January 9, 2025 • 25 mins
The forecast shows snow for SMNTY, and Anney and Samantha are excited. We take walks down snowy memory lanes, chat about regional differences, and dig into why women aren't always big fans of snow days.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stuff
One Never Told You, production by Heart Radio, and welcome
to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you
are choosing to drink or whatever you're doing, jink responsibly.
(00:27):
Are you sipping on anything, Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I got my bubbly water happening over here. Keep it
keeping it light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
How about you? I, as you saw me struggle to open,
have a can of sake. It is snow related, which
is perfect. The name is snow related, which is perfect
for this episode. But it is cold, so it's both
cold here and the sake is cold. Yeah, but I
(00:54):
wanted I'm a nerd and I like making things a
line where I can, so yeah, but yes, I did
have another Happy Hour planned for this one, but I
thought we would talk about snow days instead, and just
to acknowledge, there's a lot going on. We've got wildfires,
(01:17):
we've got freezing temperatures. It's just a lot. So we
hope that you are all okay, and I think this
will be interesting. I would love to hear from listeners
because I think my experience with snow days, I'm going
to assume it's very similar for you Samantha is that
(01:40):
is something that would make a lot of people where
it snows more often roll their eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right, Oh, absolutely, As in fact, I had recently had
a conversation about that. They're like, no, I moved here
for a reason, no snow, and I'm like, I just
want to help it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah. Yeah, So listeners please write in with your opinions.
And I do have a little I resea this actually
a little bit last night, and I'll put it at
the end about women in snow days because as we
record this, it bite snow. It looks like it's going
to snow tomorrow. In Georgia where we are, that is
(02:15):
pretty rare, and it causes a lot of I feel
like I don't have school tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Or right there is this feeling of gettiness and throwing
you back into childhood, especially again for us who typically
don't get snow on the regular, and when we do
it's odd timing. So I know North Georgia so lived
in the foothills of Appalachia. Literally we would get more
(02:43):
snow than most of the people in Georgia. But even
when we did, because we were in a rural town,
it was still exciting because we would have school off,
and we would anticipate wake up early or be excitedly
waiting the night before to see if we had school
or no school, And there was something to be said
about like not having school. During my middle school years,
(03:06):
we had one of the biggest nos of Georgia, and
we were out of school for like weeks, a couple
of weeks, and then had to extend to having like
thirty minute extra long days into the summer so we
could have enough accredit at time that was not so
much fun. But before besides those times and then going
(03:28):
into adulthood, being because I worked for the government, so
the government is already in the state of Georgia have
already said that they would not they would all be
closed tomorrow, their offices would be closed. Everybody be either
working remote or not working at all. So I remember
that excitement too.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, And I think that is the biggest thing
that I feel bad about when I talk about it
from like my perspective is that I know outside of
the South you still go still go to school or
go to work. But even on top of that, and
I would love for people to write in who have
(04:06):
kids now, I think you don't really get the school day.
I think you have virtual teaching a lot of times,
so it's not the same like excitement.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, the Internet doesn't solve everything, obviously, not everything. Not
everything anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think the first year I moved because my family
lived in Alaska for a while, I don't really have
anything to do with that, but when we moved from
southern Georgia to northern Georgia when I was very not
very young, but like I don't know, kindergarten somewhere there. Yeah,
(04:43):
it snowed like in April, and I remember thinking, what
I think.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The majority of our bigs nose honestly, in the state
of Georgia is usually March April. It's never actual winter winter.
It's weird at the beginning of spring.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, but we've I mean it. And it was as
a kid. I'm sure again I'm gonna talk about this
more then. I'm sure it wasn't as fun for my parents,
but as a kid, I remember. I'm not sure if
we're talking about the same storm, but I remember one.
It was like the last week of it was right
before Christmas or something. It was like right before a
(05:23):
break and I was mad because a bunch of my
friends got out of doing a final assignment that I
had already done. But it was just you couldn't get
anywhere because we lived kind of I wouldn't say a mountain,
but we lived up a steep road and it was
treacherous and in fact, they used to call my house
(05:43):
when they were deciding whether or not to cancel school,
like how icy is it outside? And it was. It
stuck around for several weeks and it was mostly ice
and not snow. But I remember the power was out
for we were cooking things over a fire. We were
all sleep being in the same room, and we were
playing board games and stuff, and I loved it because
(06:05):
again I was a kid, and I was like, this
is the coolest, right, but I didn't have to deal
with the stressors of how are we gonna feed these kids? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, it's the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's when I moved to That's the one that happened. Yes,
when I moved to Delanago. That's where it's where I
moved in it. I remember it was the first year
I was there was this normal.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, it was not. The National Guard had to be
called out apparently, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, well that's another thing. We've talked about this before
on the show. I mean, we do here in the
South get a lot of ribbing and teasing and a
lot of it's there, but some of it is like
we don't have the infrastructure because it doesn't normally snow,
or at least not in a substantial amount that's going
to hang around for a long time. So we've had
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every like ten fifteen years for a while, we have
what we call like snowpocalypses or the Great Snowjam or whatever,
and it's where there's just massive traffic. I was. I
was caught one for fourteen hours once and it was horrible.
I was crying.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I was like, no, this it's awful. Like the things
that happened, it brought both brought a community together. It
also made us all very angry at our guns at
the time because they were so lacking.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, they like canceled everything at the worst time in
the experience I'm thinking of. It was like the worst
time they could have called things all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It was already snowing, right, are you talking about the snowpocalypse.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, they were two that kind of happened in close
ish years. I'm talking a Yeah, I think I'm talking
about the first one, the.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Stem first clips. Yeah, Like I think that's the one
that everybody's like, we, y'all, we can't do this because
literally because we're sleeping at schools.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah. Yeah. It was wild, like they opened, stores would
open and have people come in. People were abandoning their cars.
My car slid out. I was almost home and it
slid out, and this group of people had tarps and
they were helping people move their cars and I just
put it in a random spot and I was like,
(08:25):
I'll get you later, car. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The reason it's called the Snowpocalypse is because the way
the roads were just indeed but had abandoned cars everywhere.
It looked like the coming of the end.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It looked like the Walking Dead. A lot of people
did a lot of shots of just how comparison side
by side of how much it looked like the Walking Dead.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm not gonna lie. This was my moment of I
will talk about it till this day when people bring
this up, because I was so proud of my intuition,
because I was not fooling with anybody. Because I was
working in Kawita County noon in Georgia, which is a
good twenty five minutes without traffic type of commute. So
I was like, it's starting to snow. They're saying it's
(09:11):
gonna keep snowing. I'm leaving, like I literally got up,
made an announcement to my boss and I was like,
I'm leaving, and he looked at me. He's like, but
it hasn't been I was like, I don't care. I'm
like and he was very nice, like he was like, okay,
I'm like, I live too far away. I'm not staying here.
And he was like, okay, I guess be careful. And
by the time I made it home is when everybody
(09:31):
was like, oh my god, the road roads are frozen.
Roads are frozen, and yeah. I was like, that's correct.
I was right. And I went to my little grocery store,
which was not it's like a boutique grocery stores or
everything is extra expensive, but they have really nice wines.
I took the bottle of wine and my popcorn. I
was like, that's right, fools, I'm at home.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That is awesome. I remember times when school will be
canceled just at the hint there could be because we
these things have happened, and we know.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's back and forth because we've had those moments where
people make fun of us because they're like, there may
be snow. Cancel school for a week and then and
then everybody's made fools of and they're like, we'll never
do that again. Oh they're possibly snow. Yeah, we trust
to do last time. And then they're all stuck in
the ice. And that's the biggest problem is like we're
(10:35):
not really worried about the snow. The way temperature works
in the South, with the humidity level and everything that
freezes over so quickly, and the fact that we are
so underprepared, like we don't ice think, we don't assault things.
I think at the time of the snow apocalypse, there
was like seven mobiles in the state, in the whole state,
So they had to like emergency call people out and
(10:57):
be like, oh, I gotta fix this, gotta fix this.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Do you read snowflowers.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sorry, snowboo bills, Yes, snowflass but I'm gonna calls for
the rest but like it makes sense to me, But yeah,
the whole thing is like they did not have that
many because the South is so underfunded. That's not something
that they look at the amount of funding that they
put into anything for the community we know is lacking.
For anti trans policies, tons of money, tons of money
(11:27):
for taking money away from older generations. Tons of money.
This like aloof possible dangers of all the immigrants coming in,
tons of money, but anything actually useful, like schools, or
they do fix the roads. They do a lot of
(11:47):
construction on roads. I will give them that they do,
just not in preventing accidents they do.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is it a headache, yes, but is it necessary also yes,
so they tell me. But yeah, I mean that's it
is funny to me because I've had so many conversations.
It's just so different based on where you are about this.
This whole conversation around snow and snow days and like
(12:16):
everybody here, I mean people are going to the store,
they're clearing it out. Like my friend was just texting
me she couldn't find like a warm coat and all this.
Oh no, oh my goodness, me, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Trying to find a scarf for our trip to New
York when I was expecting possible snow there. This was
before I was like, oh no, there's warmer in New
York than it is in Georgia right now. But like,
I couldn't find a scarf anywhere it was.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
She couldn't find a scarf either. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh Georgia, do you not believe in scars? They're so cute.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I love a good scarf, I know, great fashion piece, great.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Fashion piece, and keep your neck warm, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Very warm. But yeah, I mean I have. I would,
I really would love for listeners writing about this because
because no one is so rare where we are, I
do have like these horrible I spent fourteen hours in
a car, but I also have really lovely like one
(13:18):
one year it's not on Christmas, and that was amazing,
just like the picture. Oh it was so nice.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's like that, this is what I talked about when
I'm trying to find the Christmas spirit. That's what I wanted. Annie.
That one did not freaking get it get.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You got the delay of the time, but you didn't get.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Got so much delayed, very angry annoyed partner by the
end of because he's like, if this doesn't stop, I'm
gonna throw something. But no, like I and that's because
I also remember that and we had again. I was
in Lja, Georgia, and my property was completely blanketed in snow.
We were sitting by a nice fire and there's this
(14:03):
like lamp post that my family has, my parents had
put in and the way it looked, it looked like
a scene out of Narnia.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it was so perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I was like, this is be beautiful the.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
One Yeah yeah at one time. One other time I
was in Alabama in it snowed, but it was like
the barest dusting of snow on Christmas. But as a kid,
I was like, yes, yeah, this is the best. So
I really like it. I honestly, I'm we're gonna wake
(14:35):
up early. The sad thing is you we You never know,
it might just be sleep. It could just be sleep,
and I'm up here at seven am. I'm like, what,
where's the snow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I'm gonna be disappointed, just like I wasn't disappointed in
childhood when I would wake up to see if there
was any snow and there was nothing but ice and crunchiness.
I feel the same way. I'm excited about it. I've
actually plan to breakfast oh for my partner and I
and it's gonna be like the like the bare minimum,
but like because I want to see the snow as well.
(15:09):
I'm really excited about having my dog playing snow because
for the most part in the last her lifetime, there's
barely been any that's a little bit but enough, not
enough to play and even this time it won't be
enough to play in honestly, but having an open backyard
where for the first time it's my house, you know
that I own with a nice backyard just for her
(15:33):
and want her to play in it to see what
she thinks of it, because she is a hot natured creature,
So I want that to happen like That's part of
my excitement. And my partner has been laughing at me,
like kindly, like not not anything mean, because I have
for the past since the announcement of this arctic freeze,
have been looking at the weather to see if we
(15:53):
would get snow and asking our smart devices if it's
gonna snow and how much snow we're gonna happen. They
keep lying to me telling me there's no snow, and
then I'll be like asking about a specific day and
they'll be like, yeah, two inches of snow. I'm like, wait,
which is it. Stop lying because it's hurting my feelings.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It is funny, but that, honestly, that is what we are.
Like at this time, We're like, who is it gonna snow?
Are You're checking like every hour for the next day
like it was gonna happen. I get text from friends
and it's like, oh, I've heard it's gonna be two inches,
so I've heard one seven. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I think I'm right on the outskirts of it. So
it looks like one inch maybe with possible two inches
because even though you and I are so close together. Yeah,
the like difference is apparently fairly massive enough to be
like a pretty big change, like you'll have rain when
I don't have rain, or vice versa. Like, yeah, deftly
had those moments which rain is not, you know, uncommon,
(16:50):
like we know how that goes isolated thunderstorms and such.
But like for the like weather changes like that that
you would think it wouldn't be too massive difference, but
it's almost predicting, like a half an inch difference from
our Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Mm hmm. I'm gonna be so sad if it doesn't
happen at all.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It's I'm gonna be it's just gonna rain, not more right, right,
I mean, but it does bring like for those of
you who are not in the south and who experience
winter pretty heavily and would rather not.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I understand. I get that because we get that with
the humidity. But even like in this conversations before, we
talked about people experiencing the weather a little differently, like
what our winter is versus others. But like when it's
cold here, the cold is different. Cold is different here,
even though the degrees may seem similar, the way that
it is effective, the way the wind hits, the way
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the humidity hits, like, it's just different. Like I've loved
the watching people and be like I'm from Colorado, from
this like northern area, but it still feels like it's
colder here, like they've said that so many times, which
like feels very validating because but it's only a short
period of time.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Literally maybe a week, like one day, and then all
of your plants die and then.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Have to kill all through a spirit and then.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And then it doesn't again a month later. Yeah, so
we'll see, we'll report back. I'm planning on frolicking if
there's snow. Atlanta does what's called hoff Atlanta and Piedmont Park,
(18:42):
and I'm going, yes, if it snows, I'll be back
at a reasonable hour because we have.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
To record tomorrow because I'm a procrastinator.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
But I will be back because I think the snow
is going to happen early.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, it's gonna seven am.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's gonna change to sleep and then freezing rain, which
is not as fun. I want the snow part. But
that does bring me to what I've been teasing this
whole time. I did look it up, and I think
this is no surprise to anyone, but working mothers don't
love snow days. They don't get the break, especially like
(19:24):
if it is for a long term. I don't think
this is the case in northern states, but in southern states,
like the stores might close, you might have a real
difficult time getting to if you need food or something
like that. You can, it's just not easy. And so
I read several essays from women who were mothers who
(19:46):
were like, I hate snow days. I'm just gonna admit it.
I don't get to go play in the snow. I
gotta do this. I gotta do this, I gotta keep working.
And usually help with nowadays the virtual lesson, which is
sad because I kind of I feel bad for the
loss of the snow day. Yeah, I really do, because
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I mean we don't have it off either, and I
mean I'm not even saying we should, but like technically
working tomorrow, we are working tomorrow. I'm still going to
get up early and frolic around, but that would be working, yes,
But I do, like I think it's and I know
some of you never experienced it because if you were
(20:30):
in the north, you probably didn't really have the same
thing often. But it was a really magical like I felt.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And I we'll say my mother was a part of
that because during that big ninety three blizzard, it was
a blizzard. I think it was like we had a
couple of feet of snow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It was a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And for us who were very underprepared living in a
rural area where we did not have power for at
least like ten days, like we had to figure out
where to go and take showers because nothing was working well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
See a lot of people in cities don't have well
and ours would do that too. And you can't flush
the toilet like you have to do all these things.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We had to melt snow like literally, Yeah, but I
also remember having my mother for the first time making
snow cream and not knowing what that was because we
never had enough snow, clean snow because really dirty hair,
real quick, but clean snow to make that. And I
remember her making that for us and how magical that was,
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and me wanting that from then on and never be
able to really get it me because it snow like
that again, But like having those moments of that kind
of magic having again like the food on the fireplace,
which felt like I think every child had that dream
of living in the old days with no electricity, writing
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by like a little lit lamp, even though in reality
we would have been well, probably died early, but exactly
it was still a fantasy to romanticize that era, but
it felt like we were living that era. On top
of the fact that my older siblings all had to
play with us. Yeah, I'm sure we argued a lot,
and we really got out of each other's nerves, but
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I remember like the board games and the card games,
and as a family who never played together like we didn't.
My siblings were older than me, so they were gone.
A lot of the times. My brother and I wanted
to kill each other half the time because we were
too close in age and he did not want a
younger sibling. Let's be real, honest, all those things, and
then my family, my parents definitely could not because they
were exhausted and tired and working all day and they
(22:30):
never played board games. For the bether gut, it never happened.
So this made us come together and play games. And
I was like, this is so great. I love every
bit of this. I get the cuddle next to my
sister and we're playing card games. Well I'm eating snow cream.
So yeah, that's definitely like a core memory that I
will treasure because it felt so foreign and so happy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, me too. I have several like that.
One of my favorite memories is a good friend of
the show, Katie been on the show. Her birthday is
coming up. One time it snowed on her birthday and
I made her a rainbow cake and we made hot chocolate,
and we made this favor. She had a strawberry orange
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juice thing she loved. But we built snowmen, and my
mom always helped with that. Every time it snowed, we
built snowmen, and we also I made a ramp of
snow down the stairs and then our ramp at the
bottom going up made of snow, and my mom I
was like, they did it home alone, and she was like, okay,
and it worked everyone. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I mean, those are the days that I remembered as well.
And I really hope that these kids get to have
some of these memories and get out of you know,
because don't get me wrong, I definitely am a media
centered inside person, but like having those kind of memories
as something that I will all treasure. And it's again
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like for us in the South once again, I know
we have so many listeners who are not from the
South are like, come on, get you who are like
we just want to shovel to us freaking snow and
be able to walk outside. Like yes, for us, we're like,
we want to dance in this now for a minute.
But it was it was so rare, you know, it
is so rare for us to have a moment of
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these occasions. It's nice. So I hope, I hope other
people can be able to share these memories. We would
love to hear about your memories listening.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stuff
One Never Told You, production by Heart Radio, and welcome
to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you
are choosing to drink or whatever you're doing, jink responsibly.
(00:27):
Are you sipping on anything, Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I got my bubbly water happening over here. Keep it
keeping it light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
How about you? I, as you saw me struggle to open,
have a can of sake. It is snow related, which
is perfect. The name is snow related, which is perfect
for this episode. But it is cold, so it's both
cold here and the sake is cold. Yeah, but I
(00:54):
wanted I'm a nerd and I like making things a
line where I can, so yeah, but yes, I did
have another Happy Hour planned for this one, but I
thought we would talk about snow days instead, and just
to acknowledge, there's a lot going on. We've got wildfires,
(01:17):
we've got freezing temperatures. It's just a lot. So we
hope that you are all okay, and I think this
will be interesting. I would love to hear from listeners
because I think my experience with snow days, I'm going
to assume it's very similar for you Samantha is that
(01:40):
is something that would make a lot of people where
it snows more often roll their eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right, Oh, absolutely, As in fact, I had recently had
a conversation about that. They're like, no, I moved here
for a reason, no snow, and I'm like, I just
want to help it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah. Yeah, So listeners please write in with your opinions.
And I do have a little I resea this actually
a little bit last night, and I'll put it at
the end about women in snow days because as we
record this, it bite snow. It looks like it's going
to snow tomorrow. In Georgia where we are, that is
(02:15):
pretty rare, and it causes a lot of I feel
like I don't have school tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Or right there is this feeling of gettiness and throwing
you back into childhood, especially again for us who typically
don't get snow on the regular, and when we do
it's odd timing. So I know North Georgia so lived
in the foothills of Appalachia. Literally we would get more
(02:43):
snow than most of the people in Georgia. But even
when we did, because we were in a rural town,
it was still exciting because we would have school off,
and we would anticipate wake up early or be excitedly
waiting the night before to see if we had school
or no school, And there was something to be said
about like not having school. During my middle school years,
(03:06):
we had one of the biggest nos of Georgia, and
we were out of school for like weeks, a couple
of weeks, and then had to extend to having like
thirty minute extra long days into the summer so we
could have enough accredit at time that was not so
much fun. But before besides those times and then going
(03:28):
into adulthood, being because I worked for the government, so
the government is already in the state of Georgia have
already said that they would not they would all be
closed tomorrow, their offices would be closed. Everybody be either
working remote or not working at all. So I remember
that excitement too.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, And I think that is the biggest thing
that I feel bad about when I talk about it
from like my perspective is that I know outside of
the South you still go still go to school or
go to work. But even on top of that, and
I would love for people to write in who have
(04:06):
kids now, I think you don't really get the school day.
I think you have virtual teaching a lot of times,
so it's not the same like excitement.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, the Internet doesn't solve everything, obviously, not everything. Not
everything anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think the first year I moved because my family
lived in Alaska for a while, I don't really have
anything to do with that, but when we moved from
southern Georgia to northern Georgia when I was very not
very young, but like I don't know, kindergarten somewhere there. Yeah,
(04:43):
it snowed like in April, and I remember thinking, what
I think.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The majority of our bigs nose honestly, in the state
of Georgia is usually March April. It's never actual winter winter.
It's weird at the beginning of spring.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, but we've I mean it. And it was as
a kid. I'm sure again I'm gonna talk about this
more then. I'm sure it wasn't as fun for my parents,
but as a kid, I remember. I'm not sure if
we're talking about the same storm, but I remember one.
It was like the last week of it was right
before Christmas or something. It was like right before a
(05:23):
break and I was mad because a bunch of my
friends got out of doing a final assignment that I
had already done. But it was just you couldn't get
anywhere because we lived kind of I wouldn't say a mountain,
but we lived up a steep road and it was
treacherous and in fact, they used to call my house
(05:43):
when they were deciding whether or not to cancel school,
like how icy is it outside? And it was. It
stuck around for several weeks and it was mostly ice
and not snow. But I remember the power was out
for we were cooking things over a fire. We were
all sleep being in the same room, and we were
playing board games and stuff, and I loved it because
(06:05):
again I was a kid, and I was like, this
is the coolest, right, but I didn't have to deal
with the stressors of how are we gonna feed these kids? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, it's the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's when I moved to That's the one that happened. Yes,
when I moved to Delanago. That's where it's where I
moved in it. I remember it was the first year
I was there was this normal.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, it was not. The National Guard had to be
called out apparently, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, well that's another thing. We've talked about this before
on the show. I mean, we do here in the
South get a lot of ribbing and teasing and a
lot of it's there, but some of it is like
we don't have the infrastructure because it doesn't normally snow,
or at least not in a substantial amount that's going
to hang around for a long time. So we've had
(07:03):
every like ten fifteen years for a while, we have
what we call like snowpocalypses or the Great Snowjam or whatever,
and it's where there's just massive traffic. I was. I
was caught one for fourteen hours once and it was horrible.
I was crying.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I was like, no, this it's awful. Like the things
that happened, it brought both brought a community together. It
also made us all very angry at our guns at
the time because they were so lacking.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, they like canceled everything at the worst time in
the experience I'm thinking of. It was like the worst
time they could have called things all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It was already snowing, right, are you talking about the snowpocalypse.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, they were two that kind of happened in close
ish years. I'm talking a Yeah, I think I'm talking
about the first one, the.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Stem first clips. Yeah, Like I think that's the one
that everybody's like, we, y'all, we can't do this because
literally because we're sleeping at schools.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah. Yeah. It was wild, like they opened, stores would
open and have people come in. People were abandoning their cars.
My car slid out. I was almost home and it
slid out, and this group of people had tarps and
they were helping people move their cars and I just
put it in a random spot and I was like,
(08:25):
I'll get you later, car. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The reason it's called the Snowpocalypse is because the way
the roads were just indeed but had abandoned cars everywhere.
It looked like the coming of the end.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It looked like the Walking Dead. A lot of people
did a lot of shots of just how comparison side
by side of how much it looked like the Walking Dead.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm not gonna lie. This was my moment of I
will talk about it till this day when people bring
this up, because I was so proud of my intuition,
because I was not fooling with anybody. Because I was
working in Kawita County noon in Georgia, which is a
good twenty five minutes without traffic type of commute. So
I was like, it's starting to snow. They're saying it's
(09:11):
gonna keep snowing. I'm leaving, like I literally got up,
made an announcement to my boss and I was like,
I'm leaving, and he looked at me. He's like, but
it hasn't been I was like, I don't care. I'm
like and he was very nice, like he was like, okay,
I'm like, I live too far away. I'm not staying here.
And he was like, okay, I guess be careful. And
by the time I made it home is when everybody
(09:31):
was like, oh my god, the road roads are frozen.
Roads are frozen, and yeah. I was like, that's correct.
I was right. And I went to my little grocery store,
which was not it's like a boutique grocery stores or
everything is extra expensive, but they have really nice wines.
I took the bottle of wine and my popcorn. I
was like, that's right, fools, I'm at home.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That is awesome. I remember times when school will be
canceled just at the hint there could be because we
these things have happened, and we know.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's back and forth because we've had those moments where
people make fun of us because they're like, there may
be snow. Cancel school for a week and then and
then everybody's made fools of and they're like, we'll never
do that again. Oh they're possibly snow. Yeah, we trust
to do last time. And then they're all stuck in
the ice. And that's the biggest problem is like we're
(10:35):
not really worried about the snow. The way temperature works
in the South, with the humidity level and everything that
freezes over so quickly, and the fact that we are
so underprepared, like we don't ice think, we don't assault things.
I think at the time of the snow apocalypse, there
was like seven mobiles in the state, in the whole state,
So they had to like emergency call people out and
(10:57):
be like, oh, I gotta fix this, gotta fix this.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Do you read snowflowers.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sorry, snowboo bills, Yes, snowflass but I'm gonna calls for
the rest but like it makes sense to me, But yeah,
the whole thing is like they did not have that
many because the South is so underfunded. That's not something
that they look at the amount of funding that they
put into anything for the community we know is lacking.
For anti trans policies, tons of money, tons of money
(11:27):
for taking money away from older generations. Tons of money.
This like aloof possible dangers of all the immigrants coming in,
tons of money, but anything actually useful, like schools, or
they do fix the roads. They do a lot of
(11:47):
construction on roads. I will give them that they do,
just not in preventing accidents they do.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is it a headache, yes, but is it necessary also yes,
so they tell me. But yeah, I mean that's it
is funny to me because I've had so many conversations.
It's just so different based on where you are about this.
This whole conversation around snow and snow days and like
(12:16):
everybody here, I mean people are going to the store,
they're clearing it out. Like my friend was just texting
me she couldn't find like a warm coat and all this.
Oh no, oh my goodness, me, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Trying to find a scarf for our trip to New
York when I was expecting possible snow there. This was
before I was like, oh no, there's warmer in New
York than it is in Georgia right now. But like,
I couldn't find a scarf anywhere it was.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
She couldn't find a scarf either. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh Georgia, do you not believe in scars? They're so cute.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I love a good scarf, I know, great fashion piece, great.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Fashion piece, and keep your neck warm, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Very warm. But yeah, I mean I have. I would,
I really would love for listeners writing about this because
because no one is so rare where we are, I
do have like these horrible I spent fourteen hours in
a car, but I also have really lovely like one
(13:18):
one year it's not on Christmas, and that was amazing,
just like the picture. Oh it was so nice.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's like that, this is what I talked about when
I'm trying to find the Christmas spirit. That's what I wanted. Annie.
That one did not freaking get it get.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You got the delay of the time, but you didn't get.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Got so much delayed, very angry annoyed partner by the
end of because he's like, if this doesn't stop, I'm
gonna throw something. But no, like I and that's because
I also remember that and we had again. I was
in Lja, Georgia, and my property was completely blanketed in snow.
We were sitting by a nice fire and there's this
(14:03):
like lamp post that my family has, my parents had
put in and the way it looked, it looked like
a scene out of Narnia.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it was so perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I was like, this is be beautiful the.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
One Yeah yeah at one time. One other time I
was in Alabama in it snowed, but it was like
the barest dusting of snow on Christmas. But as a kid,
I was like, yes, yeah, this is the best. So
I really like it. I honestly, I'm we're gonna wake
(14:35):
up early. The sad thing is you we You never know,
it might just be sleep. It could just be sleep,
and I'm up here at seven am. I'm like, what,
where's the snow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I'm gonna be disappointed, just like I wasn't disappointed in
childhood when I would wake up to see if there
was any snow and there was nothing but ice and crunchiness.
I feel the same way. I'm excited about it. I've
actually plan to breakfast oh for my partner and I
and it's gonna be like the like the bare minimum,
but like because I want to see the snow as well.
(15:09):
I'm really excited about having my dog playing snow because
for the most part in the last her lifetime, there's
barely been any that's a little bit but enough, not
enough to play and even this time it won't be
enough to play in honestly, but having an open backyard
where for the first time it's my house, you know
that I own with a nice backyard just for her
(15:33):
and want her to play in it to see what
she thinks of it, because she is a hot natured creature,
So I want that to happen like That's part of
my excitement. And my partner has been laughing at me,
like kindly, like not not anything mean, because I have
for the past since the announcement of this arctic freeze,
have been looking at the weather to see if we
(15:53):
would get snow and asking our smart devices if it's
gonna snow and how much snow we're gonna happen. They
keep lying to me telling me there's no snow, and
then I'll be like asking about a specific day and
they'll be like, yeah, two inches of snow. I'm like, wait,
which is it. Stop lying because it's hurting my feelings.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It is funny, but that, honestly, that is what we are.
Like at this time, We're like, who is it gonna snow?
Are You're checking like every hour for the next day
like it was gonna happen. I get text from friends
and it's like, oh, I've heard it's gonna be two inches,
so I've heard one seven. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I think I'm right on the outskirts of it. So
it looks like one inch maybe with possible two inches
because even though you and I are so close together. Yeah,
the like difference is apparently fairly massive enough to be
like a pretty big change, like you'll have rain when
I don't have rain, or vice versa. Like, yeah, deftly
had those moments which rain is not, you know, uncommon,
(16:50):
like we know how that goes isolated thunderstorms and such.
But like for the like weather changes like that that
you would think it wouldn't be too massive difference, but
it's almost predicting, like a half an inch difference from
our Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Mm hmm. I'm gonna be so sad if it doesn't
happen at all.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It's I'm gonna be it's just gonna rain, not more right, right,
I mean, but it does bring like for those of
you who are not in the south and who experience
winter pretty heavily and would rather not.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I understand. I get that because we get that with
the humidity. But even like in this conversations before, we
talked about people experiencing the weather a little differently, like
what our winter is versus others. But like when it's
cold here, the cold is different. Cold is different here,
even though the degrees may seem similar, the way that
it is effective, the way the wind hits, the way
(17:53):
the humidity hits, like, it's just different. Like I've loved
the watching people and be like I'm from Colorado, from
this like northern area, but it still feels like it's
colder here, like they've said that so many times, which
like feels very validating because but it's only a short
period of time.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Literally maybe a week, like one day, and then all
of your plants die and then.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Have to kill all through a spirit and then.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And then it doesn't again a month later. Yeah, so
we'll see, we'll report back. I'm planning on frolicking if
there's snow. Atlanta does what's called hoff Atlanta and Piedmont Park,
(18:42):
and I'm going, yes, if it snows, I'll be back
at a reasonable hour because we have.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
To record tomorrow because I'm a procrastinator.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
But I will be back because I think the snow
is going to happen early.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, it's gonna seven am.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's gonna change to sleep and then freezing rain, which
is not as fun. I want the snow part. But
that does bring me to what I've been teasing this
whole time. I did look it up, and I think
this is no surprise to anyone, but working mothers don't
love snow days. They don't get the break, especially like
(19:24):
if it is for a long term. I don't think
this is the case in northern states, but in southern states,
like the stores might close, you might have a real
difficult time getting to if you need food or something
like that. You can, it's just not easy. And so
I read several essays from women who were mothers who
(19:46):
were like, I hate snow days. I'm just gonna admit it.
I don't get to go play in the snow. I
gotta do this. I gotta do this, I gotta keep working.
And usually help with nowadays the virtual lesson, which is
sad because I kind of I feel bad for the
loss of the snow day. Yeah, I really do, because
(20:09):
I mean we don't have it off either, and I
mean I'm not even saying we should, but like technically
working tomorrow, we are working tomorrow. I'm still going to
get up early and frolic around, but that would be working, yes,
But I do, like I think it's and I know
some of you never experienced it because if you were
(20:30):
in the north, you probably didn't really have the same
thing often. But it was a really magical like I felt.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And I we'll say my mother was a part of
that because during that big ninety three blizzard, it was
a blizzard. I think it was like we had a
couple of feet of snow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It was a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And for us who were very underprepared living in a
rural area where we did not have power for at
least like ten days, like we had to figure out
where to go and take showers because nothing was working well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
See a lot of people in cities don't have well
and ours would do that too. And you can't flush
the toilet like you have to do all these things.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We had to melt snow like literally, Yeah, but I
also remember having my mother for the first time making
snow cream and not knowing what that was because we
never had enough snow, clean snow because really dirty hair,
real quick, but clean snow to make that. And I
remember her making that for us and how magical that was,
(21:26):
and me wanting that from then on and never be
able to really get it me because it snow like
that again, But like having those moments of that kind
of magic having again like the food on the fireplace,
which felt like I think every child had that dream
of living in the old days with no electricity, writing
(21:48):
by like a little lit lamp, even though in reality
we would have been well, probably died early, but exactly
it was still a fantasy to romanticize that era, but
it felt like we were living that era. On top
of the fact that my older siblings all had to
play with us. Yeah, I'm sure we argued a lot,
and we really got out of each other's nerves, but
(22:09):
I remember like the board games and the card games,
and as a family who never played together like we didn't.
My siblings were older than me, so they were gone.
A lot of the times. My brother and I wanted
to kill each other half the time because we were
too close in age and he did not want a
younger sibling. Let's be real, honest, all those things, and
then my family, my parents definitely could not because they
were exhausted and tired and working all day and they
(22:30):
never played board games. For the bether gut, it never happened.
So this made us come together and play games. And
I was like, this is so great. I love every
bit of this. I get the cuddle next to my
sister and we're playing card games. Well I'm eating snow cream.
So yeah, that's definitely like a core memory that I
will treasure because it felt so foreign and so happy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, me too. I have several like that.
One of my favorite memories is a good friend of
the show, Katie been on the show. Her birthday is
coming up. One time it snowed on her birthday and
I made her a rainbow cake and we made hot chocolate,
and we made this favor. She had a strawberry orange
(23:20):
juice thing she loved. But we built snowmen, and my
mom always helped with that. Every time it snowed, we
built snowmen, and we also I made a ramp of
snow down the stairs and then our ramp at the
bottom going up made of snow, and my mom I
was like, they did it home alone, and she was like, okay,
and it worked everyone. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I mean, those are the days that I remembered as well.
And I really hope that these kids get to have
some of these memories and get out of you know,
because don't get me wrong, I definitely am a media
centered inside person, but like having those kind of memories
as something that I will all treasure. And it's again
(24:10):
like for us in the South once again, I know
we have so many listeners who are not from the
South are like, come on, get you who are like
we just want to shovel to us freaking snow and
be able to walk outside. Like yes, for us, we're like,
we want to dance in this now for a minute.
But it was it was so rare, you know, it
is so rare for us to have a moment of
(24:31):
these occasions. It's nice. So I hope, I hope other
people can be able to share these memories. We would
love to hear about your memories listening.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
We would and I would love yeah, give us wherever
you are. How different it is if it's the same,
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