It's Cold in Memphis Tonight

It is FREEZING outside! I don't particularly like cold weather. Actually, I don't like it much at all. When my body gets cold it seems to take hours and hours for my body to warm itself back up. As it defrosts it's frozen limbs, the pain is intense. My already extremely low blood pressure gets lower and I can hardly move. The only thing that I can do to get warm is to jump into a warm bubble bath or snuggle against another human. Warm water or body heat usually begin to warm my bones but the pain stings as it does.

I would much prefer bright and hot sunshine. While I don't care to be unable to breath in thick humid hot weather, I love regular kind of sunshine with little humidity. The cold weather moving into our Memphis, TN metropolitan area today started the all to familiar mad rush of people dashing to and from the grocery store, gas stations and hurrying them towards home several hours early from school and work. By the way, I have never understood the gas station lines.

My children arrived home 2 hours early from school today. I didn't get to get off work any earlier than my normal part-time off hour. By the time I drove home which would have been the normal time the kids get home from school, the streets looked fine to me. Certainly they were passable. I looked in every direction and I didn't see any signs of ice or snow anywhere.

Perhaps the idea that a few snowflake flurries or a handful of ice pellets landing anywhere in the surrounding Memphis area excites some enough to want to fill their cars up with gasoline, get home to bundle up with a cup of hot soup from Kroger, and then press their noses against the window to watch. The Memphis area doesn't get very much snow. The cold water we typically get is icy and I suppose more dangerous. Dangerous or not, it is my opinion that Memphians don't exactly know what to do when they are behind the wheel and on an icy or snowy road. It isn't like we have lots and lots of snow plows sitting around to clear the roads.

While I don't like the cold, cold weather, I do sort of get a kick out of all the businesses and schools that are quick to close and all the people scurrying around. I also enjoy the fact that I am often benefited with less time at work and more time at home with my kids and husband! Maybe if I join the Memphis crowd and panic as I make my way home I'll be sure to encourage the city to allow us all to have a day off...I just might just have to do that.