Snow! And then more snow!

The wind is insane outside right now.  The news claims that there are strong 20-30 mph winds with gusts between 45 and 50 mph.  It is so incredibly loud.  I figured this would mean a major weather change for tomorrow, but tomorrow's forecast is just more wind, and then snow on Wednesday.  I'm kind of excited for snow.

Which leads me to today's Holidailies prompt: Tell us a story about snow.

When I was a kid, I used to love going sledding, and I still miss it.  We used to have giant inner-tube style sleds that we would go flying down the hill on, frequently ramping over the cattails onto the (hopefully) frozen lake.  Typically, we then got in trouble for being out on the lake, but we figured we were safe.  We were on inner-tubes, of course.  We thought we were safe.  No one ever fell in the lake, anyway.

The most fun I've ever had in the snow was during my junior year of college.  It was December, 2001, and it was finals week.  Overnight, we got about 3 feet of snow.  It was amazing.  The city shut down, which meant finals were canceled and rescheduled (I didn't have any finals scheduled for that day).  The university went onto "emergency services," which meant no classes, but we still had open dining halls and we had power and heat.  Essentially, we had a whole day to play in the snow.  It was amazing.

We all bundled up and went outside and played football with Matt's football pillow on South Quad.  Tackling is so much fun when you've got a ton of snow under you and you're wearing eighty layers.  At one point, I just randomly tackled Abby, just for the fun of it.

It was a great day, a day to just be kids again, something I think we all needed given the gravity of what had happened just a few months earlier.  I wish I had pictures from that day, but even without, it was fun I don't think I'll ever forget.