Let it Snow!

Conditions were just right in late November to bring a very brief snow "storm" to the northern Willamette Valley in Oregon. It started about nine o'clock in the morning. A friend of mine sent me an instant message telling me that it was snowing. Assuming that my friend was simply trying to tear me away from The Sims again, I ignored him. Then he told me to look out the window. Sure enough, it was snowing!... or at least there was some approximation of snow falling from the sky.

My first instinct was to take pictures of this rarely-seen phenomenon but then I started to worry about THE CHILDREN! Whatever would the youngsters -- who were, by this time, stuffed safely into their over-crowded public school rooms -- going to do when finally they had to come home in... <gasp>... the SNOW? I checked several local news web sites and found most of them to be snowed under. One web site proclaimed, "It's Snowing! It's Snowing!" Thank goodness we can depend upon the local news media to keep us informed.

It was only then, after I had been properly notified of conditions by trained journalists, that I thought to hunt out the digital camera to collect evidence of this wild occurrence. Without pictures, no one would believe me.

Later that afternoon the air warmed, it began to rain and the snow melted away. Nothing at all happened to anyone. No schools closed, no governments collapsed and no genetically-altered crops died. At least I can say "I was there when it snowed."