Today, I saw real snow in my hometown for the first time ever. Florida’s previous record was 3 inches in 1895. Today, we received about 6-7.5 inches of snow. And - I can’t believe it - it’s still there right now!

The implications of this are of course kind of terrifying, but seeing everyone so excited and playing outside has been nice. I’ve watched people introducing their pets to their first snow, making snow angels, playing with makeshift sleds. I’ve heard people cheering and having fun all through my neighborhood.

People are happy to be off work. Even the Waffle Houses are closed. There are no cars on the road. It’s a nice little respite during a particularly horrifying time. I know it’s a symptom of something much worse to come, but it’s beautiful anyway.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    To anyone outside of the US south shit has to be really fucked up for Waffle House to close for any reason. The location has to effectively be inaccessible

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    7" in the Pensacola metro. Lost power for 6 hours last night, had to use candles to warm our bedroom.

    Hiked to the creek during the storm. Lucky my dumbass didn’t fall in. This much accumulated in the time it took me to take a piss and snap a couple of pics. It poured like that for 7 HOURS.

    My Filipino wife was doing back flips, never seen snow before.

  • jubilationtcornponeEnglish
    18·
    12 hours ago

    Feel bad for all the people who are about to have frozen water lines. That’s going to suck.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    19·
    12 hours ago

    2 hurricanes and more than 6" of snow?!? We haven’t even got 6" TOTAL for the year yet in northern Iowa.

      • P00ptart@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 hours ago

        Yup, just another “freak weather event” to throw onto the massive pile of others that they just ignore. Soon they’ll be making a conspiracy of why orange juice has gotten so expensive.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          ah I don’t know why you’re all claiming it’s changing, it was this hot once in 1973!!!

          Yeah grandpa except that one freak thing you experienced is now the normal Jesus Christ how ignorant are you

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 hours ago

    OP if you are concerned about frozen water lines a couple of tricks are to leave cabinet doors open under sinks or leave faucets cracked open so water trickles out slowly. If you have access panels to crawl spaces that contain water lines leave those open too.

  • Lumisal@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 hours ago

    Damn, imagine hell freezing over and a bunch of them still don’t get the message

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    391·
    17 hours ago

    Watch out for all the Yankees who’ve moved down and assume they know how to drive in snow because they come from someplace that gets snow all the time. What they don’t realize is in places where it rarely snows we invest very little in snow removal and pretreatment, which can result in a very different experience than what they’re used to!

      • NekoRogue@slrpnk.netOP
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Sadly I’ve actually heard people say this in person. I’ve been stuck in this ridiculous state my whole life.

        • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
          4·
          9 hours ago

          Polar vortexes go further down as jet stream gets weaker. Polar vortexes move cold from the Arctic to fuck this one asshole in particular. Most of Europe right now is “spring like” 6C+ warmer than usual. There’s a spot in Greenland warmer than Southern GA.

          Even just for Northern Hemisphere (Winter peak FYI), all time record hot for first couple of weeks of year.

  • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    13 hours ago

    goddamn you guys have more snow than we do in finland where usually at this time of year we should have a lot!