Skywatch: Snow Day!

Snow is pretty rare in our part of North Carolina, and everyone gets excited when it comes!  We actually had a thundersnow, which is even rarer.  Thunder, lightning and snow all at once.  Strange, amazing, and oh so cool.  We ended up with close to 3" at our house, but this is North Carolina and it is fast melting.  The sun is out, the sky is blue.  After a week of gray skies and rain, this is such a nice change.

The best part?  In our neck o' the woods, everything shuts down when it snows.  The grocery store shelves are emptied of bread, milk and eggs (french toast, anyone?) and we prepare to hunker down.  Sounds silly, I know.  But that's just the way it is here "in the South".  Soooo, school was cancelled (SNOW DAY) and I spent the morning with the girls playing in the snow -- quick!  before it melts!

Last night, as the snow started falling

The snow was melting so quickly off of the top branches that it seemed to be raining.

And this little guy was hanging out in our front yard.

Project 365: Day 17, Snow!

Snow in our part of North Carolina is rare, and something that everyone gets excited about.  It has literally been raining for days and days (weeks?), dark, gray, sad...

For a few days now, they've been telling us the snow was coming.  Yesterday, they were pretty sure it was going to hit us.  This morning, we were looking at 1-3" (and it was still 47°).  At lunchtime we were looking at 2-4" (and the temperature had decreased about 5°).  By the time I picked up the girls from school, they were predicted 3-6" (and the temperature was still hovering around 40°).  Well, it's down to 34° and it's thundering and lightening... and SNOWING!  (Thundersnow!) 

  

It didn't start until after dark, and the snowflakes look like a million stars in a vast galaxy. 

And I've got two very happy girls.

And even better, they've already called school off for tomorrow.  

Yeah, we roll like that.  This is the south, after all.