This past weekend, Floyd County was expecting snow because the week before the weather apps seemed certain that snowflakes were headed down south. In the grocery stores, the shelves were wiped clear in a mass frenzy of preparing before the blizzard. Students were excited because the shared sentiment was that with the snowstorm school would be canceled if not for a day, but for multiple. But now that the snowstorm has passed, the schools of Floyd County only got Monday off, and the mass blizzard that was expected to hit was nothing but freezing temperatures and icy winds.

“It made me so mad that it didn’t snow because how did it snow in Texas and not here?” sophomore Zeinab Wade wondered. “Also, they canceled school because of ice, but I didn’t see ice. I mean, sure, I am glad school was canceled, but it was propaganda. I’m so mad because I woke up the next day, so excited. I ran out of my room and stared at the window we have in the lounge and I did not see snow. I saw trees, dead trees.”

Even though Wade said ice was not here on campus, there were reports of ice in Rome and surrounding areas.

“I was kind of disappointed because I was really looking forward to the snow,” sophomore Mia Grioni said. “My mom went to get a sled because she was so excited that it was gonna snow. She was the 100th customer, and she got it for free, so that made me really excited. Also, it always says it is going to snow and then it never does.”

Grioni is commenting on the seemingly annual fake snow reports, where snow or sleet is predicted but residents wind up with nothing but, as Wade said, dead trees and cold temperatures.

“If it snowed, I would be so excited that I would go outside, run and jump in the snow. What told me it was going to snow was the weather app on my phone and people, like Adeline Spears. I was also disappointed because my weather app literally said snow, it said snow in five minutes on my phone, and that did not happen,” Wade said.