How to Create a Run On Stores in the South

I have lived in the South for two-thirds of my life.  My first eleven years were spent in Philadelphia, and most of my thirties were spent in Delaware.  All of the other years were spent in Tennessee and Georgia.  Even though I’ve lived in the South more than in the North, I don’t feel like a Southerner.  One of the things that puzzle me is Southerners’ reaction to snow.

If the weather forecast says it might snow, stores here sell out of bread, milk eggs and other staples.  I don’t get it.  Schools close and church services get canceled.  Today it started snowing around 10:30 AM.  There were huge snow flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground with a little accumulation on the grass and cars.  Guess what, by 5:00 PM churches had canceled their evening services and schools announced Monday closings.  I looked outside at 6:00 and the streets were bone dry.

People, it’s a little snow, not a blizzard.  Why not wait until Monday morning and see if there are dangerous driving conditions before canceling school.  That’s just another wasted day that students will have to make up and a day parents will lose from work because someone has to stay home with the kids.  Stop panicking, it’s only a little snow!

So, how do you create a run on stores?  Get the local meteorologist to forcast snow, that’l do it!