To quote the cheesy holiday anthem, It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
According to the weather channel, we here in Vegas are under a severe winter weather warning until 6:00 tomorrow morning. It started dumping snow pretty heavily around 1:00 today, and it hasn't let up yet. Those of you from places that actually get snow, this may not sound like much, and it's not. But for lots of people here, especially my students, this is the first time they've even seen snow.
As a result, people are of course driving like morons, going at most 15 mph on the freeway, for example, when the roads aren't even frozen. It's a case of the overly-cautious causing dangerous conditions.
Add to that parents with overly dramatic attitudes to the tiniest of changes in the daily routine, and you've got what looks like our school's very first snow day. In Las Vegas.
Weird, I know. But also very pretty.
For a person who grew up in the mountains like I did, there's nothing like tons of heavy white snow coating everything to trigger memories of Christmas fun as a child. It really brings back vivid memories of building forts, hiding behind stop signs and then grabbing the bumpers of unsuspecting cars and letting them drag you over the icy streets, and playing the latest Atari 2600 games, like Pitfall or Adventure.
3 comments:
I don't see how someone like you, who grew up in the mountains, can stand a place like Vegas where it never snows and it unbearably hot.
Enjoy, though it's probably melted by now.
It actually hung on pretty well today. We probably got 5 inches in this neighborhood. Our block still has a good 3-4 inches, but as you get farther into town, it's pretty much all gone.
That just makes me nostalgic.
Minnesota girl wishes it would snow HERE!
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