Snowfall On The Forty Acres (Slideshow)
Ranking right up there with seeing the albino squirrel, today was one of those glorious, elusive days in a UT student’s college career — a snow day.
The University of Texas sent a text message out at 5:10 a.m. with the news that campus was closed for the day, but some students had declared it a snow day hours earlier — the Statesman caught a few students playing on campus in the early-morning hours as the snow was first beginning to stick.
Regular contributor to The Alcalde, Iris Camille Claudio, a graduate student in advertising and a native of Puerto Rico, snapped these fantastic photos of a white Forty Acres, taking full advantage of her second-ever snow day (the first being last year when Austin saw a few flakes fall).
I, myself, remember some wintry weather delaying the start of my junior year for a few days. Snow fell on one of them, but hardly stuck the way it did today. Did you get to experience a snow day while you were a student? Was it pandemonium? Tell us about it in the comments!
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Starting of the weekend of Dec 11, 1972 a storm moved in. It was my 21st birthday and my Dad and brother had driven a car to switch with the car I was driving. They ended up snowed in until Tuesday. I-35 North was closed. We were out of class that Monday.
Late 80′s or early 90′s we had a huge snow storm in Austin.
My friends & I grabbed our raincoats to slide down the hills on campus.
We had about 40 students sliding down the hill that day.
I do miss the hills in Austin.
Here are some photos I took as a freshman in 1985 of the snow-covered campus. Some photos from Dobie, some from the South Mall. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrabois/sets/72157625977721076/
Michael – I remember that – the bus couldn’t get up the street and I remember schlepping up the hill to my apartment off riverside….
I remember the big snow storm we had in Austin in 1985. My friends and i made a snowman at the Greyhound bus station that made the news. It was an exciting time for me back then.
I remember a snow storm in January of 1973. The Cactus Yearbook staff had planned a workshop to be held in Dallas. I walked to campus in order to call everyone to tell them the workshop had to be postponed. UT installed its own natural gas tanks so that classes would never need to be cancelled again … back then it was pretty exciting. Glad I am retired now.
Camille – Great photos of the 40 Acres, particularly since I couldn’t be on campus to see the snow myself!
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the 1985 storm was incredible. folks grabbed trays from Jester and were sliding down the steep grade in front of Moore-hill towards the stadium. there were trains of us attached leg to waist going down that hill. there were a few mild bruises as legs got caught in the drain pipes. some of the larger football players needed two trays…good times…
Reminds me of the snowfall in 1963 … we got trays from the cafeteria at Moore-Hill Hall and rode them down the hill …
In 1973 I was working for the state, and needed to get to the office on 11th. When I got to the top of the hill where San Jacinto met 11th and took a look down, it looked like a giant parking lot with cars skewed in every direction. I turned around and went back home.