A flake’s a flake’s a flake… right? Wrong.

… sometime around 5:30am …

The room is dark and- thankfully- warm.

I am jolted from a deep sleep by the harsh ring of the telephone.  I leap out of bed and across the room in a single bound.  My sister!  She’s having the baby!

But when I answer, “Hello?  Hello?  HELLO?” it’s only a recording on the other end.

“Seattle Public Schools will be CLOSED today,” says the nasal voice, “due to the threat of snow.”

I hang up and stumble back to bed.

A few hours later… at a more reasonable hour… I take a look outside.

The roads are bare.  Not even a teeny-tiny speck of new snow.

Well that’s sort of odd.  

I shrug it off.  The clouds ARE rather grey and foreboding.  Maybe Seattle Public Schools has an inside track with Mother Nature. Maybe they know something that the rest of us aren’t privy to. 

… 9:27pm …

The roads are still bare.  The day has been nice and on the warm side.  What residual snow we started with has long since melted.  

And so ends the first snow day that I can remember where THERE WASN’T ANY SNOW.  

Not one single flake.

I’ll give you a hint… you can’t clear up these flakes with Head & Shoulders.

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