I opened my window, slowly feeling the cold wind sweep into my room. A sight I had never seen before in Austin. A thin white sheet of snow laying on the  road and sidewalk in front of my house. First thing popping into my mind, Texas isn’t fit for snow, so this definitely means school is getting canceled. With this thought, I fell into a deep sleep. The next morning, I was awoken by my dad storming into my room, claiming that there is 3 inches of snow on the ground. 3 inches of snow in Texas, impossible! I hopped out of bed and put on an amount of clothing no one should ever have put on, and set out into the snow. The first day of snow was heaven on Earth. I got to go sledding with my family, had no school, and got to sit by the fire. What I didn’t know was that the rest of the week wouldn’t be so heavenly. For the next couple of days, we had on and off blackouts of electricity in our home. We had to rely on the fire to keep from freezing. Some people even lost water, thankfully we never did, but we did do our best to conserve water and electricity for people who had none at all. The whole week I was spending time wrapped in blankets or huddled next to the fire. Finally on the faithful day that the snow had started to melt, I finally saw a silver lining. Our power’s on and off pattern of blackouts stopped and the roads were starting to clear up. Finally we were being released from Snowmegaden.