P365 Day 218: It's snowing. Who made a deal with the devil?
Yesterday was a "hell has frozen over" kind of day, and here's some proof: SNOW! Now, before you laugh at our 1-2" of accumulation, remember we live on the coast. Paul and I are about ten minutes from the Atlantic. And Tweeters are saying it's snowing on Isle of Palms — the beach. It's snowing on the beach.
One of the local news stations is hashtagging this as #snomg. I guess for this area, it really is. Paul snapped this pic of the snow falling on the parking lot of our apartment. It's coming down pretty hard!
And a couple of shots of the accumulation —
The trees on the back side of our building (very close to the view from our screened-in porch):
The overhang of our building:
Accumulation on the ledge between our floor and the one above us:
I didn't stick my finger in it, but I think it's about an inch and a half. Don't laugh at me, people who have had eight-foot snow drifts. This is strange, very strange, for Chas.
I sent this text message to my dad today: "It's going to snow! We're expected to get a couple of inches on the coast; inland forecasted at 6-8". People here REALLY don't know how to drive in snow/ice." He wrote back: "You can have it! I'm am very tired of it this year. Go get you some groceries, hunker down and enjoy it. Love, Dad."
I assume the "You can have it" sentiment is pretty widespread at this point?
posted by Kate at 1:53 AM
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We made a deal for this storm to keep south. We've had more than enough! It's amazing and scary when weather happens where it usually doesn't. One day when we were in Vegas it rained about an inch and there were HUNDREDS of wrecks. People had never driven on wet pavement before and the concept of longer stopping distance was totally foreign. I imagine a few inches of snow in Charleston would have a similar effect.
Well - I guess the devil went down to georgia finally and gome some soul food in him.
Final total was 2.2" on one side of my town and 2.3" on the other side, according to the National Weather Service. (One spotter said 3.8", but I think that's a overestimating a bit.)
Charleston proper got between 1.8" and 4".
We haven't had snow here yet, so hell has not officially frozen over...
...although some of the news people and some of my friends SWEAR they saw some real snow mixed with our Florida snow (aka rain) on Friday. I think they have lost their minds.
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