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Snow on Christmas Day
We once attended a birthday party for the 8-year-old daughter of a friend.  Adrienne's
birthday was just a week before Christmas and when the cake came, she blew out her
candles and announced that her wish had been that there would be snow on Christmas
Day.  Her mom told her she was supposed to keep her wish a secret, but she just
shrugged and said, "Doesn't matter.  It never snows here anyway."

She was almost right.  It does snow in New Orleans, but only once in a very great while.
According to the National Weather Service, snow accumulating in measurable amounts
has occurred in the city less than 20 times since 1849.  The largest snowfall was in 1895,
when New Orleans saw an amazing 8 inches!

The snow wish didn't come true that Christmas.  But we live in hope and every winter, most
people in the region make the same wish Adrienne made:  "I hope it snows this year."

And to the snow-deprived, even without benefit of birthday candles, it's always
a heartfelt wish.

-- Nancy
White Christmas

The sun is shining, the grass is green
And the orange and palm trees sway,
There's never been such a day
In Beverly Hills, L.A.;
But it's December the twenty-fourth
And I am longing to be up North.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write,
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

-- Irving Berlin
New Orleans:  The great snowfall of 1895...I'm sorry I missed this one!
Merry Christmas