SNOW!
I know this isn’t a big deal for most of you out there, but for those of us in South Louisiana, snow is a really big deal! It hasn’t snowed here since January 3, 2001. The above picture is our back yard.
The above picture is the front of our house. I know, the siding needs washing with bleach. It’s molded. The sun doesn’t shine there for most of the day because the house faces east and the sun revolves around the back side of the house.
This is our street. I’m really surprised snow stuck to the pavement. It usually doesn’t do that here.
This is a Hurricane Gustav debris pile covered with snow. I don’t envy those who have tarps over their roofs. The snow is wet and if the holes are big, the tarps probably fell through them if they weren’t secured. I’ll have to go out later and see how the damaged houses around ours are doing.
We woke up this morning to about 3 inches of the puffy, white stuff coating everything. It’s melting now. Snow never lasts long here. Unfortunately, it’s supposed to get really cold tonight so all that melting snow will turn into ice by morning.
Nobody knows how to drive on snow and ice down here, so that makes life exciting and dangerous.
It also means the libraries where I tutor are closed today and the coffee shops I use as back-up locations are also closing at 1 p.m. I had to move all my students that had appointments today to tomorrow and Saturday. It’s great to have snow, but mid-term exams are next week, and my students need their tutoring sessions on time as much as possible.
Since I was able to reschedule everyone, I won’t lose any hours of work. I also picked up one more private student for mid-term chemistry tutoring. That will likely yield me at least 2 extra hours of work at $25/hr. 
