As opposed to up north, where they’re clueless no matter what the weather.
Yeah, but it’s a “controlled” cluelessness… 
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(how did THAT happen ;))
I grew up in the North, and am now living in the South, and lemme tell ya something:
Most people are clueless no matter where they live, no matter what they drive, no matter what the weather. I know this is a fact, because if it wasn’t, the SDMB would have 6 billion members.
Do you mean that it shouldn’t require 4 tall glasses of milk to swallow 1 square of cornbread?? 
okay, deal.
Last time MSTU cancelled classes was in January of 1993. I know, because I was climbing into my Jeep to head to class when my landlady’s daughter came running out in her PJ’s to tell me we didn’t have class that day.
Heh, can’t really bitch about the snow, though. Thanks to it, I get to work my job in the Stop-N-Rob tonight, since the other clerk won’t be able to make it in. Think I’ll bring my alarm clock and sleep since I doubt if I’ll have too many customers :D!
Tell me about it! I had to go to Austin Peay this morning for a test. I was done by 9:15am. I live 22 miles from campus. I finally arrived home at 12 noon. 2 hours, 45 minutes to go 22 miles. So it isn’t just Nashville, the Clarksville drivers suck, too.
NOT FUN.
Wanna have lunch at Gus’s sometime? Its greasy, fatty, and loaded with nutritional death.
But its delicious.
I don’t mean they shouldn’t be careful and such, but it’s the two or three days of mass panic that the weatherpeople instill into the public. It’s like “When in trouble, when in doubt, run around, scream and shout!”
They’re cancelling school events for tonight all over, cancelling classes for tomorrow, the shelves are bare (no milk, bread), and people have been talking about it for days. That’s what I find funny, not that people can’t drive in it. (believe me, they drive like shit in NY, too)
That’s what I get for listening to a professor. He made it sound like the last time school was closed was when a T-rex got loose in the ag department or something. That long ago.
I have no idea what Gus’s is (or where it is for that matter). I have no problem having lunch (even if you’re an undergrad ).
Oh, and I did notice that they cancelled evening classes tonight…amazing.
You live near Clarksville? I was born on Ft. Campbell and lived there for 25 years or so. Spent a few nights passed out at the Kappa Sig house at APSU
Always sucked having to go up Boot Hill in the snow.
Nashville traffic is pretty bad no matter what the weather, but this is ridiculous. They’ve been predicting “snow on Thursday” for the past week. Guess what? It snowed! on Thursday! The roads aren’t even slick. It’s just that everybody’s trying to get home at the same time.
Ouch. I’m undergrad and get treated better than the GTAs in my department. I guess the professors like having their computers working.
Holy Crap! I forgot my duties as a Tennessean. I didn’t rush to the store and get any milk or bread when the snow started.
I guess the favorite snowy-day pastime in TN is eating sammiches and drinking milk. Do people in other states run out and get bread and milk at the first sign of bad weather too?
One of my professors at MT told me something to a similar effect. What’s great is that before it even started snowing, I decided to skip some class today. What beautiful timing! I’m so glad that I can be a witness to one of these rare MTSU snow days! Woohoo!
It’s not just limited to southern cities; I’ve lived in Canadian cities across the Prairies (where it always snows in winter, regularly), and people lose their minds on the first snow fall here, too. People - most of you were born and raised in Canada. You have cars with winter tires on them. You have ALL done this before. How can you forget how to do this over the four months of summer we have?!? (And yes, the SUVs I pass in the ditch with my front-wheel drive Sundance just make me laugh and laugh…)
Stocking up groceries because of snow though, that’s a completely southern thing. I’ve never felt the need to stock up on food in winter, even when living in northern Manitoba, where it was about -40 for about 8 months.
Apparently, it’s rare enough that someone went out, took a picture of Kirksey Old Main, and put it on the website. That picture was up within an hour of the snow starting.
Those ITD guys work quick.
They do it from time to time in NY- when they call for 18" plus. Still, in my 32 years living there, I think I got “snowed in” twice, ever. And that was for about 3 days. I mean, can’t you eat something else? I don’t know- I guess they all stay home and make bread pudding over an open fire in the yard?
I’m finally home!
FIVE HOURS!!! Five damned hours!!! That’s how long it took me to get 16 miles!!! Work to home usually takes me about 45 minutes in afternoon traffic. I left 4 hours early and got home 15 minutes later than normal.
Snow day my ASS!