This is how it all started. Well, not quite with the picture above, but with a text from my folks at 5:09 A.M. stating, "It's snowing here." Then, at 5:20, I received another text with a link to pictures --- including the one above. At 5:36 came the following email, "We woke up at different times during the night to check the snow condition just like kids, finally at 4:30 we saw it. It's is beautiful! Wish you were here."
How adorable are they? I love how in most of the shots either my mom or poppa posed in the pictures. I wish I'd been there too; Jacques would have loved to run around in the snow. I'm certain of it.
But, back in New Orleans, there were flurries outside of my house....
Then my car when I arrived to work....
A couple of shots from my office windows.....
Shockingly, the first work email about the snow didn't arrive in my inbox until 8:11. My favorites included:
Northerner: it's snowing (subject line only)
Native of NOLA: Impossible. This is New Orleans.
Midwesterner: I know it's so cool! I wish it would close court.
Native of NOLA: We do shut down when this happens.
New Yorker #1: I nearly spit my morning tea out laughing when they announced SCHOOL CLOSINGS.
Native of NOLA: Is that snow? I knew we let too many yankees come here. Yawl done brought your weather.
New Yorker #2: One advantage to having an office where nobody is actually from New Orleans is that we Yankees are actually well equipped to deal with this.
Native of NOLA: New Yorker, Thank you. You can have my trial. But don't believe you will have anyone for the jury. Unless they are snow birds.
New Yorker #2: Always turn into the skid. When you shovel, get low and lift with your knees. You can take the boy out of Albany.....
Texan: This Southerner has been trying to drive for the last fifteen minutes. Any idea how to keep the snow from clogging up the back window? My defroster is on and I still can't see.
It certainly was a fun day to be a New Orleanian.
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