Snow in El Paso

I woke up this morning to flakes of white floating gracefully through the air. Looking out over the freeway (which is basically in my back yard) I saw the cars creeping along at a snail-like pace. Now you might think that with a pace such as that there would be a cause for caution, for instance a white out, icy roads, a foot of snow, or something of that nature. But no, the snowflakes were not even making it to the ground before melting, there was no ice or even slipperiness on the roads, it was just the sight of snow. Who knows, perhaps because it is so out of the ordinary here the drivers were slowing down just to take in the beauty of the individual flakes.