First Snow
Well believe it or not we woke up to snow and went to sleep to snow yesterday! I've been saying since this summer we were going to have a colder than what we're used to winter. I certainly didn't expect snow on December 1st!
I didn't really notice it as I drove the kids to school. Terry had called and said to be careful because there was ice on the roads so that's about all I paid attention to. When I pulled back in the driveway I noticed accumulated snow on the roof and thought to myself that that wasn't ice cause ice doesn't accumulate like that, it had to be snow... I remained somewhat baffled believing I was just ignorant in the ways of ice. But as I sat there listening to the song that was still playing I noticed flakes coming down here and there. I felt validated about the snow on the roof but didn't think not one lick of how long that had to be coming down like that in order to accumulate so much til later.
Around lunch time Terry calls and asks if it is snowing here because Hunter had called and said it was there at the school. I confirmed it was. Still not even enough to call a dusting but enough to see coming down regularly. As I went back to the school for a meeting it really started coming down in big flakes. At first I thought it was that optical illusion caused by going by fast in your car (not that I was going more than 35 mph mind you on those curvy icy roads)... but no, it remained the same when I was stopped at stop signs all the way there. Terry called to tell me that some schools in North Georgia had been closed due to snow.
The kids were thrilled to see it snowing but were less than thrilled that it had almost quit by the time we got out of the meeting. Only it never did quit. We went on to gymnastics, the library, ballet, back home, and to pick up Toree from chorus rehearsal with it coming down in varying degrees.
Later that night as everyone was getting into bed, Terry called on his way home from the gym with Hunter that a portion of Hwy 9 had been shut down in Dawsonville (just north of us) due to the ice.
Anyway, that's our little first snow of the year story! Not much to it but it's ours :-) ... Oh and I got up this morning to a little dusting on snow on the back deck. It's melted now but it was there!
I didn't really notice it as I drove the kids to school. Terry had called and said to be careful because there was ice on the roads so that's about all I paid attention to. When I pulled back in the driveway I noticed accumulated snow on the roof and thought to myself that that wasn't ice cause ice doesn't accumulate like that, it had to be snow... I remained somewhat baffled believing I was just ignorant in the ways of ice. But as I sat there listening to the song that was still playing I noticed flakes coming down here and there. I felt validated about the snow on the roof but didn't think not one lick of how long that had to be coming down like that in order to accumulate so much til later.
Around lunch time Terry calls and asks if it is snowing here because Hunter had called and said it was there at the school. I confirmed it was. Still not even enough to call a dusting but enough to see coming down regularly. As I went back to the school for a meeting it really started coming down in big flakes. At first I thought it was that optical illusion caused by going by fast in your car (not that I was going more than 35 mph mind you on those curvy icy roads)... but no, it remained the same when I was stopped at stop signs all the way there. Terry called to tell me that some schools in North Georgia had been closed due to snow.
The kids were thrilled to see it snowing but were less than thrilled that it had almost quit by the time we got out of the meeting. Only it never did quit. We went on to gymnastics, the library, ballet, back home, and to pick up Toree from chorus rehearsal with it coming down in varying degrees.
Later that night as everyone was getting into bed, Terry called on his way home from the gym with Hunter that a portion of Hwy 9 had been shut down in Dawsonville (just north of us) due to the ice.
Anyway, that's our little first snow of the year story! Not much to it but it's ours :-) ... Oh and I got up this morning to a little dusting on snow on the back deck. It's melted now but it was there!
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