Snow in the Deep South!

This is the closest to a White Christmas that we have ever been in S. Louisiana. It's very unusual to get snow at all, much less have it fall heavily for over 3 hours and accumulate to nearly 3 inches deep in some places. To have snow that lasts all day and still covers part of the landscape all day is nothing short of a 100 year event. But that is just what we have had today. So much for global warming - HA!

I went to work at St. Amant High this morning because the School Board didn't cancel classes in time. Of course I only had 6 or 7 kids for the first two blocks and then they let everyone go home. It was impossible to get anything done; and even if I had tried, there were too many absent and all the work would have to be repeated anyway, so we just let the kids sit around, or play in the snow if no administrator was there to stop it. I couldn't blame the kids for wanting to be in the snow. I wouldn't have minded it too much myself. I did get a few pictures for posterity.

Pat went to Gulfport, MS shopping with her sister and it took them so long to get there that they could have gone to Dallas instead. But, like the postman, "neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night", shall keep a woman from hitting the stores around holiday time. I don't know what time they will be back; and it may not even be tonight.

I have to say it's been a most unusual day and one most of us won't forget for a long time. This is the first time, in my 60 years on this planet, that I almost saw a "white out" in Gonzales, LA.

Yee Ha, and Ho Ho Ho, Ya'll!