Why Does Anyone Live in the South?

[@kmc6506]

Tornado siren means it's time to take the pudding to the porch so you can watch the storm

[@younglaster]

I have a fond memory of playing baseball in the front yard with my siblings during the eye of a hurricane.

[@melindawingate4397]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@cisium1184]

I came to say this very thing. I _love_ sitting on the porch during a Biblical spring rain in the South. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt and drinking watered-down lemonade.

[@kathleensuhy1875]

Exactly. You don’t want to lose the banana pudding. If it’s going to be your last meal at least be eating it while you go while you’re watching if that funnel cloud is going to actually come all the way down. You also have to make sure that wherever your tornado safe space happens to be, mines in the pantry that goes under the staircase because I live in Louisiana and I can’t have a basement, always make sure your purse and jewelry and cell phone and animals and some pillows and a blanket and alcohol are all in there. Why alcohol? Well I figure if I happen to live through it and I’m stuck under a bunch of rubble at least I can get drunk while I’m waiting for someone to save me. Good thinking huh? Comment Break - What do you call a basement in Louisiana? An indoor swimming pool. Alcohol is a natural painkiller. It also is a good disinfectant so if I got a wound I could pour it on it, not too much because I want to drink some, to make sure it doesn’t get infected. Now if the Lord blesses you and you happen to live through it and didn’t get stuck under your house make sure you go put some hair rollers in your hair real quickly. When the news comes out you have to greet them with rollers in your hair and the strongest southern accent you can come up with and you must say, it sounded like a train comin.

[@jcrefasi1]

@@kathleensuhy1875 hey girlie you know this channel is hiring, right??

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"Because it sounds like everything's constantly trying to kill you" That's just Australia

[@heatherspeck1022]

LOL, I'm not the only one who thought this. 😂

[@SnarkNSass]

That's what I've been saying!!!! Kinship😉✌🏻

[@beverlycrusher9713]

well not EVERYTHING... WELL at least...NOT... ALL... the time, yeah, not to mention keep an eye out for mosquitos, be sure to strap your babies, even your fur babies, in to the car carriers, it makes it harder for the mosquitos to carry them off and some times they get dropped and you want them to have a safe place to land.

[@dindranew.6808]

@@beverlycrusher9713 Yeah, I mean, what are the odds you get malaria, Zika, or West Nile? Or that your furbabies get heartworm? No, don't look that up--have some jambalaya.. . And it's not like there are THAT many ticks. Or brown recluses. Or aggressive cottonmouths. Here, put down the Googles and have some homemade blackberry jam. Don't pick your own though--looks snaky.

[@devinhedge]

Or the jungles of Costa Rica. Maybe not as bad as Australia.

[@ADMusic1999]

You forgot to warn her about the mosquitoes. They don't care what time of year it is. If it's snowing outside, they'll just put on their little skeeter coats and still bite you like crazy.

[@elizabethcherry3933]

Skeeter coats 😂

[@aislinngraves4291]

right???!!!!! Totally a thing!

[@bch5513]

State bird??

[@michellebrown3563]

And get big enough the carry a car away, lol

[@davidgoza5620]

And the freaking gnats! When I first got to Dodge S.P., I thought two things at my first breakfast: 1. The guys were super friendly, waving at everybody and 2. They sure put a lot of pepper on the grits. I got my tray and realized everyone was trying to keep the gnats away from their faces and food to no avail.

[@k4kfh]

"There's a really good week in October" "When?" "Oh we don't know" Ain't that the truth

[@MstangMch4]

We call that week "Fall".

[@RockSmithStudio]

There's usually a bye week most college football teams that month

[@Eksile8]

My wife came from a state where the seasons are as predictable as whats in meteorological text books. After she moved to the south, I told her to get used to seasons starting when ever the hell they feel like it.

[@brianhall4182]

I always thought that week came in November, myself.

[@blizzgamerchic]

Yep... still waiting.

[@amandajinx4463]

Real conversation Sirens go off. Mom ignores it for a good 20 minutes. "Oh its not Thursday is it?" "No, its Saturday." Mom starts rushing around cause its not a test day. Shuffles us downstairs cause you know, tornadoes

[@queenofputrescence5167]

First Wednesday of the month here. 1PM. Kind of freaked out CNN reporters last month.

[@aprilmichellemetalmama0423]

I live right next door to the one in our county. Every freakin’ Wednesday at noon it goes off! We’ve had like maybe 2 tiny tornadoes in a span of 15 or 20 years. You’d think we lived in tornado alley or something! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Plus it interrupts my 2 year old’s nap time every Wednesday. 🙄

[@Birdnerd1968]

They never keep the day or time the same by us. I just look outside and put on the news, or people will start asking each other on the neighborhood app if it's legit.

[@JSchaffer214]

@@queenofputrescence5167 Same for me.

[@rooftopmelodies]

At least you have a basement. Florida doesn't know what basements are.

[@AnUnknownGoddess]

I am from the south. My son was born in Minnesota. We came from Queens New York. Moved to the south to help my dad who was ill. He came home from playing in the yard with his new friend. He asked why does everyone move and speak so slow? I told him when summer came he would understand. He rolled his eyes and went to his room. When summer came he plopped down in a chair after being outside for about ten minutes. He said he now understood why everyone moved so slow. I rolled my eyes it was only June.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Lol!😊

[@meabob]

@@deborahdanhauer8525 - I live in Michigan now. When people find out I'm from the Deep South they tend to ask why I moved up here. I say spend July and August in a sauna and you'll understand. The real reason is that I make 5 times the money here as I can back home. And contrary to what people say, the cost of living is not that much more. As I get older the deep freeze of winter is getting harder to handle.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@meabob Yeah...in many ways, the northern states are easier as long as you like snow and the cold. I don't. I really, really don't. As bad as the summers are here, they are still better than the winters are there, at least for me.😊🐝❤

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@halliegeary8701 LOL! 20° in January is 20° too cold for me. 0° is unthinkable! Naw.....you can have that weather and welcome to it my friend. I'll keep my 100 plus in the summer and consider myself lucky.😊🐝❤

[@evansfamily8156]

LOL, LOL, LOL, June!!!

[@JABS991]

Kudzu isn't trying to kill you, it just want to hug ... everything.

[@dalethelander3781]

Like an anaconda.

[@melindawingate4397]

🤣🤣

[@Sldejo]

🤣🤣💀

[@LadyBeeSting2434]

Is that what I keep trying to kill around my yard? It’s like wrapped everywhere! Haha

[@gomonkeyfly]

@@LadyBeeSting2434 they are edible. in asia, ppl eat the tips and young leaves in soup. that's why you can barely find it in asia. because they are really expensive in the market, ppl go out of their way to pick all of them off, prevent them from becoming invasive.

[@captainskippy6622]

Two years ago my wife’s brother from California wanted to visit us here in South Carolina and bring his daughter and grandkids. He chose the month of August and we strongly warned him against that but they came anyway. I honestly thought they were going to die of heat stroke the second day they were here. Life on the farm is kind of laid-back according to John Denver but it’s also hotter than the gates of hell in August. They learned a lesson about heat, humidity, and fire ants that week!

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Ahhh fire ants....proof there is a portal from hell open somewhere.😊🐝❤

[@JamesSmith-pc6bh]

Fire ants, ARGH!!!.

[@captainskippy6622]

@@deborahdanhauer8525 truth.

[@brianmccarthy5557]

Where in the hell was he from in California? I am a native (4 generations) Southern Californian. In August it can get to 120°F, though not humid. We have fire ants, even special county and state agencies for them. There are plenty of native and imported plants here that want to poke you, irritate you, cut you and kill you. We have mountain lions and coyotes (the animal kind - we have the human ones too) in the hills, canyons and mountains around us that occasionally eat people. They sometimes come into town at night. We also have earthquakes, just had one yesterday that rattled my teeth. There are huge brushfires, largely due to poor land maintenance by the various government agencies that own much of our land. We have even worse curses. Hollyweird is here, as well as Woke culture in its most developed form. We're the home of gang culture and our current law enforcement won't even arrest them. Forget Covid, we have endemic bubonic plague in the large tent cities encouraged by our rulers, which resemble something out of the Kurt Russell/John Carpenter film "Escape from New York", and which are scattered EVERYWHERE (there's a small one about a half mile from me now). The drug addicted mental cases who dwell there come out at night and roam neighborhoods in company with the coyotes, mountain lions and bears. We even had a 16 foot alligator in a slough near our local hospital. Despite reports of it attacking local dogs and cats, the authorities only captured it after it stalked some politically connected members of an approved ethnic group. There are probably more of them. We're a one-party state run by the extreme Left. Most of our public and private schools are run by "Skittles" people (taste the rainbow) who display an unusual amount of interest in the children, especially young boys, though the members of that group with two X chromosomes are interested in little girls. I know other states have the same problems, but the people responsible don't control the government and media as completely as they do here. Most of the other Southern US can look pretty good in comparison, and as a native son of native parents and grandparents I still love my state.

[@captainskippy6622]

@@brianmccarthy5557 San Jose/San Francisco. They have their own climate. And believe me I feel sorry for the good citizens of your state. The rest brought it on themselves.

[@JoeBurgettMusic]

The lack of care, and the decision to keep on eating, is literally the most southern thing there is. We're pretty much down to the idea that tornadoes are coming, so if we die...we die. Might as well finish dessert. lol

[@protorhinocerator142]

The first couple times you hear that siren it freaks you out. Kinda sounds like the Morlocks from The Time Machine are going to come and get you. And then you're all, Oh it's just Coffee County again.

[@QixTheDS]

No disaster is so dangerous that finishing dessert is the wrong choice.

[@QixTheDS]

No disaster is so dangerous that finishing dessert is the wrong choice.

[@something3530]

Some of the people in tornado alley have the same mentality tho

[@johnpatrickcosta52]

As a school kid I get excited when hurricanes come, because as a northerner who lives down south, what’s some bad rain to me is 4 days off of school to others

[@lagbait3076]

Canadian friend asked how I could live in Louisiana what with the snakes, gators and humidity. My reply; Bears, moose and snow. He said, 'Good point.'

[@donnaleeah5075]

I'm in Maine and simply love, deeply love snow. It's rare I see a bear (city gal) and moose are cute and if right quite tasty.

[@malindaallen718]

Moose: alligators of the North.

[@cajunlinks]

Louisiana Black Bears, Snakes and Rain.

[@Bhilithinn]

Yup and in some areas you have to watch out for coyotes and trash pandas (raccoons).

[@airusmajor5860]

I would love to see snow but it doesn’t snow in New Orleans

[@3p1cand3rs0n]

don’t forget the floods! i live in Nashville and every so often we like to float our houses on down the river and start over. it’s fun!

[@dalethelander3781]

Sounds like the Des Plaines River west of Chicago in the spring.

[@lulumoon6942]

That's a good belle!

[@elijahsellers3727]

I've only been to Nashville once, and it was raining cats and dogs the whole time. There was one hilly area, and we kept having to turn around on top of the hills, because halfway down there'd be a police car with his lights on and you could see all the stalled cars in the water at the bottom of the hill.

[@thelittlegarden8015]

🤣🤣🤣

[@rickchollett]

Houston floods twice a year. More if a hurricane drops in.

[@chrisrowland2223]

That pudding better have real banana slices and Nilla wafers throughout the whole thing

[@melaniezirixa1239]

Yep

[@lsufan4138]

Just how my Granny makes it.

[@chrisrowland2223]

@@lsufan4138 that's who taught me how to make fresh puddin'. We would make it and let it sit in the fridge while we shelled the pecans, broke beans, shucked corn, or processed whatever she needed help with at the time. Ain't nothing like makin' a meal from scratch.

[@jessicaaudate]

Facts

[@sheingivaway2]

Make sure it’s not the off brand Nilla Wafers because we all know that ain’t right

[@cayannap6752]

I remember walking to school with my sister seeing this house that was always trying to fight the Kudzu back. It would cover the house, yard, fence.... One morning they had cut it all down to dirt. The yard too looked like freshly tilled earth. Scraped clean of any vegetation. That same afternoon as we passed on our way home, we stopped in our tracks dumbfounded because that same yard was covered with about 2 inches of new grown Kudzu. We ran screaming all the way home.

[@yvonneyvonne2513]

I read somewhere that Kudzu leaves were edible. Believe that's the only way we'll ever get rid of it and those invasive Florida lion fish. A good cast iron skillet with a lid. Yum. Where's the whole garlic and sliced sauted Vidalias? And Grandma said hand her that big bottle of Texas Pete and her Merita Bread. Cain't have a fish fry without it.

[@brucewelty7684]

Kudzu another brilliant government idea!

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

_dang_

[@toscatattertail9813]

the roots go at least 6-12" deep and can spread for feet in either direction. and if you don't get the whole root and prevent the plant from getting sunshine it grows back

[@charlied415]

I would suggest trying goats if it's that bad.

[@oldmanjohnson69]

My favorite part, kudzu. "It's a vine", "sounds nice, where do I find it", "you don't it finds you". I had a friend that lost three beagles hunting near kudzu. The only thing kudzu fears is a goat.

[@emilee3151]

I remember one time when I was visiting NYC, a man and his son from California got on the subway absolutely drenched in sweat. He said “How are you guys not dying from this humidity??” We told him we were visiting from South Carolina and it was a dry heat compared to back home. He said “Well I guess I’m never going there!” 😂 You don’t know until you know

[@pistolpete9978]

My daughter's boyfriend Joel won a local competition and went to the nationals in St. Louis. The humidity was about 60%. The guy from Arizona said it was so humid it felt like he was swimming. Joel (from South Carolina) said the air was so dry he could hardly swallow. Nobody believed him.

[@emilee3151]

@@pistolpete9978 Sounds about right!

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

We go to Jamaica in the summer when the Yankees wont go because it's hot. The Jamaicans always warn us about the heat and we tell em...No worries we're from Houston,this is cool to us.

[@Laura-Yu]

That was me as a Californian visiting family in Korea during the summer. Their AC was broken when I visited and 30 minutes after you get out of the shower you’re already sweaty.

[@protorhinocerator142]

So true. I thought Alabama was bad until I spent a summer in Tallahassee FL. The whole month of August I didn't see the sun. It was bright out, but the humidity haze was so thick I literally couldn't tell where the sun was located. Nothing but super bright glare all around. There's a girl at work from Miami. She wears a coat in the summer. That tells me everything.

[@zaribelle718]

That ain’t a tornado siren, y’all just forgot to turn the Southern Sleep Assist off!

[@pixietwitch]

You don't really have to worry about the stray dogs. The stray alligators take care of 'em. But the Formosa termite swarms? Sugar, you are on your own!

[@WWZenaDo]

...Poor dogs...

[@Mariamne62bgl]

@@WWZenaDo Yes, horrible thought. Being a stray dog or cat anywhere is hard but to have to deal with alligators? UGH. If irresponsible/ignorant/apathetic (take your pick) people would get their pets fixed, we wouldn't HAVE a stray animal population. So frustrating.

[@WWZenaDo]

@@Mariamne62bgl You are absolutely right!

[@Mariamne62bgl]

@@WWZenaDo Preaching to the choir but thank you. It was awful to read such a cavalier attitude toward being eaten by an alligator. People are incredibly cruel.

[@michelefrederick7714]

My daughter and I were hiding in my house with the lights off Monday night! It was like the plague of termites had descended upon us for 30--40 minutes. We despise formosan termite season!!!!

[@danofcalifornia1043]

Banana Pudding is reason enough to endure everything nature can trough at you in the south.

[@hillaryvaughn4464]

Only if it’s MawMaw’s recipe from scratch. No cool whip and jello pudding in this house!

[@1804unclesam]

Unless you’re allergic to bananas... I’m going to go cry in a corner now😭😭

[@pvillelde]

@@hillaryvaughn4464 I came here to post that very sentiment! 😆🤤

[@yvonneyvonne2513]

My brother's step-baby girl brought her dear Auntie a plate from the Mother's Day celebration from the church she attends. It had Banana Pudding in a foam bowl as dessert. It was literally the best Banana Pudding I ever put in my mouth. Better than mine. Better than my late Mother's. Better than Grandma's AND all my Aunties'. The banana's were soft but not mushy/slimy and the Vanilla Pudding was lush with extra vanilla flavoring. I would honestly trade my brother's 12 gage for another bowl full. Sooo good.

[@rickymcgowen6776]

Custard pie for me.

[@GamelanSinarSurya]

“Just imagine, like a humidifier test facility- but in Hell.” 😂😂

[@patrickfullan9509]

Sounds about right, It's 84 degrees @ 8:03 in the morning here in Florida( in May).

[@jamisonlynch6437]

@@patrickfullan9509 try 97 here in SC, not even June yet.

[@charlesparr3296]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@bkane573]

100 in Pennsylvania….

[@protorhinocerator142]

You know the humidity is bad when you walk down the street and a catfish swims past your face. Also, it makes such a huge difference when it gets hot. "Triple Digit Weather" doesn't mean anything in Celsius, but it means a lot in the South. I was in a California desert once and it was 110. I laughed. That felt great. Much better than 90 in the South.

[@Tevikolady]

"HOw about October?" "October could work. There's a week in there." "Oh really? Which one, I'll put it in my calander." "Oh...we don't really know. It comes in between the hurricanes." I laughed so hard at this, because I was thinking the same thing he was saying when she kept asking about the months. rofl

[@metalboy8934]

"HOw about October?" "October could work. just a really good week in october." "Oh really? Which one, I'll put it in my calendar." "Oh...we don't really know. It comes in between the hurricanes." fixed it for ya ^^

[@melissawittman]

I've lived in NC my whole life. The only hairstyle from mid May to November is up off my neck and outta my face! 🤣

[@DivineRiffswithTiff]

Yesss!!

[@tiffanywilliams194]

True story!

[@qisaba4359]

omg yes

[@anitacalloway3032]

It’s true for me too. I can’t imagine how women wear wigs. Or long braids. It’s GOT to be 200 degrees underneath.

[@tonyaengles9570]

So true!

[@dee7353]

Kudzu: “You don’t. It finds you”. 😂😂😂 This is true. Everything about this is true. I approve this message.

[@dawnschaffner8895]

🤣🤣🤣

[@deepsleep7822]

LoL! Yeah, I got a kick out of that one.

[@TGNXAR]

That and the fire ants.

[@hcaelbxorolc]

Now, let's talk about that profile picture...

[@MrMwmussel1]

It’s less a tornado siren and more of a grab you camcorder and go to the door signal.

[@heatherspeck1022]

LOL. So true y'all!

[@heatherspeck1022]

Also I love your profile pick btw... Very unique. 🙂

[@bethshadid2087]

Heck yeah 👍

[@amorky8391]

Unless it's a Tuesday or Wednesday at noon. Then it's just test day hehe

[@bromixsr]

Don't forget the lawn chairs and the six pack.

[@LairdErnst]

“Why does anyone live down here?!” *sets down a big dish of banana pudding “Ooooh, I get it now....”

[@chriss7963]

Oh you watched it

[@cephalonplant4087]

Could also be replaced with a platter of crawfish

[@OptDK]

@@cephalonplant4087 something about seafood I just hate it

[@Laura-Yu]

Doesn’t seem that hard to access, especially since the ingredients are readily available almost everywhere in the US... now Korean food... that’s why I can’t live outside of California (there’s more options but CA has the most options).

[@Manager_Mister]

Bless her heart, she tried to make banana pudding.

[@Nurichiri]

Brushing off the siren without being a southerner, yup she's a midwesterner.

[@ellenjampole1905]

The South is a great place to live is why we live here. Food, manners, friendly people, scenery, warmth (and heat, shudder), lack of shoveling sn*w (that is an evil 4 letter word), beaches, mountains... Great video. 🧡💛💚💙❤💜 this channel.

[@alnonymous2482]

Already pushed February 2021 out of your mind, huh? Can't say that I blame you.

[@arturohernandezjr5164]

Swimming in the Gulf weather all year long... you got to love South Texas...

[@nathangabrielsen6855]

What mountains? Lol 🤣

[@8784-l3b]

Being a New Englander, it seems people live in the South because they'd rather deal with all the stuff in the video except -5F mornings, and snowfalls of 10 inches or more. The lake-effect snows of western New York state are terrible. Crazy terrible. They say winter up here is the best 5 months of the year though. Northern New England has 7 months.

[@toscatattertail9813]

@@nathangabrielsen6855 There are mountains in the northern parts of Georgia, south and north carolina and in some of the gulf states as well

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

In Soviet Dixie, kudzu finds you

[@stonewall01]

Soviet Dixie. That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

[@cquick3277]

Jesus Saves Love God✝️

[@cquick3277]

@@stonewall01 Jesus Saves Love God✝️

[@lynnlindsay4480]

My neighbor from Canada didn't know what kudzu was lol..... He's seen it just doesn't know it.

[@dalethelander3781]

@@lynnlindsay4480 In Florida, I've seen kudzu consume cars up on blocks.

[@tennesseenative2043]

I love the south. In particular I love Tennessee. I am much obliged to you all for the humor that you spin. It's great stuff.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

7th generation native of Tennessee here. Where abouts you live ?

[@tennesseenative2043]

@@burtonwilliams5355 I was born in Columbia Tn. I've lived in Cheatham County around the Pleasant View area for the past thirty years.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

@@tennesseenative2043 I grew up outside of Franklin in Williamson. Have moved around to Crossville, back to Williamson County, to Nashville (groan), and now final home in rural N.W. White County. Glad to have met you. Thank you.

[@tinuviel-undomiel]

I’ll never forget when my sister brought her yankee boyfriend (now husband) to visit us down here for the first time. He gets out of the airport and goes “Whoa! The air is like soup!”

[@MonicaLN]

My boyfriend is from England and I thought he might not survive his first summer visit here to Texas! Sadly, our mosquitoes now have a taste for British blood and he becomes the center of a swarm every time he steps outside 🙈 He says winters here are lovely though; nothing is trying to kill him 😂

[@MonicaLN]

@Jessica B. People who have pools definitely use them and there are plenty of lakes in my area but mostly we stay inside with the air conditioning where the mosquitoes can't get to us! I used to spent part of every summer inn Galveston and having the ocean (and its breezes) made the heat so much more bearable. I can only imagine how much more spectacular Florida must be!

[@missyd0g2]

I was down south for a time. When you fish watch out for the old gator. Being from Michigan I was confused. My southern friend explained when you play golf you have a green fee. Here you have a gator fee. You bring something to give to the gator to eat. Then you can fish. Also watch out for snakes in trees over the water. The snakes will fall in the boat. We played golf during rattlesnake mating season. The 9th green was full of mating snakes. My southern friend explained never interrupt the male snakes while mating. They only get the chance once a year. Now that I have been married for over three decades. I fully understand why the male snakes would get pissed off.

[@lisarenee3505]

I'm in Oklahoma (I know, it's "the West, not The South) and that tornado siren reaction is spot on! *Hears siren* "Huh, we should check the weather. Is it tracking right for us? No? Okay then... this better not make the damn satellite TV go out again!"

[@willcresson8776]

I dunno, I think given the Ozarks y'all qualify as Southern, at least in the same general way as Texas. A lot of Southerners ended up there during and after the Civil War.

[@amorky8391]

Nah, they did a video on this and Oklahoma passed the south vibe check so we're in! We're lucky our radar is so good, we can track the tornadoes around town and just go about our business lol

[@jameswallace2049]

I think Oklahoma would qualify it is no further North than Tennessee or North Carolina.

[@coolkumquats]

As someone who has lived in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Montana, I can attest that Oklahoma is definitely not "the west." It is kinda in a hybrid zone between the south, the west, and the midwest -- both culturally and geographically. The weather, food, and societal norms are all kind of a blend of those regions, and vary depending on where you are in the state.

[@wonderforadventseason8128]

OK Culture is more southern than western

[@kungfuhustling4832]

Thank you for browning the meringue on the banana puddin. Half of the time restaurants don't even put it on much less brown it.

[@be6715]

I thought it looked burnt.

[@kungfuhustling4832]

@@be6715 just on the tip

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

Meringue should be golden brown and on Lemon meringue pie.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

@@kathleenkirchoff9223 yum got me hungry

[@janellwilliamson9724]

Meringue is for coconut cream pie not banana pudding. No no no

[@dianeabbey9202]

Speaking of bad weather, we are under a tornado warning and have been all afternoon. One touched down in a nearby town around 3:00... also high winds, flooding, hail, etc in my community in East Texas. Thankfully, no one was injured. However, I love living in Texas and will live out my golden years here.

[@kimberlybabbitt3099]

Me too!!!!

[@lilliegibson7131]

When I lived in Mississippi, my sister came down in July/August. She's from Indiana, and she about died. She said our air was so thick that you didn't need a glass of water, just take a deep breath. I was born amd raised in the South, and I completely understand her statement. Humidity is real down here.

[@lilliegibson7131]

@Jessica B. well we have manners for one... you don't have to be rude.

[@Matthew-uc7he]

Don't forget all 4 seasons in the same week. It snowed here in Ky not too long ago and was 70+ the next day.

[@mcomeslast]

Because it’s warm, there are still nice people here and pockets of common sense. Very happy to be back. Need to work out banana pudding for keto.

[@meabob]

I grew up in the South and most of my family still lives there. Definitely nice people but I question the pockets of common sense. LOL just kidding it's like that up here in Michigan as well.

[@jackiequeen4481]

pockets of common sense, how apt.

[@melindawingate4397]

💕

[@MoogieB]

Kinda hard getting around the bananas, ketoperson! You can make sugar free vanilla pudding, not sure if anyone makes sugar free vanilla wafers but the nanners ya can’t get around!

[@mcomeslast]

@@MoogieB yeah a lot of folks just use banana extract. And sometimes I’ve seen recipe use a little bit if banana for a treat or garnish. The cookies would be the easiest part. There are plenty of keto cookie recipes. Getting the pudding flavor down (vanilla and a little banana and maybe rum) should work.

[@Nananator2009]

"oh, that's a tornado siren..." (continues eating banana puddin) 🤣🤣🤣

[@tubatimkenny1337]

Must be noon on a wednesday

[@brianmccarthy5557]

Like a native Californian and earthquakes.

[@zac3392]

You misspelled “nanner...”

[@Smokr]

Okay, I found this channel a few days ago, and I've been going through them at a rapid pace. This might be my favorite one so far! "It finds you."

[@GilbysGr8Day]

100% truth. I'm a southerner now living in the north. I can't tell you how much 'fact' is in this video. I miss my heritage 'home'!

[@ajcarr1965]

A guy I know calls his girlfriend Kudzu. Why? Because nobody likes her at first, but "she grows on you."

[@Kamina1558]

“Kudzu that sounds pretty. Where can I get that?” “You don’t. It finds you” - Kudzu Horror film 2022 ( someone make it)

[@thebeesknees2621]

Don’t forget four seasons in one day! 😂. In the fall and spring in NC you start off in layers and end up in tank top and shorts and flip flops. Blessed to be a southern girl❤️

[@nathanjplatt]

That's why I love living in middle of nowhere Kentucky, you get that touch of South, the local grocery store has that southern food, but you get actual seasons and nothing wants to kill you.

[@younglaster]

One of my professors told us how one year he was teaching up North and wanted grits. He couldn't find it in the grocery store until they showed him where it was on the "ethnic aisle". He was so confused by this since (almost) everyone eats grits down here.

[@nathanjplatt]

@@younglaster LOL! My family lives in Indiana....southern food at their stores if its there are indeed in weird spots

[@johnwood551]

You live down South because even strangers smile and wave at you .

[@dioad1739]

People use too.

[@graceamerican3558]

SO dang true. AND if we're trying to be mean .... at least we'll smile while we're doin' it.

[@BigOldScout]

I'm from the South and Live in South Germany. (Don't ask how the heck that happened.) I want nothing more than to go back to the South. We invented the definition to the term, "Neighbourly." I miss standing in a long line at a store and perfect strangers will just start talking to you. That will NOT happen in Germany. Af first, I thought it was my bad German, but I noticed, a German will see another German coming and look through them as if nothing was there. It's especially bad in the area of Germany sometimes called "Swabia" or "Schwabenland." Yes, I want to go back to the south, where we don't meet strangers.

[@bettyc.parker-young1437]

Nanner Puddin in Granny's dish!!!!!! Could not be more Southern!!!😉💕

[@proehm]

Fried Chicken from her cast iron skillet. "You want fried chicken?" "Yeah grandma!" "Well then, bring me...that one."

[@bettyc.parker-young1437]

@@proehm That is a real contender!!!!!!😁

[@sonjaneuschwanger6419]

Even better it's a casserole dish from the Pioneer Woman cooking line at Wal-Mart. Can't get any more Southern.

[@rosemorris7912]

I put up with unending heat, choking humidity, tornadoes, torrential rain, mosquitoes, fire ants, alligators, snakes, skunks, and a host of other critters just so I don't have to put up with all things winter.

[@somenomad5332]

Ya can always add clothes you can't take enough off in the heat! That's why i brave winter lol!

[@georgiobenelli4854]

Take your choice, RAIN or SNOW,, I CHOOSE RAIN, even the 48 inches during hurricane Florence.

[@kitoyobeni1]

I live in Western NY and we only really had a handful of snow days where shoveling was an issue this year. I'd still like to avoid it, but when your family, job, and mortgage is here....so am I. I'll take snow over hurricanes, wildfires and tornados. I did enjoy the 6 months I lived in San Diego though...that is pretty much ideal if you can afford it.

[@fomoco300k]

I’ll take all that stuff over rude city folks! (Not that they’re all rude)

[@Nosferata138]

Thank you! I've been telling people this until I'm blue in the face, but I'm stuck up north, and nobody gets it, or uses the whole "i can put more layers on" deal...no, i should not have to change my wardrobe to leave the house, then change again when i come inside, I'd much rather sweat and get toxins out of my body and allow my body to actually move without miserable involuntary shivering, barely allowing me to think. It's horrible. give me the heat, snakes, thorns, etc...hell, I'll even deal with the killer bees. All better than snow. Rather risk a moment of chance encounter with something dangerous than a guaranteed 6-8 months of freezing my life to a halt every single year.

[@orbs1062]

You know you're in the South when you drive by a picnic and see everyone sitting there with one arm over their heads. Gnats go to the highest point. Holding your arm over your head keeps 'em out of yer eyes. No lie.

[@gizzyguzzi]

Do they have 'OFF' in the South?

[@buckeye5689]

That food must be really good to endure all that

[@meabob]

@@buckeye5689 - it is that good.

[@be6715]

Same for deer and horse flies.

[@Virginiafox21]

@@gizzyguzzi it doesn’t work. What does work? Dryer sheets. That butane thermacell hunting thingy. Having your entire neighborhood treated by a spray truck and will probably give everyone cancer. Standard stuff.

[@k.p.1139]

🤣😂 This is me and my daughter's conversation. "Hey MOM, we are taking vacation the week of July X-X. Can you get us tickets to Disney, and Sea World?" Me- "Sure, don't forget to stop by and say hi, before you go back home" 🤣

[@olderthandirt7061]

Born in the South and got back just as soon as I could. I always thought Southern food is so good so that we'll get enough size on us that we won't blow away in a hurricane.

[@WWZenaDo]

Ah, HA HA HA! Let's be honest, no Southerner in his/her right mind would want to move up to Michigan or Wisconsin (or Montana, or Colorado), but the Northerners (and Westerners) couldn't imagine a year without autumn colors and snow!

[@MsElfMannequin]

What’s wrong with Colorado? (Denver in particular).

[@AlphaWolf096]

Autumn colors are pretty, and I for one like cooler weather. It’s why I like being in the NC mountains rather than the Piedmont.

[@WWZenaDo]

@@MsElfMannequin Denver is fairly dry, but it's definitely a northern climate. We've been occasionally hit with at least 2 feet of snow and sometimes more, and that's in addition to the REGULAR snowfall. Unfortunately this tends to start in January - March, so we almost always have ugly dry beige/brown Christmases in Denver.

[@MRR_Shadowolf]

LOL too funny and true. When bought first house here in AL tornado sirens were blaring and I was trying to take video/pictures to show wife who was out of state. Signed the paperwork on the kitchen Island with sirens blaring lol

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Kudzu isn't just a South issue, it has become a New York Tri-State issue as well. You can find kudzu in NJ and all the boroughs of NYC. Driving on the Bronx River and Saw Mill River Parkways, I've seen plenty of it up here. It's the vine that ate the South, and is eating the North

[@totallycrazystudios1801]

How else is it supposed to take over the world if it doesn't invade

[@nanoflower1]

@@totallycrazystudios1801 I don't think it's likely to take over the West. At least not till it gets to the coast or the North West. Too dry for kudzu to really flourish while the conditions in the South were just perfect for it with the warm weather and plenty of rain. I noticed one day that the avg yearly rainfall for my county in Georgia is higher than in much of Hawaii. Think about that for a moment.

[@suzieq9009]

That's not good for y'all it's took over the south as you already know

[@totallycrazystudios1801]

@@nanoflower1 Interesting facts 👍 but I was just making a joke

[@debradowling800]

No kidding, live in the area and never knew that that's what it was called.

[@emilylightsey6374]

Dang, I really wanted Matt to say "It's okay, James Spann said we are not in the polygon."

[@katethebuss]

Yes! 😂

[@williammoore2665]

All REAL southerners know that it's not a dire situation until Spann takes off the jacket. If he's pointing to the weather map in shirt sleeves, it's time to head to the basement. I'm a native Tennesseean, I've never lived in Bama and even I know this.

[@bethwhitaker8794]

I’ve lived in Utah for 20 years and when I go home and buy groceries, my mom says” I didn’t raise you to eat like that!” Or she’ll say I don’t know how y’all eat in Utah but it’s not like we eat here. Ahh I miss southern food!

[@AmyC28713]

Which is very ironic given the fact Robertson County TN was a Mormon Stronghold before they were exhiled to what is now called Utah.

[@chomama1628]

Southern food is the best!

[@howardadams7111]

100% accurate... even down to the banana pudding. If made right it causes a block on all things terrible. This is why every outside picnic in the summer needs it. Otherwise, you just complain of the heat.

[@heidiwalker7123]

Everything he said is so true. I visited my aunt and uncle down in Georgia in June and I almost died !

[@melissawittman]

Honey, just come back in August. You'll have your own personal sauna every time you leave the air conditioning! 🤣

[@meabob]

LOL June is just getting the oven preheated

[@KenFromchicago]

3 bedroom, 2 bath, kitchen, living, dining, driveway, car port & guest house, is a THIRD of the price of a 1 bedroom, 1 kitchen/dining, living, 1 bath apartment.

[@KenFromchicago]

@@CarolinaEmber Not everywhere has snow and doesn't need a full garage.

[@KenFromchicago]

@@CarolinaEmber To be fair, I can go outside on New Year's day in short sleeves, fairly quickly to dump garbage or to my car and turn up the heat. 👍🤣

[@kaelynmitchell2936]

I've lived in the South my whole life and I'm still not used to the Heat

[@pammurphy2258]

I lived in Florida for six and a half years. When my husband retired I couldn’t move north fast enough. Florida is a great place for a vacation. There weren’t just enough nice days to make up for the heat and humidity.

[@JonnyLuscious]

i always enjoy looking at heavy kudzu infestations like most do clouds, imagining what the shapes look like... with the added bonus that whatever you imagine the shape to be might actually be under there.

[@lacey92]

That's what my siblings and I used to do on road trips when we were children!!🤣🤣

[@lacey92]

@Jessica B. omg same!

[@emilyyarbrough1512]

Being a southern is not what we are, it’s who we are. And banana pudding is the balm of our souls. Y’all have a good day.

[@nunyabidniz2868]

If I eat a banana every 6 months, I'm good. But fried plantains? Yum! If banana pudding tastes like fried plantains, I'll have 2nds...

[@chrispeek8412]

Southern winters are not as cold, for the most part. (I don't want to talk about last winter)

[@robjohnson8522]

I live in Del Rio Texas- Check the map - its the DESERT! it had not snowed here in 30 years and that was just a dusting. It snowed here twice in one week this winter - Sunday night into Monday 4-5 inches. The next Friday we got a FOOT of snow. A freaking FOOT of snow. God is mocking my retirement plans!

[@robjohnson8522]

Oh yeah, the one thing that is working per plan is the huimidity. We don't have any. it is AWESOME!

[@DarkRaen666]

Meh, you can always put on more layers, and start a fire in a northern winter. You can't however take off your skin and start an Ice in a southern summer.

[@meabob]

@@DarkRaen666 - that's what I say when asked why I moved to Michigan.

[@MstangMch4]

@@DarkRaen666 sum of us have tried!! As a teen, I took a kiddie pool, filled it with water, & took 2 five gallon buckets of water I had put in the chest freezer the week before to turn into huge ice cubes!!! Felt Great!! Only water wasn't deep enough!

[@quinnb-g1576]

love how she is so engrossed in the pudding she doesn't even care about the tornado siren so true lol.

[@evef9034]

ALL TRUE!!! This is one of your best videos! Sooooo funny! I needed a good laugh today. Thanks!!❤😁

[@Gracescozycorner]

If the banana puddin' don't convince you, the biscuits and gravy will!

[@philipchapman250]

Amen

[@farklefuster6876]

Don’t forget the barbecue 🍖!!

[@samiam619]

Nope. Biscuits deserve strawberry jam or grape jelly or honey...gravy goes on mashed taters!

[@farklefuster6876]

@@samiam619 As an individual that has attained an advanced degree in Southern Nutrition (PPH and SOD....plate piled high and seconds on desert) from the Baptist School of Potluck I have determined that you are referring to separate but distinct food groups. Biscuits can be served at any one of the five meals that southerners prepare daily.( breakfast, mid morning, dinner, mid afternoon, and supper) I have observed them being served not only with gravy, but the other food groups mentioned in your post. The food group of gravy, I have observed, can be served with the food group of mashed potatoes, but is rather tasty served with rice, fried steak, biscuits, scrambled eggs, or any other high cholesterol food of the diners choice. Thoroughly cooked poke stalks must be boiled before battering and deep frying.

[@samiam619]

@@farklefuster6876 While your reply was thoughtful and comprehensive. Are you serious about scrambled eggs and gravy? Maybe you can explain another Southern Mystery: Chicken and Waffles!

[@leesmith5419]

That’s one of the best videos about the south I think I’ve ever seen in your right it’s all true y’all

[@Briansgate]

the kudzu is real. Edit: This whole video is real.

[@michaelclemons1761]

True Southern cooking will help you overlook a lot of ills 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@faithstroud6546]

That is actually so incredibly true like I live in GA so I actually understand what’s behind all y’all’s videos

[@johnvance882]

The tornado sirens went of 15 times the other day and the closest tornado was 15 miles away! I was trying to see it but the trees are just too tall

[@benjie128]

We had one about a month ago. Sirens going off. Rain pouring. Heavy winds. Then silence. We took shelter.

[@nanoflower1]

@@benjie128 We had one here a few weeks back but we have no sirens. Didn't even know about it till the next morning.

[@JoeKlenk]

It's cool that people love where they live, no matter where that is. I'd never want to live in alaska or many other states, but some people just love where there from. So cool.

[@minigol91]

I agree that’s awesome!

[@machinist7230]

I thought about moving South, but then I realized the ice fishing is terrible!🤣👍

[@kayrohde]

In 1982, myself and 3 other nurses from Arkansas took a long weekend to visit the World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. The most popular exhibit was the Chinese exhibit with the terra cotta soldiers. The line was a mile long! We were about to give up hope on seeing this exhibit, when a huge storm blew up and it began to thunder and hail. EVERYBODY ran for cover- that is, everybody but us! After all, it was only pea sized hail and the winds never topped 40 mph! We found ourselves in a drastically reduced line and got to see the Chinese exhibit!

[@cogsandglimmers]

I'm from Southeast Missouri, so much more southern than St. Louis, but pretty low key. This.... This video definitely hit home. Especially with tornado sirens just being something less of "Oh no, a tornado!" And more of ".... Huh. Anyways"

[@suzygarrison2110]

Florida doesn't have sirens, and I miss them. It seems like they were early or at least before the TV report. Southerners will find a way to watch the storm. I found my husband on the roof once. The weatherman would get on an overpass to get a shot of the tornado coming down the freeway. I lived in Arkansas. The people weren't nuts, but they did like watching them.

[@murdockmom5]

😂

[@Zer0mas]

Its always fun watching someone from the south, or really anywhere sunny, experience the dark oppressive grey of the Pacific Northwest for the first time as it sucks all the happiness out of them.

[@wildcatlady74]

I was raised in KY, but live in NEFL, so don’t forget the nettles, lovebug season (both of em), our daily afternoon summer showers, ain’t NOTHING better than livin in the south!

[@soylentgreen2065]

Was i sneezing and missed the allergies reference? BRUTAL. I picked up a friend at the airport and ten minutes into the drive to my house he was sneezing and miserable (really, that fast). I kept him in meds for the rest of the weekend. Southeast is the worst place on the planet for allergies. Another time he came down (from the N.E.) we had tornadoes and he got to experience the sirens and huddling in the basement.

[@Happybidr]

To be a true Southerner, you need to start talking about food while you are AT WORK, about an hour after you arrive. You talk about what you had the night before, then your friend talks about how her mama cooked it, and how she still uses her Nana’s recipe, you both share your personal tips on how to cook it, etc., etc. Then after lunch you talk about what you’re gonna have that night, how you’re gonna cook it, hour your grandma cooked it, etc., etc.

[@saifai]

I've had this conversation with my sister when she was trying to talk me into moving down south. Ended up moving anyway. First question I always get is, "Why on earth did y'all move here of all places?!" 😂

[@johnbutler5650]

Yeah, that’s what I always ask people when I find out that they’ve moved to Mississippi voluntarily “ WHAT?!? Didn’t you see the brochure? And you still moved here? “ Apparently all of the transplants are crazy. Y’all’ll fit right in. ( and yes, that is a double contraction. It only works down here, in the magical south where English is still a second language! )

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

@@johnbutler5650 I live by Natchez Mississippi and when people would move in this area I would be like why did they move to the Miss-Lou it's nothing here

[@creative_thimble560]

@@johnbutler5650 Y’all’d’ve had- you all would have had. It really only makes sense in conversation.

[@johnbutler5650]

@@creative_thimble560 Well played creative thimble!! That is a gem!lol!

[@johnbutler5650]

@@Jamessmith-xk3fh Hells Bells ! I am from Natchez originally! ( I live in central Mississippi now ). The Natchez of my youth was a much wilder place to be sure!

[@amywyckhouse]

We didn't have a siren where I grew up. You didn't take cover until it got dark and/or turned green.

[@scotthenning2890]

So true about the moving in the summer. The heat and humidity will kill you LOL. 😂. When I lived in Atlanta it would start to cool down somewhat the end of October early November. Love your videos as always 😀👍🏻

[@reynoldscs]

Here from the PNW rain forest, I understand your humidity but not the temps that come with the south. I personally can not deal with it over 85 without A/C and the bug eat me alive! I applaud your ability to enjoy / endure that. " Golf Clap" I enjoy your videos a lot! Thank you!

[@clairegostomski426]

The comment about the one good week in October, between hurricanes? So accurate 😂

[@ahmadpickett]

0:24 When she said mid-July I knew at that point she is trying to die

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

Some how all our moving has been June and July ugh. Yes literally had heat exhaustion with one.

[@graceamerican3558]

There's a good day in October. lol August? Now she's REALLY trying to die. NO ONE moves in August.

[@badisonmoyd]

just saw someone from Vermont say they could make banana puddin’ up there too. HA good one, yankie

[@devernepersonal3636]

don't you just have to understand the ingredients?

[@jeanbean1390]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 not a chance🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@badisonmoyd]

@@devernepersonal3636 no u gotta be in the south

[@tracyMcC]

🤣🤣🤣😂

[@michaelgallagher3640]

2 funny things 1- You're so proud of your trailer trash culinary skills 2- Y'ALL can't get over getting your Asses whooped some 150 years ago....

[@ralphsattler8014]

The funniest part for me was them eating banana pudding while a tornado siren is going off and they just go back to eating as if it's just a ordinary weather phenomenon. 😂

[@alonespirit9923]

Whaddaya mean "as if it is" ... It Is! ;D

[@conniecrawford5231]

I have green tomatoes already on my plants and 50 square feet of different types of lettuce- here in NC! We have Southern magnolias and lots of blossoming trees in February- that’s why we live in the South!

[@kmillersc]

“Just imagine a humidifier test facility... but in hell.” Amen, brother

[@STho205]

I live on a mountain ridge in the Blue Ridge area, in a national forest. Summer is 80 to 85F and cools down to 65 most nights. Winter is 35ish, with some nights and a few days in the teens or 20s. Snows usually five different days a year, typically 1 to 8 inches. Hurricanes unlikely. Tornado hits are rare. Kudzu won't grow that high. And we have banana pudding.

[@11Renee11]

This sounds amazing. It was 109 with the heat index and 54% humidity, where I live, today.

[@meghoughton562]

But you forgot to mention the ABSOLUTE *magic* of fireflies, AKA lightening bugs.

[@BottomDollarOutdoors]

"You don't. It finds you." This is true. Even against ravenous goats, flame throwers, and round-up cannons; it comes for you.

[@ashgreen3574]

I've been listening to "this is not a test" tornado sirens go off my whole life in Tennessee and nothings hit my town yet. Probably gone of for an actual warning well over 100 times. Then last Thursday no storm warnings out and I get home and trees and powerlines are down. 🤷‍♀️

[@beautifulnoise5148]

THIS IS THE BEST ONE YET!!!! MY GRAMS AND GRANDPOP, MY MOTHER AND HER SIBLINGS MOVED TO CHICAGO RIIGGGHHHHTTTT B4 I WAS DUE TO SHOUT "HELLO WORLD" SO I WAS'NT BLESSSED TO INHALE ALL THE GOOD STUFF OF MY ELDERS BUT IM COMING BACK SOUTH AS SOON AS MY LEASE HERE IN CHICAHO IS UP...NOT TO LONG TO GO NOW.....THANK YOU LORD!!!

[@christopherabbott3484]

The kudzu comment is what got me giggling. "It finds you".

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

So does the Wisteria but at least it's pretty😊🐝❤

[@Tuvok_Shakur]

the tornado siren part is 100 percent realistic lol, i cant tell you how many tornado sirens i have disregarded

[@nottelling6598]

It took me till my late 20s to realize that the reason so many other people are afraid of thunder is that most places not in the South don't have thunderstorms be the most common source of rain.

[@alonespirit9923]

Hadn't consciously thought of that till you mentioned it, but yeah, that is a point!

[@megatexification]

You should be ashamed of yourselves! I’ve been watching for two hours and I have things to do! Love these.

[@elipotts6676]

I’m driving on the interstate and I see this sign that says you think texting and driving is ok bless your heart