While our friends and family in Baltimore and Washington were pummled with 48 inches of snow last week, the Great Winter Storm of 2010 slammed Charleston, SC with 1.5 inches on Friday into Saturday. As the storm moved down from the mid-atlantic region, the talk around town all week was "they say it might snow Friday." When "they" say it might snow, that's news down here. Friday came and the air was abuzz. Schools closed early, supermarkets were running low, Cody and I both got out of work at 3:00 to beat the storm, winter storm warnings flashed across the TV. Then, we all waited. About 10:00 p.m. snow started falling-- what we might have considered a "light dusting" in South Bend or Detroit, produced blizzard-like hysteria and dozens of snowmen in Charleston. We woke up on Saturday to a little winter-wonderland. I am having some fun with the blizzard hysteria here, but when you consider the last time it snowed in Charleston was 10 years ago, and before that, you have to go back another 10 years to find snow, this was truly the storm of the decade! Here is what we were able to document:
Our cute house covered in snow. Tracks are from Cody and Sean playing in the snow early in the morning while I slept in :).
Not often do you see a Palmetto laden with snow.
Cody and I took Sean on a walk Saturday morning so he could see the snow ("Doh! Doh!"). Great parents that we are, we have yet to buy Sean a pair of mittens (why would you need them in Charleston? it was 60 degrees last week!). So, our solution is hand socks. Unfortunately, this is now the third or fourth time we've used that solution (he has even learned how to grasp his Bop without thumbs) so maybe we should look into some real mittens.
Sean's very own snowball. He carried it the entire walk, which did not bode well for the hand socks, which were soaked and cold by the time we headed home.
He LOVED finding the snowmen in yards in the neighborhood. Everytime we passed one Sean would ask for more. We tried to explain that like dogs and trucks, snowmen are novelties you have to keep your eye out for and you can't just demand more.
I'm glad we survived the Great White of 2010. Our pantry shelves were getting bare and I heard some people in South Carolina lost power. We were nervous for a while there, but we dug ourselves out and we made it!
2 comments:
Erin and Cody and Sean and Baby brother:
I like the new website!....welcoming the new fellow on the internet...how 21st century. And the Scrabble activity at 19 months is a harbinger of a serious player in a few years.
Great pictures of the Chas-town blizzard!
Historical note: Sean Brendan's great great grandfather Pete (William Raymond Galloway)spent many a cold winter day without gloves....and like you, he used socks to keep his hands warm. In fact, he referred to mittens and gloves as hand-socks all the years I spent with him!!
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I love that he wanted to hold on to the snowball despite the discomfort. Why are babies so awesome, so good at enjoying life?
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