Folks who live in points farther north than, oh, say, Virginia, have no idea just how really crazy and stupid we behave at the mere hint of snow in the South.

I had a new boss one time from Illinois, and when they began assuring us of snow flurries, we were discussing closing the plant. He couldn't figure out why, and I told him that my advice was to stay off the roads if there was any snow, that people get quite dangerous around here.

He told me a few days later that he thought I was crazy until he saw a couple of cars in the ditch and was almost run off the road trying to get home. And it wasn't even sticking yet.

Such in life in Dixie. We just don't do snow well although we love it.

I don't think we had any real snow in Atlanta in about 10 years or so.