Snow in Vegas?

On Wednesday December 17th, it started snowing about 1230 in the afternoon. It kept snowing and snowing and then it snowed some more. At midnight it was still snowing.

Las Vegas, which does get some snow from time to time is not prepared to get that much snow. Down on the south end of town where I live, we got about 8".  The roads were an absolute mess.  It took me a little over an hour to drive less than 7 miles down a straight stretch of road.  There were no accidents, the roads were just an icy, snowy mess. Combine that with people who have never driven in the snow. That equals a big damn mess.

I got home, Eric was already home and shoveling the driveway off.  We have a shovel that works for that?  I guess it IS Eric I'm taking about.  He really does have just about anything he could need.

I digress.

Turk (the dog) had a ball playing in the snow, biting at the big, wet snowflakes as they fell and chasing snowballs.  We built a snowman.  It was leaning a lot and fell over before the night was out, but then again, I haven't built a snowman in about 20 years. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday, there is still a bunch of snow left on the ground and the mountains surrounding the valley are still snow covered.  The snow never sticks around this long, but then again, the Vegas valley hasn't seen a snowstorn like thois since the early 1970's.