NWA'S FIRST SNOW OF 06'

Winter 2005/2006 has been... well, anything but. According to KNWA News Northwest Arkansas (NWA) has had the warmest January on record. Dating back to the 1800's. Friday night, I worked at Red Rock City (see related blog), and did'nt get off work until 5am. Well, I hung out in Fort Smith for a while, then drove back to Fayetteville. As I came over the final mountain on I 540 N. at 7:45am Saturday, It started to snow. I love snow..so this woke me up and made me start feeling all giddy inside! But, having been awake for some 23 hours, I quickly got home and went to sleep thinking that this was just a passing pissed off cloud. When I got up Sat. Afternoon, I was shocked when I looked out the window and all rooftops, cars, grass, sidewalks and parking lots where completely covered with a blanket of fresh white! It was beutiful!.. well, the snow continued on and off all day, and all night.. snowing so hard at 7pm, that on my drive back to Fort Smith to work Sat night, I had to turn around and not risk going any further. So welcome Winter..we've been waiting for you!