Winter Warnings

Just about everything in the greater Houston area is closed this morning - all due to a winter storm that would probably be just another November day in St Louis or Des Moines.
Yesterday, the forecast called for a chance of freezing precipitation - sleet or snow - with dropping temperatures that mean it might actually stick around for 24 hours or more.  So far, we have had a light dusting of sleet here at the Boggy Thicket, and the temperature dropped below freezing shortly after dawn.
An abundance of caution is probably a good thing, but our reaction has got to be causing a lot of laughs in the rest of the country.