re: #297 KGxvi

Sometimes, I wonder how people would react if we got snow in the greater LA area (last time, in the 1940s). Then I remember how bad people are out here driving in the rain, and I realize it’s probably a good thing we don’t get snow.

IIRC (and probably don’t, but never mind for now) early in (?Feb?) 1968, the LA area got a few actual flurries from a cold winter storm passing through: most of it landed on the mountains; and the view of snow-capped peaks on the eastern horizon was remarkable: especially in the smog-alert era when one usually couldn’t see the mountains, still less the snow. Nothing stuck, of course: but it WAS “snow”. And fortunately, Angeleno drivers have remained unchallenged by it ever since…..