Friday, February 4, 2011

Snow in Houston

Normally, I try to post once a day, but today you get both news and weather.  For the last several days, we have been deluged with Hard Freeze Warnings and Winter Storm Watches and Warnings – local TV news has found little else to talk about. 

Schools, airports and many local businesses are closed today because of the winter storm.

We did have one night with temps dropping into the upper teens, and a couple days with highs in the upper 30s, but the storm, a veritable blizzard if you could believe local news, fizzled. 

We were warned for days that snow would begin by noon yesterday and could drop upwards of four inches of the stuff.  Noon was revised to 3:00 pm, then 6:00, then 9:00 and finally, midnight.

It is now approaching 8:00 am, and the only precipitation that has fallen here at the Boggy Thicket was a trace of rain that left us with one to two inch icicles hanging from the eves.

I suppose we should be grateful, but as Honey said, if it’s going to be  this darn cold for that darn long, we ought to be able to make a snowman.

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