We heard that there might be snow, so while feeding the kids breakfast I turned on the TV. Quickly, I rushed the kids to the set — LOOK, I said, it’s SNOWING not far from here! Will was the most excited, “when will the snow be here?”
“Oh, Will, we live in New Orleans. We don’t get snow here.”
I was wrong! Paul called home right between Will walking into his class and driving Kate to her building. Heavy, heavy snow. Kate asked for the phone and banged on her window, screaming “SNOW, MOMMY! SNOW!”
And it stuck. For a few hours, at least. Paul took these pictures around 10am.
Here’s our little house. Can you believe we still haven’t unstuck the shutter on the right? I’m so embarrassed.
I’m also a little bummed we hadn’t put up any Christmas decorations yet. Our house is ADORABLE dressed up for the holidays. (The orange caution tape in front is to protect the hardie, which Paul is working to carry to the back — it is so heavy and unwieldy that he builds a special gig to hold the long boards for the trip to the backyard and can only bring 50 or so back per session.)
Here’s our street:
Holly in the snow…
Hmm, the azaleas were looking a little leggy anyway.
Poor pansies. I have no idea if these are the winter variety.
Our little house.
Remember these? It’s one of the three skylights Paul installed in the renovated area in the roof he built. Check out that frozen snow on the glass — the sign of a darn good job insulating to keep the heat inside!
Around 11:30, we left to get our friend Carmen to take her to a nice lunch before she moves next week. On the way, we stopped to get a quick picture of a little snowman on top of the streetcar sculpture at Audubon Park. By the time we were done with lunch, everything had melted.
Here’s video of it coming down, taken by Paul this morning:
SNOW in New Orleans from Cold Spaghetti on Vimeo.
Now that the frozen variety are washed away, snow stories are flying around the city. Is it true that a snow in New Orleans signals a bad hurricane to come the following spring? Or is this just because the last snow, Christmas Day 2004, was the year before Katrina?  There are conflicting reports regarding the winter before Betsy. Anyone have insight into this?
gwen | 11-Dec-08 at 8:43 pm | Permalink
what fun! i do love snow and miss it…don’t you think that dc had the perfect mix of snow and the rest of the seasons? enjoy it all…
kitty | 11-Dec-08 at 11:15 pm | Permalink
Your house looks like what you’d see in a miniature Christmas village.
I’ve been down some streets near the French Quarter that look like this. Dream houses. When I think way into the future I see myself in a place like this, just writing with the windows down and breeze blowing the curtains.
Maybe one day.
magpie | 12-Dec-08 at 11:17 am | Permalink
Your house is adorable. So sweet.
admin | 12-Dec-08 at 11:42 am | Permalink
Gwen: you know, I miss the beauty of the snow, but that is about it. Four years of Michigan took away all the glamour! Yesterday’s snow was perfect: lasted a few hours, then back to 60 degrees today!
Kitty & Magpie: thank you for the house compliments! I’m blushing and very appreciative. We’ve done so, so much work to it and have so much more to go… you’ve always got a place to stay in the Big Easy!
gwen | 12-Dec-08 at 12:00 pm | Permalink
h: i think that’s the same reason mario won’t entertain my dream to live in vermont or madison, wi…buffalo ruined winter for him 🙂 and he’s very much in love with south carolina…esp. in january!
Clay Bowman | 12-Dec-08 at 11:33 pm | Permalink
Snow in New Orleans, I was there once for snow it was very cool. I lived there a couple of times, left the last time right before Katrina.
Oh, and hi, Found you on NaBloPoMo, on the collective feed thingie…
Cold Spaghetti » Blog Archive » Progress, maybe. | 16-Dec-08 at 9:48 pm | Permalink
[…] good news is that Paul only has 12 more hardie boards to move from the front to the back. (Remember that pile in the snow?) Six more trips and the neighbors will start talking to us again. But the improvements to the […]