The snow has really changed things around here. When you turn a corner, Italy appears to be a picture postcard or a living Christmas card. The white snow makes our city take on a new ambiance and a new, clean atmosphere. The snowfall is rare in this area but certainly most welcomed. The children (young and old) have a new skip to their step and mischievious look in their eye. Snowballs come hurling out of nowhere-but only in fun.

The snowfall broke new records this week according to the WFAA website, Pete Delkus and his team of experts. The meteorolgists boast record snowfalls for the DFW location. This record overcame statistics from previous times and is the largest snow on record. It reached 11.2". The old record was 7.8" in January 1964. “The all-time 24 hour snowfall record for DFW was broken with a total of 12.5” reported from 4 am Thursday to 4 am on Friday. The previous record was 12.1" set in 1962," reported Channel 8.

In the Waxahachie area the record fall was 8.8" this week. Local Italian, Mike South, recorded our snowfall just under 5". In outlying areas, others boast around 6" on Friday. Some say the snowflakes were the size of a quarter. Still, others suggest the size of half dollar. The flakes came down at a rapid pace and were unrelenting. There were some times of the day, one could not see very far.

Luckily, there aren’t as many power outages in Italy, as there are in the Metroplex; however, there is enough weight on the trees to split trunks in half.

This weather was so different than what Texans south of the Panhandle are used to dealing with, that one could imagine Northerners, who are conditioned to tire chains, snow falls and blizzards, chuckle at our amazement and our jaws dropping in wonder at the sight. The fact of the matter is we are not very good at driving in this either. There are still tell-tale signs of cars losing control and sliding.