On its way ...

So what has been rumored for the last couple of days has now in fact become ...

FACT.

Snow has moved into south Georgia and is pushing its way northward to the Atlanta area. A major winter storm with significant amounts of snowfall (for our region, anyway) is not only predicted, it's an absolute.

Glory!

Schools are already closed or are closing early. Businesses are rushing to finish out the work week in an effort to send employees home before the flurries hit.

And my weekly 2-hour Friday marketing meeting has been canceled.

Oh yeah—snow's a big deal 'round these parts.

We don't take it lightly. Mainly because we rarely get much of the white stuff anymore. And when we do, our residents and our city are not equipped to deal with the fluff.

Let me put it, as best I can, in Georgia vernacular:

• We ain't got no chains.
• We ain't got no snow tires.
• We ain't got nuthin'.

Which is why we make the mad dash to the grocery store to buy up all the bread, milk, and can goods they've got ... even if tomorrow's temperature will be high enough to melt the snowflakes.

You just never know.

So with that being said, I'm buying in to the hysteria and leaving work early. I'll stop by the grocery store to pick up a few things, even though you and I both know I don't need them. It's just something we do down here.

Then I'll carefully make my way home, where I'll put on a big 'ole pot of something for dinner, maybe make some cornbread or homemade biscuits, brew a pot of coffee, stoke the fire, and snuggle up with a quilt on the couch in front of the TV.

Why?

Because General Hospital comes on at 3. And when was the last time I got to watch it smack dab in the middle of the day?!?

Ah yes ... just what I love most about the snow ;)