SNOW! SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

[baymule]

You call that snow?

Yes we do! All the Houston TV stations are still on the news. The reporters are so excited to stay on the news all morning. Schools are closed, elevated overpasses are closed, this is a BIG DEAL here in sunny warm southeast Texas! ABC channel 13 is showing pictures from "way up north in Huntsville" which is maybe an hour or hour and a half north of Houston. Way up north? Houston is in traffic he!! right now. This is bigger than a hurricane! We get those all the time, but SNOW??? Now that's newsworthy!!

 

[baymule]

News reporter at Bush Intercontinental Airport talking about all the flights that are cancelled........ we have absolutely no way of dealing with a couple of inches of snow. one of the biggest airports in the country and we're a bunch of doofus idiots when we get a little snow. Shut 'er down.

TV news casters still on at 10:48 they have been talking about the snow since 4:30 this morning.........hours and hours of dedicated news all about the snow. Hey, I live here and I gotta admit how silly this is. They even sent a news caster "way up north" in Huntsville to stand out in the cold and snow so she could show us how cold it is. Just like when we get a hurricane and they send some poor dummy to stand on the sea wall in Galveston, leaning into the howling wind and rain to show us how bad it is.

 

[digitS']

Gee, I was gonna pick on her for getting her socks wet. Good job with the camera, Bay', (and with TEG software ), Yay!

No, I understand snow that seldom comes. In the 3 years I lived on the northern California coast, I only remember snow once. The place went cray-cray! Of course, the wind blew 24hrs/365 and I was chronically ill with bronchitis!

Well Bay', you will have to say that this was the time when you had 4 seasons, right? And, you've got more snow than here - can you report on how deep your ground is frozen ?

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

You call that snow?

Right! I've dropped my snow-cone at the fair and had more snow than that. Today I drove through white out conditions to watch Gypsy's spelling bee. No new snow, but the wind is sure whipping what's down up and around again and again. I almost lost my flip-flops walking down the driveway this morning. Should'a worn socks? Those are so cute, Baymule!

 

[baymule]

Well, the news finally gave it a rest at 12:30 PM haha-they were so excited to have something to talk about! They showed one newscaster who walked up one of those real high freeway ramps to show us how "bad" the ice was. There was 18 wheelers, a bus and cars that got stuck on the freeway ramps. They started up, spun out, slid and then stayed there until some of the ice melted enough for them to back down. Some slid into each other and got a ride from a friendly wrecker.

Steve, the ground is not frozen, it's just mud now. Red, we don't get white out here unless it comes from office supply in a little bottle.

 

[Sprinkler Buddy]

It hasn't snowed where I'm at in years but I'm still looking forward to Spring. One would never guess I was born in Michigan. lol

 

[seedcorn]

That is technically snow but we call that a "dusting". Not enough to even count as snow.

Snow is drifting here. Plus it's been cold so long that our air humidity is Arizona dry and static electricity is everywhere. We can't add enough moisture to air in the house.

 

[Lavender2]

Nice cabbage and pretty yard, baymule!

We call that a 'dusting'...
I think you have to be able to build a snowman taller than your cabbage before you can call it SNOW!

Crazy... we are 2 degrees warmer than Houston right now! A balmy, calm 32*! ...

 

[baymule]

Been wondering when Seedcorn would show up! Snowdrifts huh? Dry? Static electricity? Maybe rub down with a Bounce dryer sheet? It's good and soggy here! Our dusting might not count as snow to you, but it will be gone in a day or two or three--and you'll still be drifting along! did you get a look at my crepe myrtle tree? I know you fell in love with crepe myrtle trees when you vacationed down south this past summer. Mine is probably 40-50 years old. It was so heavy with blooms last summer, that we couldn't walk under it. We had to tie the branches up, cause we didn't want to trim them off.

Thanks for the compliment Lavender2, I keep telling DH that patch of useless lawn in the middle of the front yard would look waaaay better as a vegetable garden!

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Yup, we call that a dusting too. It been and endless cycle of drifting + freezing temps and short periods of thawing out here since winter started. I don't think autumn was ever here.

I've never really tried to grow cabbage yet so I haven't seen in covered in snow. The only cabbage that I've seen in a long time - skunk cabbage. Not edible but pretty flowers. Probably my favorite native plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplocarpus_foetidus