"I remember that day very well. I was 9 years old. I lived in Lauderdale Lakes Fl. I think I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. That morning my brothers and I were at the kitchen table, my mom was making oatmeal for us because it was so cold. My dad had already gone off to work, but he called my mom and said to her, "Well Jane. It's happened.. Hell has frozen over. It's snowing outside!" My mom looked out the kitchen window and was yelling for us to come look.. It was amazing there were actually snowflakes falling!. Later while waiting at the bus stop with my 2 friends we were all talking about it and sticking our hands to catch the flakes and letting them fall into our mouth's. None of us owned any real cold weather cloths so we were given mittens and scarves to wear from my one friends mom, they were from Wisconsin and had plenty of the stuff. The friend from Wisconsin said that when we got home from school we would all go ice skating on his pool!!..He had ice skates for each of us. Imagine my disappointment when we got home to find the pool had not frozen over..lol..At recess at school we were allowed to go outside to "play in the snow" but by then it had stopped falling.. It's a day I'll never forget and a day that my friends still laugh about, thinking we would ice skate on his pool!" - Barbara Da Costa, Team Captain-Deanna's Defenders, South Florida Chapter Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation