TodayFlowers will be delivered on Valentine's Day -- just like the mail
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Article Rating"I don't know what nature has against Valentine's Day," says Nancy George of George's Flowers in Carlisle.
"We haven't had a snow yet" this winter and "it's on Valentine's Day," she said earlier this afternoon as snow continued to fall.
"It's just a 2- to 4-inch snow, but it does slow it down considerably," George said. "This is nothing compared to some of them we've survived."
Still, she added, "It just makes one question. It's always a busy enough day without complicating it with snow, but we try to keep smiling."
Floral deliveries will continue despite the weather, she said.
"We're like the mailman," George said. "We have to keep delivering as best we can."
George's stopped taking additional orders today.
The floral shop took some calls changing the place of delivery from a school or business to a home, she added.
The storm makes delivery "a bit of a nightmare," said Jeffrey Winand, owner of Jeffrey's Flowers on East Louther Street.
"We started notifying customers that had requested Wednesday delivery and urged them to allow us to move the deliveries to (today)," Winand said. That way, "if we got the mother of all storms, we would be able to deliver" flowers in time.
Jeffrey's had eight trucks on the road today that delivered flowers as quickly as possible to try and stay ahead of the storm. Eight trucks are expected to be on the road Wednesday finishing deliveries.
Lisa Smith of Lisa's Floral Shoppe in Newville says some deliveries will have to go early and "some of them may have to go late."
With both her husband and father-in-law making deliveries, "we're getting them out as best we can," Smith said.
Flowers that were to be delivered to employees at Big Spring schools made it to the proper schools before an early dismissal today sent staff and students home early.
A few flowers were delivered Monday. "Some even wanted them Saturday," Smith said.
She's ready for customers to come in for those last minute orders.
