Let it Snow!

Snow is falling across the state and soon will be on our doorstep.  Meteorologist are predicting anywhere from 4 to 8 inches will fall today over a 12 hour period.  Our high today is going to be 28 degrees.  In anticipation of this "major winter storm" all the schools over the states have have closed taking a preemptive position.  Coworkers have taken rooms at the local hotel for Wednesday night due to the highly anticipated blizzard. 


It takes me back to a weekend I spent in Birmingham.  It was a Friday night and Ellis' weekend to have the kids.  The flurries began in Birmingham on our way to Tuscaloosa.  By the time we made that 45 miles, there was 3 good inches on the ground and it was coming down hard.  I had to make it back to Birmingham, then to Scottsboro; my doubts were mounting.  When I drove into Birmingham and headed North, the streets were bare, of cars that is.  It had come down so fast and heavy you couldn't tell where the road began or ended.  The Saturn turned into a snowplow.  I had to admit defeat and find a place for the night.  Easier said than done.  I finally found a mom and pop motel deep in the heart of Irondale, once a working class neighborhood, now a run down less desirable side of town.  Like most of Birmingham that weekend, they had no electricity, but they had a bed and water, so I was in. 


Maybe in the light of day, the roads would begin to clear and I could make it home.  BIG problem.  Twelve inches in all had fallen over night. Totally unpredicted.  I was stranded.  I had another BIG problem on my hands.  That weekend was meant for studying for I was to have finals the next week.  And I did not have a single book with me.  So I finally quit worrying myself to death, and I became friends with my "new neighbors" who were in similar predicaments.  We played cards, took long walks in the snow, and told stories of our lives.  What a weekend to remember.  Captured in a different place, totally outside of my life, all because of the snow.   I Love Snow !