A Little Bit Of Snow In Bama

With the mention of snow in Alabama comes a wave of panic. Everything closes, everyone runs out to buy bread and milk (yes, just bread and milk) and the roads shut down. Now I know to my seasoned snow folks up north this sounds ridiculous......and I suppose it is.  However, this is indeed the way it goes.  Last week our weather guys started talking about the possibility of snow starting on Sunday. A decent amount of snow at that........4-6 inches.  Again, I know to some of you this seems like a "dusting"; however, this far south that is a pretty significant snow.  Besides, those of us who were living here in 1993 remember the prediction for snow fall that would accumulate around 6-8 inches and no one saw less than a foot (many folks had 18-20 inches)! Of course the forecast changed a billion times over the course of 4-5 days last week and we ended up with a forecast of 1-7 inches for Birmingham north and ice to the south.  Yes, I know what you're thinking.....probably the same thing that I was thinking on Sunday.  There is a very BIG difference between 1 inch and 7 inches (especially in terms of snow).  Well, we ended up with about an inch (maybe an inch and a half) but we did have some friends just north of us who were lucky enough to get 4-5 inches.



Emily and Aunt Toni

A little bit of snow in Alabama

Emily and Todd

Emily sitting in the snow!