So unusual was the event that people took photographs of mere handfuls of flakes, such as this one posted on the San Jose Mercury-News website by a resident of Gilroy.
It was all very amusing to someone who's been through winters in Westchester, Ithaca and Boston.
"It's so silly," Genevieve tells us. "The news coverage of this has been hysterical."
The forecast that measurable snow might fall within San Francisco prompted heavy TV coverage as well as tongue-in-cheek responses: One blogger posted a "ski map" designating various hilly streets as beginner, intermediate and expert slopes.
The city last saw snow on the ground in 1976, when an inch fell.
But in the end, only the merest dusting of snow landed in hilly areas before it changed to rain. The storm system did dump more than 2 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Meanwhile, in Ithaca--
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A storm dropped 8-12 inches on Tompkins County on Friday, on top of 3-6 inches earlier in the week. Hardly a surprising event to, say, a current Cornell student.
"I talked to Vivien yesterday but she didn't mention it," Genevieve said. "I guess that's par for the course."
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