This was a very amazing event for the low desert areas and rarely happens. We awoke to a light snow falling at 8 am January 7, 2005. By 9:30 am it had been snowing steadily and was beginning to pile up everywhere. The residents of my daughter’s housing development were all coming out to experience this unusual desert event. By noon there was 6 inches in some areas and everyone was out playing in the snow...all of us were trying to shovel our driveways! It was a difficult task with NO snow shovel and many resident’s vehicles were slipping and sliding down their driveways from the wet snow.

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