Snow?

[mellicious]

 It has been cold and wet for several days, and they started saying tonight that there was a chance of snow flurries. I drove all the way home from work without seeing so much as a tiny flurry, and I was about to start complaining to Rob when I looked up and decided there was snow mixed in with the light rain. And, guess what, now it's snowing, flat out. It's above freezing and the ground is wet, so I can't imagine that it's going to stick.

The #houstonsnow hashtag is totally blowing up on twitter, so clearly it's snowing all around. On the far north side of Houston they might get snow on the ground, and my sister in San Antonio texted me a video of the snow they had on the ground earlier tonight, but still, we live in the southern suburbs of Houston, and we don't see a lot of snow around here.

I just rechecked the Weather Channel. They have changed the predicted low from 33 degrees (F) to 32. If the snow freezes the wet ground then we are going to have a mess. As somebody on Twitter has already pointed out to me, we don't have snowplows around here. And nobody knows how to drive in snow.

But meanwhile, I'm going back to lean out the front door and watch the snow fall.

Comments

[garpu]

Ugh. An inch or two in a place that doesn't get it can be dangerous, though. Does Texas even have plows or salt/sand spreaders?

[mellicious]

It didn't turn out to matter this time, but I don't think we have plows. Maybe sand or salt, I'm not sure.

[garpu]

Oof. That can get dangerous quickly, if it freezes a bit. :/

[mellicious]

I would think that further north in Texas they are better-prepared. Here we very, very rarely get snow that sticks. (There was a Christmas-Eve snowfall in 2004 that's legendary, but there must not have been much ice because nobody seemed to be much worried about it. I missed that one, though.)