Snow In The South (A Precious Thing)

Whenever I talk to someone from "up north", there are many questions that they ask me about the south. But the question I get asked the most is, "why do southern people go crazy over snow?". There's actually a very easy answer for that. People from the Midwest, the Great Lakes and New England see snow as a nuisance, a scourge or an inconvenience. They have to shovel it, drive in it, go to work and school in it. It can be a major headache. But in the south, where there are very few snow plows, entire states sometimes shut down due to just a couple of inches of the white stuff. So a lot of people don't have to go to work or school in it. They don't have to drive in it...so it's less of a headache, and more of a chance to have fun and take a brief pause from life's worries to look outside the window at how beautiful mother nature, and life itself can be.

That's my theory anyway, because that's what it means to me.