Totally OT What we woke up to in the Houston area

[Leon]

Less than 4 months ago 35~50 inches of rain.

Now this, must have been because of the ground still being wet. ;~)

[Ed Pawlowski]

Nice! We get some tomorrow night.

[Leon]

The right kind of snow, no shoveling and roadways are clear. Houston is almost in lock down though. LOL

[G Ross]

You should print that first one out for your Christmas Cards. All we are getting is a 36 hr drizzle.

[Leon]

Good Idea, I send out Christmas Letters and this might make a good back ground. We had the drizzle for the previous 2 day, 1" of drizzle.

[krw]

We're getting that now. My son was complaining that we're getting snow earlier than they are (Vermont). They can have it. Snow is one of the reasons we left Vermont (other sorts of snowflakes are another).

[Clare Snyder]

That's more than we have up here in Waterloo Ontario (The Great White North)

[Markem]

Bought a snowblower last year, did not snow at all, best $600 insurance ever spent.

[russellseaton1]

No kidding???????

I think you got more snow than I did the entire last winter. I'm about 900 or so miles due north of you. It is probably a bit colder here than you a re in Houston. 18 degrees low last night and high of 25 this afternoon. B ut it is really sunny and clear skies.

[Leon]

We probably will not see this again for 5~9 years. LOL Seems it snows here after a sopical storm of hurricane affects our area.

[Leon]

LOL. Did you notice that some one used the snow blower before I took these pictures. ;~)

[Leon]

My nephew and his wife live in Norman OK. They wanted me to send the snow up there. LOL

It is all gone now and or as of shortly after 2:00 pm this afternoon. We only got down to 33.3. I think if it had been a few degrees cooler there would have been more. We watched it for 4 hours last night and it was melting the second it hit the ground. We were shocked this morning, apparently it came down heavier during the wee hours of early morning.

[OFWW]

Totally picturesque.

Nice! What makes it so cool is no icy sidewalks and driveways. Hard to believe in Houston area.

We have a different kind of snow here, ashes and golden skies.

[krw]

I was listening to talk radio on the way home. Evidently, some of the Northern suburbs have had 8" so far. We're on the South side. There was no accumulation (just wet) at work when I left. The roads around my house are snowed over but not slippery. My driveway is slick.

[Leon]

Our creator doing his thing. ;~)

Exactly and it was powdery. There were bridge and overpass problems but otherwise a winter wonderland for a few hours.

Yeah it has been one hell of a year.

[Leon]

Corpus Christi, TX, on the bay and about 200 miles SW of here, where I grew up, had 6 inches.

[krw]

Snow sucks. I thought I left it behind.

[DerbyDad03]

I spent last weekend installing a twist lock inlet and back feed breaker so I can run my house on my new-to-me generator if we get a bad storm this year - like we did last year. I'm getting to old to say "It's an adventure."

Of course, now that I'm all set up to handle the worst, we'll never lose power again.

[krw]

Cheap insurance. ;-)

[DerbyDad03]

Yeah, I got a great deal on the generator, so the electrical parts were more or less free. ~$550 all in for 5000W ready to rock the house.

If I never use it, I'll amortize the cost over the rest of the time that I live here. ;-)