Sam Grace, 31, beamed with excitement as his neighborhood outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, became blanketed in a rare heavy layer of snow on Jan. 21.
The New Orleans native found himself caught in an arctic blast that brought several inches of accumulating snow to the streets of towns across the Deep South and Gulf Coast, including The Big Easy; Houston; Gulfport, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida.
“I’m loving it,” he told The Epoch Times.
Baton Rouge and New Orleans had received snow before, but Grace said he’d never experienced a snowfall like this.
He and his friends were joking about what the storm’s name should be and came up with names such as “Laissez-Freeze,” “Bourbon Street Blizzard,” and “Carnival Blizzard,” in homage to Mardi Gras celebrations, which are already underway….