Southern Snow

fWednesday afternoon schools in our area were canceled while the sun shone in a beautiful blue sky. I thought this was a bit of an overreaction.... but this is what it looked like at 7:30am on Thursday.

It doesn't look like much but it made the roads quite slick. Unfortunately because this mess happens so infrequently our cities don't own a sufficient number of plows and sandtrucks.
My kids were not going to let a lack of snow prevent them from sledding. This was their ingenious idea. And yes my silly son is wearing crocs in snow, ice and freezing temps; he later changed to boots.

This is what northern Alabama looks like after 24 hours of bad weather. To northerners it looks like nothing but the roads are slick and there are no sand trucks to spread on anything but major roads. The temps are so low (14*) that nothing is melting. I have no idea how Madeleine is going to get back to college. Her regular route involves lots of country roads and hills; hopefully the highway overpasses will be cleared of ice and she can go that way instead on Saturday or Sunday.