Snow in New Orleans Provides Rare Weather for South

Snow in the South is a funny thing -- sometimes it shows up on Christmas (rarely) and other times it shows up on the baseball field in April while your Little League team is warming up. The latter, of course, is just bizarre.

Much like snow in New Orleans. And, yeah, that happened today.

A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power.

[...]A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning.

Office workers stepped out of high-rises to catch a snowflake, snap pictures with cell-phone cameras and swap snow stories.

Look, if you live in the North, you don't understand -- Southerners totally freak out about snow. When a few flakes hit North Carolina, the entire area starts scrambling for tire chains, snow plows, bags of salt and budgetary clearance for these items ... since they got cut the previous year because no flakes hit the ground.