Snow in Jerusalem

A couple of weeks ago it snowed.

For me that is not very unusual, it is supposed to snow in winter, but in Sweden not in Israel. And this year they are growing potatoes and carrots in Sweden cause it is so warm. So far I don't think there has been any snow there.

But anyway it snowed like mad for two days here.

Old people became kids and wore silly looking thermal overalls, all the students in the campus where we live were out all night building snowmen and having screaming snowball fights and the city was at a standstill for three days.

I mean a complete standstill.

There were no buses and no one went to work, all schools and universities were closed. They said that on those three days of snow only 15% of the workforce actually went to work.

15%! Wow!

And all because of a little snow.

Everybody we knew called us and told us not to venture out in a car but we didn't really listen to them. The loved one was so excited to drive through the slush of white. Mumbling to himself "Wow! Its like a disaster zone! Wow! Shit! Cool!"

It was fun, the only other vehicals that were out and about were the police and rescue services that stood on standby in different areas of the town.

But since we live in a campus that is situated within the grounds of Jerusalems largest hospital (more about that later) all the roads leading to it (and our home) were cleared of snow first thing. So it wasn't difficult to drive at all.

And we even have penguins in the street: