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Snow in Coastal Carolina

Did hell freeze over?

Because this never happens.

Wait, that would mean that I think I live in hell.

I don’t.

Okay, but it’s still really rare for there to be any amount of snow here on the beaches of NC.

My very first year here, 10 years ago, as an uninformed former Pennsylvanian, I woke up one morning to what we Yankees call “frost” on the ground.

Even the most hopeful school-hating child in PA wouldn’t  have bothered to check to see if there was a school delay.

So, I headed on in to teach.

Bwahahahaha!

Yeah, school was CANCELLED.

For FROST.

So, when we got 6 inches of snow here this past weekend, it was a huge deal.

We quickly went from this:

To this:
To THIS:
But still gotta love that view:

I’ve never seen so many snowmen as were made this weekend.

I guess it’s because people around here don’t usually get the chance to make them. So, when there’s snow, everyone makes one.

Including right on the beach.

Here are Monkey and Bear, posing with some snowmen right out back of our house.

At first, it’s just a typical kids with snowmen pic…

But, notice what is right in the background!

Um, yes, those are socks on their hands. It’ not like we usually need gloves around here!
Thanks, Supahmommy for reminding me that I could use socks or I might have made the boys stay inside.

But, do you know what’s fabulous about snow around here?
It snowed on Saturday and it was gone by Monday.
And we’re supposed to hit 60 today.
That’s my idea of winter.
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Comments

  1. Look how tall your snowmen are!!

    I love how they have sand through the snow and of course the ocean in the background!

    Quit bragging that it is already gone! I had 3 more inches on my car this morning and a couple more inches are coming today…. Waaaaaa!!!!

  2. those pictures are ADORABLE ! WHAT A FANTASTIC MEMORY! SandSnowMen!!

    Yah for socks!!

    xoxo
    supah

  3. Love the snowmen and sock-gloves. However, I am totally jealous that your snow went away. We got snow weeks ago and it's still on the ground, plus a few more inches that have fallen since then. Ugh, I'm sick of it.

  4. Bwaaa ha ha ha…the comment about frost cracked me up. Living in northern Michigan I know exactly what you are talking about. Conditions have to be pretty severe for them to cancel school.

    How exciting for your kids to have a weekend of snow—wish ours only lasted a weekend 🙂 Love their snowmen—love the ocean in the background even better…

    Have a great day!

  5. My aunt lives in Pawley's Island, SC and they got snow too. Pictures of snow on the beach is so incredible!

    Those snowmen are so tall and your boys look appropriately cold in the pictures. Love it!

  6. I cannot believe all that snow!! Looks like your boys had a great time. I'm laughing out loud at the socks!

    I'm in Florida and it is 37 here this morning!! WTF?

  7. I'm envious of your backyard beach! That's one of the things I miss the most about being in Jersey. Ohio has nothing like that to offer. We're getting snow-slammed here, too. I've never seen it this bad.

    Those pictures are great!

  8. Now that would be my idea of winter too. I just love the pics uf the kids, snandmen, and the ocean as a backdrop. How gorgeous is that?

    Mind if I send a lil of our snow your way?

  9. Those pictures are great! I mean where else do you have snowmen with sand on them and the beach as a background?
    The socks on the hands are just too funny! I don't know if I would have thought of that.

  10. Those pictures rock- as does the snow -enough for fun , gone before you are sick of it. >sigh< I want to move…

  11. I think this year is unusually cold winter for everybody. I live in Florida now and I don't think our highs have reached in the 70's for almost a month. It's crazy. If we're getting so many freezes, I'd rather see snow!!!

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
    xoxo

  12. Wow. I used to go to the beaches in coastal NC multiple times per year when I was a kid, as late as Oct./Nov. because my dad needed his fishing fix, and I remember how cold it could be in a swimsuit. But snow? Never got to see that. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  13. Too cute. Hey I live in an area that does gets cold and snow and my kids still use socks on their hands lol.. What's that tell ya?? That they throw their gloves wherever and they get lost and so then we resort to socks.. It's even better if Imake them wear 2 different socks out of the can't find it's mate basket lol

  15. You know the reason they cancel school, right? It's because they don't want the coastal kids to miss out on their once in a blue moon opportunity to make a snow ball! Ya'll got more snow than we did and I live in view of the mountains!!

  16. Wow. The pictures of the snowmen on the beach are amazing. I used to live close to Lake Michigan and you'd see snowmen on the beach, but never with the water unfrozen. What great pictures!

  18. Oh man, I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, so it's hilarious to be down in the lower 48 and experience "snow" and the reactions.

    Tell me, once it began to snow, were all the bread and milk gone from the stores? Because, apparently here in Alabama, that's a precious commodity.

  19. Interesting snowmen…never seen snowmen with sand. I am sure my daughter would be excited if school was cancelled because of frost. If we get 5 feet here, they make us snowshoe to the bus. Dang! I wish my sled dogs worked better…it about kills me…LOL!

  20. I so wish I had that game so I could play along. I keep seeing ads for it and I want it!!

    Oh- and I totally want to come to your house this summer and lounge about on your beach. My family of 4 won't take up muh space- we'll being a tent and stay in your back yard and I promise to clean up any sand we track in when we have to go potty…

  21. That's so fun to see sand in the snowmen! We also made a snow girl a few weeks ago that was as tall as I am and wore a hula skirt and coconuts. My neighbors were cracking up..pics on the blog of course 🙂

  23. So I am happy for you that your snow came and went, but at the same time I hate you. Well not really, but you do stink! 🙂

  24. Those snowmen are awesome! Hilarious that the snow is mixed with sand on the beach! We used to go to the Outer Banks every other summer. So pretty out there!

  25. That's my kind of winter.

    My cousins from PA who now live in Tennessee were so excited to have school canceled due to an inch of snow.

    I would love to make a snowman on the beach. Awesome pictures!

  27. Sounds like my kind of winter too…I've yet to thaw from the 12 degree hold we're in.

    Actually, I like winter so its not so bad. I miss the sunshine but it pokes through now and again.

    It makes for quite the photograph to see snowmen standing tall with breaking surf in the background!

  29. LOVE IT! My brother and his family live in Ft. Worth, TX and got 12" of the white stuff. My nephews played in it for hours and the next day it melted. Truly a wonderful thing. My husband, on the other hand, is wondering why "OUR" snow (we live near Chicago) has forsaken us for warmer climes this year!

  30. Thank you for my very first experience. I've never seen snow on the beach before! It's beautiful. Monkey and Bear look like they had a blast making those snowmen. 🙂

  32. Oh, that is so cool, to see a snowman on the beach! I grew up with tons of snow, and now live in Oregon where it rains more often. School is canceled for any little dusting!

  33. That's the winter I want!

    I live in the freaking mountains and we've had nonstop, unmelting snow for the past 3 weeks and I really, really want some sunshine!

  37. yep being a native TN we have learned to check the tv even when there is a threat of snow:)

    That picture of the snow with the beach in the background is awesome. I have been looking for a house for our beach vacation and been longing for the beach but not that beach I want hot, sunny beach.

  40. I love the snow!! It snowed last week in texas too, which was pretty amazing. I couldn't stop looking at it…

  41. Those snowmen are HUGE! Crazy…it looks like they used nearly every flake of snow within a 2 mile radius to make those things.

  43. Wow those snowmen are tall! I think we people in the North take the snow for granted and how fun it can be. LOL We haven't made any snowmen this year in fact we haven't had that much snow this year. Loved the pictures.

  44. Hope your melted the next day like ours! Yipee for Southern snow, here today gone tomorrow!!

  47. Oh my gosh!! That is SO cool! Love all the pics. And we've done the sock glove thing several times! lol My kids are always losing their real gloves.

  48. I love the sandy snowmen 🙂
    that is GREAT! Thankfully you don't get that snow all the time… and I have to tell you I am VERY jealous of that. I am not meant to live in the cold and I have for my entire life!!!

  49. That is fantastic! Love the socks idea, great idea! Where in PA are you from? I'm a former PA-er turned Georgian- turned three other states, but now in Virginia!

  51. Holy cow!! 6 inches?! We were supposed to get 1 – 3 and got none. Talk about some disappointed boys who wanted to see snow for the first time!

  52. I grew up in SD and now live in DC. We always laugh that school is canceled at the thought of snow. Love the snowman on the beach! Beautiful photos.

  53. We showed some pictures of your "sea snow" on my news station yesterday– it's incredible! I never remember the Carolina beaches looking like that.

    Oh, and no drink for me tonight… it's Ash Wednesday, so I'm fasting. That means no dessert either.

    ~Elizabeth
    Confessions From A Working Mom

  56. Love all that snow!!!! Never thought I'd see snowmen on the beach…Mother Nature must be proud of herself!

    Socks on the hands..now that's clever!

  57. I am so jealous. Not only do you live by the ocean, but it is pretty warm there too! That is so funny they cancelled school for frost. That is a long way from how it was growing up in Wyoming! I love the pics of the snow by the ocean!

  59. That's some big 'ol snowfolks! I don't think we have ever had enough to make one that big…much less that many! Yall can have it though….don't want any!

  60. Snow? I've only seen it twice in my life. The last time was just this past weekend though! I guess that's life in the desert! 🙂

    Stopping by from SITS.

  61. So jealous….really, we got 14in, and well um, it's been almost 2 weeks, so we probably have 13.75 inches still on the ground 🙂

    I love the socks on the hands though, so ingenious!

  64. LOVE the 3 snowmen!! Did you go to my Blog yet? I have a great photo that a friend sent me – taken at Wild Dunes at the golf course along the ocean – it's wonderful!!

  68. Love the sandy snow men! When it snows here, it's too wet and sloppy to form into men, so we just use garbage bags to slide down hills on our butts 😀

  70. I want winter like that! I'm so over the Great Midwest and the winters.

    And the picture of them with the snowmen with the beach in the background- priceless.

  72. Can I live where you live? I love the snow on the beach!!!! The snowmen are adorable and I can't believe they'd cancel school for frost!!! WTF???

  73. I love your pics! I live in SC (I have all my life) and I must say that this was the most snow I have seen in my 32 years. My kids so used socks for gloves. We had them put a zip loc bag on then the sock so it would kinda make it water proff…I am really not a red neck! lol

    Anyway, if yall do a blogger meet up in NC or SC I am game.

  74. What a treat! I wish we could say that it snowed for the first time in a long time in Phoenix! I have never seen beach snowmen before! So cool!!

  75. Those snowmen are huge. Wow you do live right on the beach. Awesome! Still no snow here. My daffodils are coming up along with my tulips. It is February right?

  76. So awesome!! And I LOVE the pics–I've been secretly hoping you'd post some 🙂

    I remember in San Antonio when we got "snow". Every highway and interstate were closed. Bwahaha!

    xoxo

  77. Hilarious! Those snowmen are gigantic and so out of place at the beach! I had no idea you can get snow in the Carolinas?!

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  78. Oh my goodness! I love the pictures of the snow on the beach. I can honestly say, I've never seen snowmen on the beach before!

  79. Your pictures are beautiful! I have never seen snow on the beach before! Around here we barely ever see snow like that and if we do just like you its gone in an instant. I have totally done the sock thing too! Moms gotta have some ingenuity right?

  81. this is so exciting. my inlaws (in pks) sent pics of their house under snow. ridic!

    there may be nothing greater than the snowmen on the beach pic. i am so serious. you should post it at least once a week.

    is your main residence in emerald isle? so weird that you live right next door to my fam.

  83. Great pictures! I love the snowmen with the ocean in the background. I only wish our snow would go away as quickly!

  85. Wow, so cool to have snow and be at a beautiful beach! I can't imagine 🙂 I'm a new Friday Follower!

  88. Ugh! We het snow like this all the time. I'd much rather live where it only happens….practically never! Awesome snowmen by the way. How did you put on the heads?