Georgian Winter

It's kind of funny that this was the cover of the Sports Illustrated waiting for me in my mailbox today. Not ha ha funny- just funny because I left work early to drive home in the first snow I've seen in almost three years. I'm not one of those crazy people that freaks out when I have to drive in a little bit of snow, but my tires are bare and I don't trust the four million or so people in the city that DO freak out over snow. So I beat some of the traffic and got home incident free.

Well, before you knew it the little bit of snow was well over an inch of snow on our back deck. Still a little bit by Canadian standards but a lot in Georgia. I believe they said on the news that today was the first time since 1993 that all of Georgia got snowed on on the same day. It snowed for about five hours before switching over to freezing rain and now it's just cold. There's going to be a nice crunchy mess in the morning if it doesn't warm up. That bodes well for rush hour traffic. Tomorrow being a game day (Thrashers/Canadiens, 7 pm) I'd rather not be late getting to the office and then the rink.

Here's the evidence of the snowfall in case you're skeptical. That's the very early stage before it started accumulating. Our dog has played in snow before so she didn't mind it- she loves the cold anyway. The cat on the other hand is an indoor cat but he got to go outside for a few minutes and he couldn't figure out why stuff kept falling on his head.

We got enough snow for the people across the street to make a snowman and for me to lob a few snowballs. It was also enough for people coming home from work to stop at the top of our hill and think about whether or not they wanted to try to drive down the steep grade which is probably over 30 degrees. Steeper than the back side of the big hill in Canoe Cove if that means anything to you.

Anyway, I expect almost all of it will be gone an hour after the sun comes up, but that will probably be too late to prevent schools from closing. There's only a handful of sand trucks and plows in the whole city so it's not like they can do much to clear whatever's left on the roads.

So that was winter in Atlanta. Six more weeks and I should be able to plant the garden. As nice as the snowfall was I'm okay with going another three years until I see it again. By the way, they're already calling this the "Storm of '08".

Comments

[Melanie]

What a change from last year here. We had very little snow last year compared to normal. This year we are getting quite a bit.

BTW, love your fall photos. I absolutely love fall. The colors are always so striking. I too fall pics of my own, and also some winter shots that turned out beautiful. One thing about snow, is that it make even dead things look pretty or at least look cool. :)

--Melanie