VICTORIAPARKFLORISTONLINE.COM: North Carolina Snowstorm
North Carolina Snowstorm
If you live in any of the states north of the Mason Dixon Line you'll find it amusing that North Carolina got a dose of between 4 and 10 inches of snow and a little sleet this weekend. In Minneapolis or Buffalo that's spring weather. In North Carolina it prompted Governor Perdue to declare a State of Emergency. I'm not kidding! All events were cancelled; churches closed; schools shut down well into next week; a policeman came by our florist on Friday warning us to close early ahead of the coming catastrophe. I'm not making this up. All the news channels were full of reporters standing by a stranded car somewhere warning viewers of the certain death which would come to anyone who dared venture out of their driveway. I took a chance, broke the rules and drove to work on Saturday morning to survey the carnage. The roads were almost empty except for a tractor pulling some guy on a snow board. Defying all the odds, my Ford Focus managed just fine, by just driving slowly and braking carefully - skills that are lacking among a surprising percentage of drivers in NC as there were, in fact quite a few cars parked at crazy angles in ditches. I put on the "Open" sign in the shop and turned it off 4 hours later with zero customers and one phone call wanting to send flowers to someone in the coffee shop next door which was, of course, closed. Not sure when the "Emergency" will end. They say here that the local method of dealing with snow on the roads is to wait for it to melt.
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