Gulf Shores may have long embraced the slogan “Small Town, Big Beach,” but after Tuesday’s historic snowfall blanketed the coastal city with 8.75 inches, a new catchphrase is gaining ground: “Small Town,

All-time record snowfall blanketed the Mobile area on Tuesday. Footage from Noah Scheeler shows the campus of the University of South Alabama draped in a thick winter coat, as snow continued to fall in the region.

A historic winter storm in south Alabama on Tuesday broke Mobile’s 130-year-old snowfall record and brought a rarely seen covering of snow to the beaches of Gulf Shores. But while it gave folks in Mobile an exceedingly uncommon opportunity to build snowmen, it also caused more than a few problems around the state.

Storm Enzo blanketed the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida with snow on Tuesday, bringing a rare winter sight to parts of the country more accustomed to sun and sand. On Monday, the National Weather Service called it a once in a generation event.

The National Weather Service had warned about a “significant” and “historic” snowstorm for south Alabama on Tuesday, and forecasters were right. Parts of south Alabama got record-setting amounts of snow on Tuesday.