Living in a place where it doesn’t snow has been a substantial adjustment for me.

Imagine my shock when I went to the fancy-schmancy mall in town and discovered that snow is such a novelty here that the wealthy attend snow shows at the mall.

I was running an errand, when I noticed throngs of people positioning themselves with their iPhones. When the Christmas music started, snow guns that were mounted on an adjacent office building began blasting. A light dusting of snow fell on people and flashes started popping.

The photo below shows people seated on the ground waiting for the show to begin!
.People went crazy for the fake snow.

I was astounded.

Around this same time, friends in Minneapolis were sending me texts asking if I had located my winter coat: they had 11 inches of snow!