i can see you all are getting lots of the unwelcome white stuff, and ice too. i thought i would get some witty replies, and i did! we do genuinely feel bad for our detecting brothers and sisters up north. it's funny, it used to snow here a lot when i was a kid, but we seldom ever get any. i think we got an inch in the last two years. you ought to see how people drive around here with a half inch of snow on the ground, it's hilarious! man, you talk about car wrecks every 20 feet! it almost paralyzes this area. the chicken little syndrome is alive and well - everytime they call for snow flurries, all the milk and bread disapears off the store shelves in a hurry!
the last good snow we had was about 8" in 2003. we all had a blast! it doesn't matter if the people down here have a 4X4 - about half of 'em end up in the ditch anyway. that's when they revert back to yard ornament status. i'd like to see a good snow down here - that way, i can take my 5 and 6 year old daughters out sledding, just like we did in the old days. we always hope for a white christmas, but haven't had one in over 15 years. but, it's COLD down here! gloves, full ear headphones, and layered clothing are a must.
besides, if there were to be a snowball battle, we'd hafta wait for ya'll to throw one at us so we could make one to throw back. [ain't that what we did in the war before?!] hahaha! thanks, the snow will melt off soon. hang in there!