So, I am sure that many of you read Robert’s post last week about the beautiful weather last weekend. This weekend was quite a different story. Still beautiful but about 45 degrees colder. It finally snowed on Friday! It usually snows once a year in Memphis and I thought perhaps this year we wouldn’t get any at all. But, at the end of spring break when all of the students were enjoying their last days on the beach, we were enjoying an early spring snow.
I don’t have great pictures of the campus covered in snow because we left early and then I was pretty much snowed into my house (without power for about 4 hours!)…but below are some pictures of the beginning of the snow on campus. In the end, we got about 6 inches which is more snow than I’ve ever seen in Memphis in the 5+ years that I’ve lived here.
Memphis isn’t a city that is equipped to deal with very much snow so it’s actually pretty nice because everything shuts down. People don’t go anywhere and everyone just stays home. It was actually quite a nice change of pace. Being from Ohio, I am not used to this. There, nothing closes unless there is at least 12 inches of snow. This weekend my parents got 20 inches of snow! But, I would rather have 6 beautiful inches of snow that melt the next day than 20 inches that you have to shovel and then it all turns into slush. So, I guess I’m saying Memphis’ snow situation is pretty great.
Also, it’s pretty great that it’s going to be 60 degrees today. Now that I’ve had my one snow, bring on the spring.
–Caroline
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