, any day! There are no extremes of heat here, 65 is a heatwave and 35 is "freezing". But it is always pretty cold and windy and damp :( .
Secret_Ninjaa 35
Heyy I live in Georgia too! Crazy weather eh?
ChakatBlackstar 29
I've driven a minivan through a certified blizzard doing 45 mph on the highway for a good 60 miles without breaking a sweat. They get a light dusting and they act like it's the end of the world.
JoeyJaws68 18
People in the south bitch about 3 inches of snow, people in the north bitch about 100 degree weather, it works both ways
myeviltwin 20
Sure we bitch about 100+ degree weather (and we get in the upper 90's regularly in the summer) but, the difference is we do not close everything down and act like it's armageddon when we get 100+ degree weather, we crank up the ac, drink more water, spend more time in the pool/lake and deal with it. I would argue we do better with hot weather than you guys would do with a real winter (several feet of snow, weeks on end with below zero temps with wind chills reaching 35 below or better). I lived in southern Missouri for a brief time managing a restaurant/motel. They would get 1/4in of snow and just freak the f out. Cars crashing into each other going in ditches. Parents calling the restaurant in a panic screaming "Send my kid home NOW!!!!!!!". And in mid February the day time high would be in the mid 40's to low 50's and they would be wearing parkas and snow boots, hats, gloves and I was in shorts and a long sleeved t-shirt. No way could they ever handle a real winter.