The other night my daughter Alyssa came in to say goodnight and caught a glimpse of the weather report on the TV news, warning of the hard freeze expected this weekend.
"Could it snow?" she asked, her excitement at the prospect in no way masked. The last -- and only time -- she ever saw snow on the ground in Fresno was the first winter after she moved here from Texas, in 1998. She was 5 at the time.
"I thought, on the 6 p.m. news earlier, that Angelo said that might be a possibility," I told her.
Still, I couldn't find any other reference to possible snow, either on the network's Web site or in any weather-related stories in the Bee.
But when I picked up this morning's paper, there was the s-word in the top headline on the front page: "Growers will scurry, watch for snow flurries."
(Photo: Bee File -- A snow-covered sign on Broadway points toward Fresno street on Dec. 21,1998.)
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