On Thursday, Dec. 11 we had snow in New Orleans! Anyone from up north would be severely unimpressed, but for us it was a big deal. The snowfall lasted about an hour before it turned to sleet and then to rain. There was a good one or two inches accumulated on people's cars before it started to melt.
Aside from being so rare, it's a big deal around here because we just aren't prepared for it. People don't know how to drive on icy roads, and we don't have equipment to de-ice them. Our infrastructure isn't prepared to handle it, so limbs falling under the added weight took out some power lines.
If you drove about an hour and a half north of here (north of Lake Pontchartrain), my friends in Hammond got 8 inches on the ground! They were without power for almost 4 days.
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