snow?

"If someone spits on the road in Kentucky, and it freezes, schools are cancelled." - A Kentucky Saying, related to me by the librarian today 

I would like to saw that this is an exaggeration, but I feel like it's really not. 1/4 of an inch will have every county in a three hour radius shut down.

Partly, this is silly. Especially coming from New England and watching UNH buses in ditches on the side of the road while five feet of slushy, icey, wintery mix piles up and schools waffles and hedge and haw and then compromise with a "2 HOUR DELAY". Curtailed operations were just a beautiful dream to be awoken from at 8am by your alarm clock, to clean two feet of snow off your car and follow three salt trucks and two plows down backroads to show up late to a class that started right on time, as usual. Bummer.

So sometimes Kentucky seems ridiculous. All schools closed, CAP vehicles grounded, nobody leave their houses because there is ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF SNOW EVERYWHERE! NOBODY PANIC! EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL!

But conversely, the roads here are so crazy, narrow, and windy that it actually does get super dangerous to drive on them. I heard (also from the librarian) that a couple years ago ABC News made a jab at Jackson County on national TV for having one of the highest school closing rates for snow in the country. And then they sent a crew down here, and drove them down some "hollers" with 180 degree curves on the edge of mountains dropping into ravines, slick with that much-mocked 1/8 of an inch of snow - and ABC retracted their apology.

So all this to say that yeah, we skipped church this morning, because "snow was coming in." Me and L, from Wisconsin, swapped stories about how back in the day, back home, we would never ever skip anything because of snow, forget about potential snow. We're becoming real Kentuckians!