a rare event

[mth44sc]

Last really measurable snow in these parts was 10 years ago or so.

[Mira]

1. I suspect the kids are loving it

I hope you'll post some pictures of the swamp (for lack of a better name)

PLEASE

or at least an alligator with snow on its head.

[mth44sc]

2. About twice that much snow out there now

I'll get up early and see what I can find before it all melts ...

[Mz Pip]

3. I hope the snow

doesn't melt before you get some shots of the swamp. Those would be really interesting to see.

Mz Pip

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Hmm...

Not your usual style. :)

So what do you think of snow? Do you like it?

[Mira]

5. Blue - you made me laugh out loud.

Was envisioning your Alaska self.......

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Well, I have to admit to a bit of amusement up here,

but still I understand that this is quite an event for the southern folk. The amounts that have fallen in DC are extreme even for Anchorage norms, so I can imagine it's pretty terrible without the resources to cope with it. We just take it all for granted. The Thompson Pass outside of Valdez, Alaska, averages about 600 inches of snow a season. That's 50 feet. Somehow our state road crews manage to keep that pass open most of the winter. I don't know how they do it.

[mth44sc]

7. I'm from Ohio

So it isn't exactly new to me. Here is a look taken two hours after the first

[Blue_In_AK]

8. That is really, really beautiful.

I'm from Ohio, too, originally. Are you old enough to remember the blizzard of 1950?

[mth44sc]

9. Nope born in 53

But I sure member the one in 1978