"The Big Snow" in Elba, AL on Feb. 11, 2010My brother Perry Wilson took this photo of our house on Friday morning after we had 4" of snow - a rarity in this part of the country. And we were not here to see it!
We left Elba on Feb. 10 to go to Virginia Beach, VA to attend the funeral of Jim's brother's wife. We stayed Thursday night with our son and family in Florence, SC. It snowed in Florence, SC on Friday night, after we left to go to VA. We were always one day ahead of the big snows.
After having lived in parts of the country where there is always plenty of snow, we were not too unhappy about missing the snow. How well I remember the winters in Minneapolis, MN. Lake Minnetonka near where we lived would freeze over and there were ice houses out on the lake where people would go to fish (and party and drink beer, etc.). Then we had snow occasionally in north Texas and Winston, Salem, NC as well as Florence, SC. When we moved to Elba, we gave away our snow shovel - thinking we'd never need it again.
Last Friday was a holiday in Elba - schools were closed and county roads closed. It was also a very sad day for our back-yard neighbor. It was the day of Sammy Morrow's funeral.
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