If you thought this area was bad when it came to snowstorms, and the ensuing rush to the grocery store, and the total lack of ability to drive in the stuff, be glad you didn’t live in Raleigh, which is contemplating a dress-rehersal blizzard to prepare everyone for the next time it snows.

The city ground to a halt as workers and schoolchildren tried to get home in the midst of a midday snowfall. Officials, relying on forecasts of only a dusting of snow, didn’t send out road-treatment trucks until after the snow was falling and the streets were jammed with vehicles.

Only a little snow fell, but as it hit the roads’ cold surfaces, it was melted by the friction of car tires and instantly refroze into a sheen of black ice. Drives that usually take minutes turned into ordeals lasting into the wee hours, and 3,000 pupils had to spend the night at their schools.

I think the assorted, random comments the Mayor’s office recieved were just the absolute funniest.

“You guys must be useless,” wrote Ashlea Simpson from Washington state. “An inch of snow IS a mere dusting. Hope you survive this ‘disaster.’ “

Spelling aside, I hope this isn’t Ashlee “My dad hired a voice coach who cost forty-two hundred bucks a session and he walked out after an hour” Simpson, and if it isn’t, how fucking pissed do you think this woman is when she has to tell everyone, “No, I didn’t fucking blame my band you douche” when she’s writing a check?

“God is in control of weather and HE can change it as quickly as HE pleases,” wrote Susan Reynolds from San Antonio. “In fact, in the Bible it says that the weather will be crazy in the last days.”

Soon Jesus Christ will walk along the land and we’ll all be proven wrong under the Christian-sponsored smackdown. Yeee-hah!