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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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allplayedout 20
The snowstorm in Atlanta a few weeks ago had traffic on lockdown and bridges iced to the point where commuters (including buses with schoolchildren) were trapped in gridlock overnight. Southern states simply do not have the experience or equipment to deal with large scale ice storms. Our highway patrols are not fully stocked with road salt, we have few or no snow plows depending on the area, our cars do not have snow chains or tires, and our drivers only see this kind of weather once every five to ten years on average. We've handled catastrophic tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and oil spills. We don't need your condescending bullshit, OP.
skittyskatbrat 19
Well, when a snowstorm "surprises" Raleigh even when it started almost exactly the time it was forecast to start, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. You leave BEFORE the snow is expected to fall, and you give yourself plenty of time to get home just in case. They waited until it was coming down and then tried to get home. Grrr.
skipper2009 18
I get by just fine in my FWD no special tires in 6 inches of snow. You just need to learn to slow down in any kind of weather.
allplayedout 20
Irrelevant. OP has no frame of reference, having just recently relocated, and while you are privileged to live in an area with the equipment to handle such storms, others do not have such good fortune. Many southern states are already cursed with poverty and nigh-incompetent leadership that exacerbates the problems in these emergency situations. In the case of Mississippi, whole swathes of people across the delta region live without electricity; the roads in many places through the state are cracked and cratered to the point that they are dangerous to drive on in the best conditions, much less after being iced over. It's true that often southern drivers make their problems worse by overcompensating on the icy roads, thus increasing their risks for accidents. I agree panicking does not help in these situations. But minimizing the well-warranted anxiety (I remember five bone-racking days without power during the ice storm in 1995) of so many people into a judgmental statement about how southerners should just chill out (pun intended) is not going to make anyone less afraid of what they see on the news.
RedPillSucks 33
@44 people still have to work. Not all employers give their workers a break in bad weather
grizzlybear26 7
#35 Why don't you go drive without 4 wheel drive. See how far you get. I bet not far
horneyhic 15
Ok 60 I will I'll bet you I'll do over 10000miles without 4 wheel drive in storms...oh wait I already have
grizzlybear26 7
Yay!!! You can actually drive good in winter storms! Let me give you a cookie for that. It's called chains around your tires
saidoh_fml 26
Agreed 57. And that's exactly what grinds my gears about the storm from 2 weeks ago. The storm was forecasted to begin mid-day, so employers had no business forcing their people to come into work (except for essential employees) and children shouldn't have been required to come to school that day.
midjigirl 13
#80 I'm from Minnesota and I can't think of a single time I've seen someone with chains on their tires. And the majority of our cars don't have four wheel drive either. It's definitely possible to drive on bad roads without chains or four wheel drive, you just need to slow down a bit!
horneyhic 15
80 I don't have have chains or studded tires both are illegal here.
shadow292627 8
#30 I live in MA and I don't have snow tires or snow chains and have driven on the highway during a snow storm and actually passed the salt trucks on my way to my college. So I was driving on an unsalted highway. Not everyone is as extremely prepared as you think for snow. Driving just needs to be much slower. I couldn't go passed 40 mph.
iglesia 11
I would love 105 degree weather right about now...
TuliNya 7
Haha, it's the same here. My entire country isn't prepared for snow, so it went something like "we might see a snowflake or two---" "SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED, WORKPLACES ARE CLOSED, ALL THE ROADS ARE CLOSED. STAY AT HOME AND PRAY FOR SALVATION."
Ben009 13
I had 2' of snow on my truck this morning and maybe another 3' tomorrow morning but I'll just brush it off and go to work.
yuzuru_fml 12
ask him if he wants to build a snowman.
DaTerrier 7
I'm in toronto and we had a ice storm that knocked out power for a week... Tell him to suck it up
iamsayrahh 10
Y'all are used to ice and snow. We aren't.
midjigirl 13
#115 being used to ice and snow does absolutely nothing for you when it knocks your power out.
DaTerrier 7
It's does when the temperature inside your house is the same temperature outside
horneyhic 15
And it was 20 F in Toronto when that happened. Also as all Canadians know Toronto is our wussiest city
boredgirl007 1
Same here. Im sorry it's sad. Im from up north as well.
pennamay 11
Southerners act like they've never seen snow before. Ally they get is ice. And yet they still try to drive one ice.
grizzlybear26 7
Learn how to spell and write
skipper2009 18
Southerners don't know what a real snowstorm is even of it bit them in the ass.
barfcannon 24
Every place has its own weather panics. I'm Canadian and didn't have power for 8 days because of the ice storm. I was also in a car the first day it hit and I've never been more scared in my life because the driver was being an idiot and not driving slowly. It's not just southerners who don't know how to deal in storms.