DAY 6: LET IT SNOW!

Bundle Up!

It's all about SNOW! All week, it seems everyone’s been hoping for SNOW – even the adults!  The temperature has been dipping to near zero, and the forecasters are being put on the spot to foresee our weather future. It just doesn’t seem fair to suffer such cold without a little of that sweet white pure manna from the heavens to make it all worthwhile.

Maybe the reason so many adults are wishing for snow tonight is that – number 1: it’s not ICE…and number 2:  we have such fond childhood memories of tuning into the local radio station on snowy mornings, praying we’d hear those cherished words dear to every student’s heart: 

“There will be NO SCHOOL in Marion County today!”

Between Christmas and Easter, there simply was not a better holiday than those snow days announced by J.T. Whitlock on WLBN.

And he wouldn’t just announce it…Oh no! He would make an absolute production of it. He would make it dramatic.

Here is a little example of the drama from the local radio station I experienced as a Marion County school student on snow-dusted mornings:

J.T. Whitlock:  "And now for the Marion County School situation......

There WILL BE.........

<pausepausepausepause>

Children in radio land: <disappointed, and in chorus>  "awwwwww......!!!!"

J.T. Whitlock: ..."Hmmm...Where IS that school report?....can't seem to find it... I know it's around here somewhere - we just got a call from the Superintendent...now where IS that dern thing..."
<paper rustling at the station>

Children in radio land: <brothers & sisters look wide-eyed at one another, holding
their collective breath, realizing there is still hope>

J. T. Whitlock: "There WILL BE................

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NOschool in Marion County today!"

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As soon as the announcement was made, Marion County children were reaching for coats and boots and couldn’t wait to begin a day of sledding and building snow men and snow forts in a terrain that had changed overnight into a fantasy land.

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But you never know what Mother Nature has in store.

To give you hope, I offer this.

This is my friend Debbie,  posing for me out on the streets of Lebanon (as only a good coatless friend would do) during a surprise “blizzard” we had a few years ago. 2003, I believe. The snow was not on anyone’s radar, and came so swiftly and heavily that all of us at work wondered how we’d get home. Seriously - the snow seemed to come down in clumps and it was the darndest thing I ever saw.

  

I also offer you this snowy scene of St. Joe Church.... and I hope with all my heart that all the school children awaken in the morning to a fresh blanket of snow! HAPPY SNOW!  : )