Snow

In all my years living in Texas, we never had a true "Snow Day". Sure, we had days when school was canceled because of inclement weather. Times when a wet cold front would come in, and the temperature stayed below 32 degree, prompting the city to shut down because of the dangers of ice on the roads. On such days, we would even be able to make little 6 inch tall "snow" men, and look around in wonderment at the icicles on our cars.  And let me stress that we wouldn't driving at all, not even to the store because we didn't have snow tires and the roads never got salted.  All this for 30 degree weather.

New York is a different beast. Since I moved here a year ago, there have been many, many days when the temperature did not rise above the freezing point. In fact, I remember a solid week recently were the temperature never rose above the mid 20's. Seriously.  Unacceptable.

And yet, through this whole freezing wonderland (with snow on Christmas, imagine that!), there was never a Snow Day. It was never deemed miserable or dangerous enough to shut the school system down. Which really made me wonder, what would it take to declare inclement weather?

Apparently a whole lot of snow. About 8 - 10 inches, to be precise. It snowed all of last night and this morning. And it covered everything. Though I must say that I was a bit disappointed in the whole snow "storm" denomination. In Texas, rain storms are full of thunder and lighting, and rather theatrical. This snow storm was kinda lame. It just snowed. Continuously. For many hours. In a gentle lovely way. No wind. No thunder. Just snow.

And THAT is apparently how you get a snow day.