Giant snow ball fight in Tacoma Washington
I know this is not important, specially with all that is wrong with this world but for an hour, Tacoma took time out from the world.
Friday evening this town had a very rare major snowfall of 8 inches. That's more snow than we have had in the past 9 years combined. A resident who lives close to downtown announced a giant snow ball fight for the park the next day, since we were all snow bound and unable to drive.
As I walked the 10 blocks to the parked we encountered lots of people of all ages from tots, to children, grand parents, teenagers, young adults and middle age adults along with tons of furry friends. About 350-400 came out to hurl snow balls, while about 100-150 watched from the sidelines.
For an hour Tacoma forgot about the world and the towns problems and all you could hear was squeals, laughter, shouts, giggles and barks of excitement.
It doesn't seem like it's important, but for a short time we just reveled in what mother nature had given us.
It wound up being covered by several tv stations and papers from all over the US and Europe.
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Make the most of a tough situation by people having fun...with snow! Innocent and something folks will remember for a long time. Especially the kiddos. Don’t apologize for posting good news. We need it badly. 
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I love the political discourse here on DU but it is a community built on what makes us human...hence all of the forums and discussion groups from religion to weather to politics.
It blew like a banshee here in western MT all weekend. I didn’t bother shoveling until the wind stopped this morning and we had 3 foot drifts against every door! A 50 foot spruce fell on my neighbor’s house...it didn’t breach the interior of the house, thankfully but lots of other trees fell too and the arborists are BUSY! A huge pine fell in the yard across the street and took the power line down so all those folks across the street didn’t have power overnight...it was below zero without wind chill but everyone made it through ok. We were all in the street visiting about it this morning. I think the groundog that predicted an early spring is on crack. 
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Here in the Deep South we go nuts when it snows, too... sliding down hills on trash can lids & cardboard boxes, making our tiny lumpy snowmen, heaving snowballs that fall apart in mid-air, and then going inside for hot chocolate! It’s a blast those rare occasions when we get some.
