Once in a lifetime
By Matias Canelson
24 August 2007
July, winter in the southern hemisphere. It is a different Monday in Buenos Aires, nobody works because they are celebrating the country's 191 years of independence. We had a very light rain during the morning, but approaching the noon the temperature reached -2 Celsius (28 Farenheit), and that rain became snow little by little. A snow that had not fallen over Buenos Aires since 1918, 89 years before.
People went out from their homes, without concerning about the cold, just to be able to play with the snow at their front door, a unique moment that probably won't happen again. Cell phones, cameras and videocameras were everywhere, registering every single moment of the unexpected snow which transformed the city into a completely white landscape.
To explain what that snow over Buenos Aires means for someone who can enjoy the snow every winter is difficult, but that's why we have photography: to explain things that cannot be said with words.
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