It Snows in NOLA

As my 60+ year old sister squeals with the joy of a little girl. No, really. The message she left on my machine was hysterical.

Snow is a rare event in NOLA and with the forecast calling for more than a dusting (in some areas a few inches) I am certain that most folks will not be on the roads, but will enjoy the quiet and peace of the Winter snowfall. Or, maybe they're all out enjoying a snowball fight. Hey, I put nothing past my sister. I found this from the AP:

NEW ORLEANS - A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power.

Parts of Louisiana were expected to get up to four inches of snow. Snow also covered a broad swath of Mississippi, including the Jackson area, and closed schools in more than a dozen districts. The National Weather Service in Jackson said up to 8 inches was possible in the southern and eastern parts of the state.

A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning.

Office workers stepped out of high-rises to catch a snowflake, snap pictures with cell-phone cameras and swap snow stories.

At a park in New Orleans' Uptown neighborhood, Sara Echaniz, 41, snapped photos and dodged snowballs thrown by her son, 3-year-old Sam. "He didn't believe it was snow until it started sticking to the ground," said Ecahniz, a native of Rochester, N.Y., who was pregnant with the child the last time it snowed in New Orleans, in December 2004.

We have had over 2 inches of rain here in the last 36 hours and just the thought that if it had been snow instead, it would measure about 2 feet. I prefer the rain - unless I didn't have to drive anywhere.

Glad that old NOLA got a bit of white for the season.

And so it goes.

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