A Winter Wonderland In the Desert

As you may have heard on the news we had snow in Tucson last night and this morning. Around 5 pm we were having a nice rain and then at 6 pm it turned to snow. About 8:30 we decided we had better get home before the temperature dropped anymore and the roads started freezing. We discovered our car covered in a heavy, wet snow and as we drove we saw all the trees and cacti coated in snow. At bedtime it looked like it was starting to melt so I was delighted and somewhat surprised to see the winter wonderland outside my windows this morning. By afternoon it had all disappeared except on the mountains, although the weatherman says we could get another round. Of course, this was the day they had rescheduled our house painting to take place. That is twice that we've had snow when we were to paint. Should we keep trying to paint?? Can the desert take more snow?? Not only did we not get the house painted but most of the schools in the area were closed. All the bridges and overpasses were closed over night and until mid-morning. They usually spray them with a chemical which keeps ice from forming but due to the rain they had not been able to do that so there was lots of ice.