Winter storms or just a few inches of snow are such anomalies in wake county that it cannot comprehend what to do when the strange white powder arrives. For instance, WRAL called for a whopping "four inches of snow", so when the trucks went out to put calcium chloride on the roads to stop the snow from sticking, it was a fruitless effort. For the majority of the night, there was no snow, just cold sleet that made it dangerous to step foot outside. The hours of sleet wiped away all the effort and made the roads even slicker. Furthermore, the call for snow gone wrong has turned the weather channel into another Twitter sensation joke. On Christmas just a little over two weeks ago, it was 70 degrees and now WRAL is saying the screwball temperature could get into the single digits tomorrow.

Whenever snow comes to wake county, wide panic ensues. Stores go out of essential foods such as bread and milk. People barricade themselves in their houses as if we are at war with winter. Just the other day I saw an ad on craigslist that was selling milk and bread for one hundred dollars. Can you imagine that?

Whenever there is snow in Wake County, one never knows how long places will be closed, how long power will be out, or how long it will take for the roads to dethaw. When hope is looking up as it turns 45 degrees, the temperature drops to well below freezing during the night making everything dangerous in the morning again. You cannot blame people for not knowing how to properly drive in these conditions it never snows here. No wonder people expect not to go anywhere. Wake County does not have the equipment to properly take care of the ice on the roads either. Yes, we have plows, but we need sand trucks and salt trucks and everything in between to stop the parade of accidents before it starts.

Now, I am not saying Wake County is all bad, I mean who doesn't enjoy two weeks off from school because of ice during the middle of finals?