Jan 22, 2025 - News
2025 only gets weirder with New Orleans snow day
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What a year this month has been.
Zoom in: We've barely had three full weeks of 2025 and, as a community, New Orleans has already had two history-defining moments.
- We started with the New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street, a shocking tragedy that's still reverberating through the city.
- And now, with a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm, New Orleans is back in the national headlines.
Why it matters: The news isn't slowing down in New Orleans.
But seriously: Can't we catch a break?
Reality check: Not anytime soon.
- In just a couple weeks, New Orleans will host the Super Bowl. Evidence has already been popping up around town, with massive ads getting stickered on downtown buildings, NFL merch showing up in local stores, and "welcome" signs up in the airport.
- And then, Mardi Gras kicks off in earnest.
Zoom in: It'll take at least a couple days before temperatures rise enough for New Orleans to get back to normal — whatever that means — but this historic blizzard treated us to some pretty sweet moments.
- As my phone pinged with "can you believe this?" text messages, I went for a walk Tuesday morning, and it was quickly obvious that this snow day had already surpassed the few snow days we've had in recent memory.
- Blankets of white topped shotgun houses, and Mardi Gras flags flapped in the flurries as I watched a family laugh during a snowball fight. Behind me, the rapidly falling snow filled in the prints my dog and I left behind on the sidewalk.
- It was gorgeous, and it was only just getting started.
The bottom line: With roads, schools and stores all closed, all we can do is wait until it melts.
- Until then, maybe it's OK to just ... be still.