Southern Snow.

Today I posted a tweet and a Facebook status about the snow we are supposed to get in South Carolina. Unlike the Northerners, Southerners don't know how to deal with snow, which usually happens once every few years. This winter, though, was an unusually cold one. Don't get me wrong, we had crazy weather still, like 70 degrees today with a low of 27 degrees tonight. People down here really freak out about snow and cold weather, which gets me a little frustrated.

For example, the first week of school after Christmas break, most of the public schools here had a delay because of "cold weather." The high was 30-something degrees. I still went to school and probably did more walking outside in the cold than the little elementary kids did, mainly because they have a nice warm building with halls to all their classes and I have mother nature to walk through to my classes. A delay for cold weather? Yes, that's how crazy Southerners are.

And now today. There is a high chance for a "winter storm" to come through our state tomorrow around noon and get worse into Wednesday. We are supposed to get 4-6 inches of snow, which is unusual for South Carolina. But is bad enough that all the bread at the local Walmart was sold out? I mean completely bare shelves. Pretty much all the schools are canceled for tomorrow and Wednesday, which of course I am happy about, but no one on Facebook will shut up about it! Which brings me to my point about this whole post and the first sentence. My tweet and status looked like this : "I need to get bread and milk!" Sorry to tell y'all, but it's not a blizzard. I think you will survive. What about those homeless people?" I posted this because after seeing and hearing about the snow, I thought of one man in our city that is always walking around because he has no place to go. I wondered what would happen to him. This one status got many comments saying I was a Debbie Downer and "This is a major life event." It's a major life event that many people are going to be very cold while the rest of us are warm in bed? I know what you're thinking, "So what are you going to do?" I'm not sure. I don't know where to go to help people, but one of my friends on Facebook said that there are some churches in town that take them in during the Winter/cold weather, which I am thankful for. I know for sure that I will be praying for the homeless and those without heat, and also for the kind people that are taking people in.

Besides wanting to help people more and trying to motivate myself to do so, the moral of this story is to stop opening up my mouth and voicing my opinion. (Although I have clearly done so once again in this post. Silly me.) I've learned that people don't really care what they say back to you in a status on Facebook because it's just Facebook. But let me tell you, I was just opening up your eyes to what other people are going through during this unusual weather. I'm just the messenger and I don't think I'll be voicing my opinion anymore, at least on Facebook.