Snow in the backyard at 6 p.m.
1979
That was the last time Las Vegas
saw this much snow!
Snow out front at 6 p.m.
I remember that event. I was 5 and my parents were having a party. I didn't want to go to bed because it had started snowing and I wanted to go play in it. I was worried it would melt in the night. My mother assured me it wouldn't and I finally went to sleep.
Snow out front just before 2 p.m.
The next morning was Sunday and we had church to go to. Our neighbors, the Zobrist family, went to the same church and we happened to be leaving around the same time. I remember getting into a great snowball fight in our Sunday clothes just before we piled in the cars to head to the church.
Snow out front just after 3 p.m.
The snow then lasted for days. We built snowmen and all that. There was 8 inches at McCarran Airport that year. This will likely not be as heavy as that year was. My parents said they had 3 inches and they are near the airport. But it is still snowing!?!
Snow out front at 6 p.m.
Here we have about 6 inches now at the base of our mountains and it is really coming down out there still. It has been snowing non-stop since about 10:30. It started as flurries then got heavy for several hours. It started sticking around 1 p.m. It lightened up around 6 p.m. and is heavy again now. It is supposed to continue through the night.
Snow out back at just before 2 p.m.
I can't wait to see how it looks tomorrow. We will have to watch the news in the morning to see if the school district is going to call a snow day tomorrow and cancel school. I hope they do. If not we may have to declare our own snow day. Who wants to drive in this anyway? And how often to Las Vegas kids get to play in the snow??? I think I see a snow man happening tomorrow!
The kids with neighbors playing in the snow out front just after 3 p.m.
If only we had snow clothes!
The kids eating snow off the car just before 2 p.m.
All ours are up at the cabin in Utah.
Oh well!
Hope you all enjoy the photos
I took throughout the day!
The snow coming down in the backyard at 6 p.m.
