punxsutawney phil vs. general beau lee

why does the south (specifically georgia) feel the need to have it's own groundhog? general beau lee has been giving georgians their weather forcast for the past fifteen years and before that it was his uncle general robert lee for ten. i have no idea if it has been going on longer than that (though the punxsutawney groundhogs have been going at it for for about 120 years).

anyway, general beau says it's supposed to be an early spring and i currently think he's full of shit. it's been freezing all weekend and tomorrow the weather channel is predicting snow flurries. snow flurries.

i am way too excited at the prospect of anything remotely snow related. with the plans for chicago lined up i was hoping that we'd get some some while there (lord knows it's going to be cold enough), but definitely not here-- not with beau's 97% accuracy rate. of course the year he was wrong georgia saw it's worst blizzard ever (good old 1993! i remember you well).

tomorrow i am going to buy some long johns. just the thought of them makes me warm (though not really-- our house it set at 65 because our gas bill was too high).