White Christmas in TEXAS!!!

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2004-12-25 12:47am

It is snowing in Houston, Texas!!!! Big honkin' Texas sized snowflakes. Several inches are actually sticking to the ground. This is extremely rare in Texas, well on the gulf coast it is anyway. This is the first real white Christmas I have had here at home.

Merry Christmas.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2004-12-25 01:00am

I'm in Austin, and it just barely missed us.

Well, at least we got a lot of snow back in February, but damn it, I still want it to snow again!

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-12-25 01:37am

*thumbes up*

Rock on.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-25 01:58am

It's already melting off here in the west. I'm fairly sure that by tomorrow the only patches of snow left will be the shady patches. I thought it'd be the first-ever white Christmas in my life, but nah.

Not that I care about white Christmas anyway, but it would've been a novelty.

I heard Corpus was getting hit even harder, too. They've got to be going nuts down there.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-25 03:41am

The Panhandle got bombed under, but that's nothing new. I'm sure that Amarillo is busy doing it's 'sixteen mile sheet of ice' imitation, as usual. Lubbock's going to be a real mess because they had a heavy year for construction. Ice+construction+college drivers+holiday booze=Not pretty

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-12-25 03:48am

I live in Syracuse, NY... a place so infamous for its horrendous snowfall that they made some crappy feature film about it a while ago.

Surprisingly (and for me, happily) there's not an inch of snow on the ground right now. It was 40 degrees out yesterday, which totally wasted what there was.

Snow is so very annoying. It makes it tough to walk, tough to bike, causes massive amounts of corrosive salt to be dumped everywhere, gets contaminated with pollution and turns into massive piles of dirt, and leaves scum everywhere when it melts. Screw this 'white christmas' junk. I want a green christmas so that when I go buy a new bike on monday I can ride it without sliding into a snowbank or spraying it with saline.

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2004-12-25 07:55am

It snows in Texas?????? Wow.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-12-25 12:16pm

No snow in Louisiana yet. You Texans can go fuck yourselves.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-12-25 12:21pm

Death from the Sea wrote:It is snowing in Houston, Texas!!!! Big honkin' Texas sized snowflakes. Several inches are actually sticking to the ground. This is extremely rare in Texas, well on the gulf coast it is anyway. This is the first real white Christmas I have had here at home.

Merry Christmas.

Are you living in Houston as well? If so, that makes two of us.

Lusankya wrote: It snows in Texas?????? Wow.

Yeah, but our horses have no problem plodding through it. But those wagons.....it's such a chore strapping those chains to the wheels.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-25 12:29pm

Thought you were in Little Rock, Wicked.

Yes indeed, it snows in Texas. The northern portion of the state is essentially a giant flat prairie where cold weather blasts through all winter long. It's nothing on the scale of real winter like northerners get, but it gets a bit nippy and snowy on occasion. Dallas-Fort Worth also gets snow occasionally, but the real fun is the ice storms that hit the town. The roads slick over completely and traffic goes nuts. I've been in a couple, and the only safe thing to do is shut down and wait for the roads to clear up so they'll stop crashing into each other on the freeway.

Here in my part of the state, we get snow about three times a winter, and usually it usually only sticks to the ground about once. This is always the signal for the idiots with four-wheel drives to go out zipping around in utter ignorance of the fact that they can accelerate well but not stop worth a damn, so we end up with any number of them sitting in ditches waiting to get towed out.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-12-25 02:39pm

God loves you for voting Bush.
God hates you for voting Bush.

That's why it snowed in Texas.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-25 03:39pm

aerius wrote:God loves you for voting Bush.
God hates you for voting Bush.

That's why it snowed in Texas.

My history of poor relations with God go back to well before Bush developed any form of political ambitions, thank you kindly.

Like the man said, "I know there's a god; somebody's out to get me."

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-12-25 05:00pm

Snow in Houston and all the idiots who cannot drive are driving even worse.

A duck and cover event for me...

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-12-25 06:19pm

Bastards, the snow was just south of me here in San Antonio.

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2004-12-25 07:00pm

Anarchist Bunny wrote:Bastards, the snow was just south of me here in San Antonio.

No snow in SA? Too bad. (Though I'm in Houston now)

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2004-12-25 08:37pm

most of the snow melted off today, just patches here and there are left behind along with the snowmen I in my brothers yard and everywhere else I have seen.
It is funny, I spent two years up north and learned to drive in the snow, and yet my mother was still worried about me driving in the snow. I was more concerned with all of the other people on the roads who have never even seen snow....

hope everyone had a good Christmas.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-12-25 11:37pm

Now I'm jealous. It's snowing in Texas, and yet I'm not getting a single fucking flake in Jersey. Mother Nature has her priorities all wrong. She's supposed to not give Texas snow, and give New Jersey something, even if it's only an inch, and all of it is that blackish gunk you see on the sides of the road.

EDIT: As of December 27, I see snow. It almost makes up for falling asleep at 9 the night before and not getting up for 12 hours.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-12-25 11:43pm

Western Oregon and Washington got jack shit. Foggy today, drizzle tonight. As usual.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2004-12-26 03:42pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:No snow in Louisiana yet. You Texans can go fuck yourselves.

I got almost three inches here. Ha ha.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-12-26 05:25pm

Captain Lennox wrote:I got almost three inches here. Ha ha.

You too can have sex with yourself.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-12-26 09:20pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:I got almost three inches here. Ha ha.
You too can have sex with yourself.

we're getting 8 inches tonight here!

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-12-27 02:39am

You guys are lucky. Just a few snowflakes for me this Christmas

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2004-12-27 03:15am

Bah... does not match the Great Texas Blizzard of 85' we had about 9 -10 inches in San Antonio then. That shut the city down for a few days.

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