Old Man Winter Visits Beaufort......Sort of

Old Man Winter (kind of) paid a visit to Beaufort, SC last night. Balmy weather turned chilly yesterday after the passage of a storm system through the area. It's clear and cool, wind chill of about 40 right now. So it looks like whatever pushed that rain out of the way yesterday is going to give us a very pleasant autumn day in Beaufort. A Realtor friend of mine in Eerie, PA was anticipating show up that way. Definitely a matter of perspective. We've seen snow twice since we moved here in 1996. If you ever talk to a Beaufort "old timer," tell them about the snow storm of 1989, when the Lowcountry got blanketed. Just for the record, I was living in south Florida (Hollywood, to be exact) when it snowed in Miami, on January 19, 1977. Yes, it snowed in Miami, more than 30 years ago. Now, I Googled, to confirm the date, but I didn't need to Google the actual event, because I was there. I don't know if there have been other reported snow falls in that part of the world, but it was a big enough deal in 1977 that an impromptu recess was called, so all the kids could go play in the snow, which melted as it touched the ground. I know a lot of long-time South Florida residents remember.