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Dec. 11th, 2008 08:12 amOk, now I'm actually ticked off.
This is final exam week at LSU. I kept waiting for an announcement that the University was closed -- after all, all the other schools in a three parish radius have already closed. Instead, what I get is a text message saying that the University will remain open, and exams will continue as scheduled.
WTF?!?!?!!?!
It's *snowing*. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There is snow *on the ground* and *ON THE STREETS*. People in Louisiana don't know how to drive in the snow. People I know who have lived here for 40 years have *NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT*
[Oh, and a branch just feel off a tree onto my neighbour's car. At least it wasn't a very big branch -- doesn't look like it really damaged the car. Anyway, back to my rant.]
All the bridges across the Mississippi have been closed by state police due to ICY CONDITIONS. And yet the University is still holding exams. Guess if you live west of the river you're shit out of luck.
There will be deaths from this, mark my words.
This is final exam week at LSU. I kept waiting for an announcement that the University was closed -- after all, all the other schools in a three parish radius have already closed. Instead, what I get is a text message saying that the University will remain open, and exams will continue as scheduled.
WTF?!?!?!!?!
It's *snowing*. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There is snow *on the ground* and *ON THE STREETS*. People in Louisiana don't know how to drive in the snow. People I know who have lived here for 40 years have *NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT*
[Oh, and a branch just feel off a tree onto my neighbour's car. At least it wasn't a very big branch -- doesn't look like it really damaged the car. Anyway, back to my rant.]
All the bridges across the Mississippi have been closed by state police due to ICY CONDITIONS. And yet the University is still holding exams. Guess if you live west of the river you're shit out of luck.
There will be deaths from this, mark my words.
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Dec. 11th, 2008 07:41 am
This is the view out my balcony this morning.
I woke up when my alarm went off at 6:30 and for a second, I thought something had to be wrong because there were the voices of my neighbours outside my window and maybe it was really 6:30PM because what would all my neighbours be doing up at 6:30am?
After confirming it really was time to get up, I took a shower and headed out to the living room. That's when I saw the snow out the window. Threw on a pair of sweatpants and a flannel shirt and some boots and rushed outside. Sure 'nuff, there were all my neighbours gathered out watching the snow.
Snow. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana! I have it on authority from friends who've lived here all their life that it has only snowed twice in the last 35 years and neither time has it stuck to the ground.
We've got about 2-3 inches on the ground now, and it's still coming down.
I called in to work -- I might be able to drive in this, but I don't trust other Louisianans to do so -- and now I'm just watching it out the window. A part of me is freaking out about just what this says about our global climate situation, but most of me is too happy to see snow.
( More pictures under the cut )
I can has SNOW!!!!
Nov. 20th, 2007 11:19 amIt is snowing!!!! Y'all don't know what this means to me. I haven't seen snow in 5 years. I just spent the last 45 mins or so wandering around 'song's neighbourhood taking pictures of the snow on the trees, and in folks' gardens (hopefully nobody thought I was casing the joint). It is still coming down outside the window. My nose and fingers and ears are pleasantly numb. Snow snow snow snow snow snow SNOW!!
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