Thread: It's Snowing In Houston Texas!!!

I can't imagine who would be more excited!! The 18 yr old seeing snow for the first time or the mom of the 18 yr old who doesn't get to see him see too many new things anymore. Congratulations, have fun and be safe.

How exciting for you and your kids seeing snow. Hope you took pics for your family album. I remember back in the 70's in Tampa, FL when it snowed less than an inch. Many in the neighborhood were outside in slippers, jammies, robes making snowballs, even the senior citizens on the block. And this was around 6 am. Most of them had never seen snow.

HeHe, it started snowing yesterday here in Southeast Houston. I was working at Wal-Mart and had to go outside to check on the basket pushers when it started snowing. One man started dancing around like a little kid, it was hilarious. It is amazing to see snow in Houston ... especially since it decided to wait until Christmas Eve to snow, how perfect. I don't know about it being 150 years since snow accumilated in Houston because I am 22, and when I was around 5 it snowed here enough to make snowmen so I don't think it has been that long. But anyway, I have been taking pictures all around our backyard because I know this won't happen for a long long long time. I remember as a little kid wishing for a white Christmas ... well, i'm still a kid at heart and loving it right now. God Bless and Merry Christmas to everyone!!!

Posted 12/25/2004
Small Texas town sees first white Christmas in 86 years
By George Tuler

South Texas awoke to a rare blanket of snow, when up to 13 inches shattered records for the region. The deep freeze brought Victoria, Texas, its first white Christmas in 86 years and snarled holiday plans for thousands of travelers.

"It's totally snowed over," Tawnya Evans, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi, said Saturday. "It's unusual to see that here."

"A bunch of people are excited because it's a white Christmas."

The snow was expected to melt as temperatures warmed into the 30s and 40s throughout Christmas Day, but Evans said some of it could refreeze overnight.

Conditions on Indiana highways were improving Saturday, two days after a winter storm dumped up to two feet of snow in some areas, followed by subzero temperatures.

Indiana State Police said Interstate 65 near Seymour was still slick in spots on Saturday, but traffic was moving. They said almost all highways in southern Indiana were still covered by snow or ice.

The wintry mix caused hours-long delays on I-65 about midway between Indianapolis and Louisville, on Friday, when several semitrailers were jackknifed or stuck.

Authorities reopened a portion of Interstate 64 from the Illinois state line to Evansville in southwestern Indiana Friday, a day after more than 100 stranded travelers were rescued from their snowbound vehicles, which hampered snow and salt trucks from clearing the highway, police said.

A few small churches in rural areas of south-central Indiana canceled Christmas services, while even more called off Christmas Eve services to keep parishioners off the treacherous roadways.

Parts of Louisiana saw a slightly white Christmas, and freezing rain, sleet and low temperatures forced state police to shut down interstates and state highways on Saturday.

Still, AAA predicted a record 62 million people, including about 51 million motorists, would be traveling this weekend and next, when New Year's Eve also falls on a weekend. "We feel it's attributed to consumer confidence being up and people feeling more comfortable traveling post Sept. 11," national AAA spokeswoman Aymee Ruiz said Saturday.

Hundreds of passengers traveling to Tampa International Airport late Friday arrived before their luggage, which didn't get in until Christmas Day, spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said. Couriers were trying to deliver about 400 to 600 suitcases that had been stored in the baggage-claim area overnight, she said. The problem mostly affected travelers on Delta Air Lines and US Airways, she said.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stor...M_Exclude=Juno


Snowing at my sister's; snowing at my inlaws; no snow here ... yet ....

I think it's just crazy! It snowed in Corpus Christi, too... some kind of Christmas miracle if you ask me.. lol. Hadn't snowed there in just as long as Houston. And here I am in Virginia, where it had just snowed last Monday and my family got my Christmas snow in Corpus.. lol. My brother and sisters loved it, tho. Of course the next day, it was already half melted, but definitely something everyone there won't forget.
Edited to say, our snow's coming down now.. a day late.