Snow!

The Web rules my life: Reason #419

While reading Onfocus this morning, I said to myself "Wow! It snowed in Sebastopol?"

Only after seeing PB's wonderful pictures did I bother to open my window blinds to see that, yes, it also snowed in Petaluma!

And it was honest to goodness real snow! Not that pathetic frost that we get so excited about once a year. This stuff was everywhere -- on cars, roofs, covering lawns. The most I've ever seen in low-elevation parts of California.

Since I've only really seen snow twice in my life, this was a real treat.

I'd hate to think that I would have missed this glorious morning because the first thing I look at each morning is my computer screen. How utterly clueless I am!

For some reason, somes kids aren't at school today. Because of this, there were tons of kids outside playing in the snow. Two sad girls were trying to sled on flat ground in a park. The snow had already begun melting and they just sort of sat on their sleds.

Regardless of their inability to sled, they seemed to be having the greatest time.

Ben and I had a wonderful time just walking around the neighborhood.

I took some pictures.

Comments

[Paul]

Very weird, since it was in the 60s here in Chicago all weekend. Maybe that phonezilla post somehow swapped weather systems on the west coast with those of the midwest?

[denise]

the kids might have been out of school because of the snow. snow day. unless you were being tongue in cheek. sometimes, i miss humor if it's written instead of spoken.

[Mena]

Yeah, Petaluma closed the schools for kids -- I think that's a bit ridiculous. It's nice that they could play in the snow and all but a light dusting doesn't seem to constitute a Snow Day. Maybe I'm just bitter because some teenage punks with nothing to do screwed with the neighborhood mail. :)

[Moss]

Alas, the snow didn't make it up to Healdsburg. I woke up to the weather report on the radio, and was terribly excited... until I got to the window.

Still... snow... right around here. Glorious. I hope there's more.

[Jennie]

We just got a dusting in Sacramento, but the kids went just nuts, chanting "snow day, snow day!" and such. They told me it hadn't snowed here since 1998 (when they shut everything down for about an inch).

At which point, of course, I felt compelled to drag out the Northern Michigan horror stories... "Back when I was your age, I had to walk to school - uphill both ways - through at least four feet of snow seven months of the year."

They just laughed.

[tina]

yeah, the snow was (is) beautiful. i'm in sonoma and came across your site for the first time today in connection with the 20things/20days project, and because you mentioned the snow in petaluma i got to find out that we're neighbors. so hello, neighbor!

[tina again]

by the way, i grew up in rural northern idaho and we never got snow days unless it was over the bus driver's head. lucky california kids!

[resonance]

I say shut down the schools, force everyone to stay home, etc. I think it was last year that we got an icing on HWY 17 and Santa Cruz was cut off from all-things-not-Santa Cruz. The only way to get out of the city was to head south on HWY 1 until you hit 101.

When snow arrives somewhere where it doesn't snow often, I say shut it all down. Warm weathered people can't drive in the snow--they hurt themselves and others.

And besides--it would be a snow day.

[Harmony]

Nice photos Mena! You live in a lovely area too :)

[meg]

just lovely photographs... it's lovely to get the chance to encapsulate perfect moments like that...

[Kevin]

Ya'll Californians are funny (I know, I'm one too now). Born and raised in the frozen North, snow is long past being an amusement. But it made me very happy to see how much joy it was bringing to my neighbors in this here part of the world.

[Rachel]

Heh heh, I usually brush that much snow and more off my car every morning... you crazy Californians, snow isn't supposed to be fun! Well, my mom's from Hawai'i and she feels the same way about the white stuff... I, on the other hand, having lived in Canada all my life, just don't get it...

[Jeff]

Well, it was almost 70 here in DC yesterday and will be a repeat today. And, wouldn't you know, I'm sitting here in bed with some nasty virus. Where's the justice?!!

Being a native Californian, this is my kind of winter!

[MishMish]

Ah, beautiful snow...something we don't get to see here in Houston...thanks for sharing the pictures!!

[Monica]

Mena -
Those pictures were great. When Joe spoke with his familiy they told us it had snowed but I never thought it was that much!/ The mountains in the back were so beautiful. I want to go back home!! - love you - Monica