WTF??? Snow in N'Awlins!!

[Gatorubet]

Sleet, snow tail off in New Orleans

by The Times-Picayune Thursday December 11, 2008, 12:00 PM

John McCusker / The Times-Picayune
Canal street is monochromatic as snow falls Thursday morning.

For the first time in nearly four years, snow fell across the New Orleans region
this morning, with flurries reported on the north shore and in the city, Metairie,
Kenner, LaPlace and other parts of the south shore.

Eliot Kamenitz/The Times-Picayune

Snow in New Orleans is a rarity. The last time it snowed was Christmas 2004;
before that, the last snow recorded was in 1989, according to Jim Vasilj, a
forecaster with the National Weather Service. Since 1850, snow had fallen
in "measurable amounts" rather than traces in the city just 17 times,
Vasilj said. Of the 17, today's snowfall was the earliest in the season recorded.

 

[BUCKYLE]

That's cute and all...but it's not really "snow".

:p

I wish it were snowing here right now.

 

[BigWoof31]

Chocolate City my ass

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

Chocolate City my ass

 

[Taosman]

Snowed in El Paso/Juarez Tuesday! :tongue2:

 

[martinss01]

i blame al gore.

 

[BigWoof31]

touche'

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

did the people all freak out and put chains on their tires? i love reading stories like that about people in warm weather states who have no idea how to react to snow.

 

[BUCKYLE]

did the people all freak out and put chains on their tires? i love reading stories like that about people in warm weather states who have no idea how to react to snow.

Like when I lived in GA, and people are freaking out at the front of the Wal-Mart. "IT'S FUCKING SNOWING OUT!!!1!"

I'm homesick, and I'm getting all excited, so I run outside...

I'm not sure I'd even call it freezing rain...more like frozen spittle.

Fucking southerners.

 

[buckeyegrad]

did the people all freak out and put chains on their tires? i love reading stories like that about people in warm weather states who have no idea how to react to snow.

Hmmmm....I just assumed they would dodge all the falling snowflakes using southern speed.

 

[BigWoof31]

did the people all freak out and put chains on their tires? i love reading stories like that about people in warm weather states who have no idea how to react to snow.

One of the major reasons this happens is because there are "0" trucks to handle any type of accumulation here.
While it's true that snow rarely builds up - if it does, we have no plows or salt trucks to deal with it.

 

[BUCKYLE]

One of the major reasons this happens is because there are "0" trucks to handle any type of accumulation here.
While it's true that snow rarely builds up - if it does, we have no plows or salt trucks to deal with it.

So wait a half hour til it melts.

 

[OCBucksFan]

It's only fair, I mean Louisiana has gotten so much good weather over the past 10 years some bad weather was bound to happen.

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

Snow still on the ground this AM but will be gone soon. No trucks and the fact the dumb asses can't drive in warm, dry weather complicates things.

 

[martinss01]

One of the major reasons this happens is because there are "0" trucks to handle any type of accumulation here.

funny, there are parts of ohio that can say the same thing...