Winter storm lets southern states enjoy a rare snow day
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When life gives you a snow day, make a snowman. Across the southern U.S., millions of residents woke up Friday to a rare chance to bust out the mittens and snow pants thanks to a cold snap that dumped snow in their backyards. While the chilly conditions sparked warnings from state officials about treacherous icy roads and forced mass school cancellations, many stuck at home were determined to make the most of the heavy snowfall.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Tyshae Sanders and her boyfriend Terrell Bryant decided to build an igloo in the front yard of their home. The two were using a plastic bin to build snow blocks needed to create the structure. Sanders said she hoped to be able to build one 5 feet tall by the end of Friday.
“Why couldn’t this happen when we was kids?” Bryant, 34, said with a laugh. “It could be more,” Sanders, 30, said. “I’m still wishing for a blizzard.”. In a hilly southeast Atlanta neighborhood, where three or four inches (about 7.6 to 10 centimeters) of snow fell in the early morning hours, kids and some adults grabbed sleds and anything else that might slide. Like many in the South, streets remained unplowed and the few drivers who braved the snowy conditions crept along at cautious speeds.
“My first thought was, ‘Wow!’” Mikayla Johnson, 12, said of awakening to a blanket of white. “We haven’t had snow since I was, like, 4 – good snow, at least. So I was really happy.”. “I thought, ‘I can’t believe all the hype was true,’” her dad, Nate Johnson, said after predictions over the last few days varied and forecasts in recent years have promised snow that never materialized.
