Ok, so you wouldn't think walking around in some snow would be all that interesting but me being me, I'm really exciting about small things! So, I'm in Atlanta and it doesn't normally snow here. The last time it snowed was in the 1860s or 70s, so REALLY it doesn't usually snow here. And since about 11 or so local time last night there's been a pretty steady fall of precipitation. When I woke up this morning around 9, there was a good four or five inches of snow on the ground. I've got a balcony from my bedroom window. On the railing there is still a good five inches of snow as I'm sitting here writing this.
Midday or so the type of precipitation changed. Apparently there is a difference between snow and frozen rain, who knew. Freezing rain used to be snow but has at some point melted and then been supercooled (has gotten below its freezing point but remained solid). When the drop lands on a surface that is below freezing it immediately freezes into ice.
So, what really excited me today was this walk I went on with my mom. We did the same walk I did last week. There was the four or five inches of snow plus the freezing rain on top of it. It was the coolest thing ever: you'd take a step and instead of sinking down into powdery snow, your foot crunches through half a centimeter or so of ice. I felt like I was Godzilla trampling through Tokyo with the amount of noise I was making. One step I took had a radiating fracture that went out about three feet; the ice actually cracked that far away from my foot!
It's really neat that this is the first time it's snowed here for over a hundred years and I get to be here.
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