As cool and unusual as it is, it's just frozen rain! Just about every business and school in the area is closed! They are acting like it is another hurricane, yet MORE places are closed for this half-day of light snow than for a "regular" hurricane! I guess it's all what you're used to.
The people around here would not survive a few hundred miles to the north. I drove about 30 miles and back and you should see the carnage on side of the roads. Unbelievable. The cars that I saw in the ditches on my way out were flooded on my way back because the ditches were full of water from the snow melting. People DO NOT know how to drive down here.