Guess what is happening in Houston right now…
Thank goodness it will be back to “not quite summer” in a few weeks…
Thats called snow! [(-D]
But traffic was FUN tonight Ed. The IDIOTS in Houston you excluded have a hard enough time driving IN THE RAIN give them something that is FROZEN causes ICE and I KNOW THIS THE BODY SHOPS ARE GOING TO BE VERY VERY BUSY FOR A FEW WEEKS.
Living in Atlanta I know waht you mean! My daughter is now 9 years old and before this year she had only seen snow on the ground one time. But back in January:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGSlCDzrDk&feature=channel_page
Gone by the next morning. Jamie
No, really, is that what it is?[:D]
This is a Sago Plam…it dosen’t like snow either…
It does like beaches, blue skies, and warm breezes blowing in off the gulf of Mexico…just like me.
TDot is closing roads…the Fred Hartman Bridge over the ship channel in Baytown is closed…IH 10 at Eastex freeway is being sanded, might close…and morons are sliding into each other at a tremendous rate…dummies think because they have 4 wheel drive and can go in the stuff, they forget it dont mean a thing when you try and stop in it…
Reminds me of that Ice storm I saw in Alabama in the mid 90’s a car spun out and went into the Ditch. I was parked in a Truck Stop to get a bite to eat before pulling out for the day. Well here comes the First cop doing maybe 60-65 hits the brakes Slams into the Tow truck and the car that was in the Ditch. They send another car out to respond to the Accident THEIR officer caused I guess he thought he was Dale Earnhardt driving at Talledega same thing happens. Next cop shows up doing slower than a power walker and then they get it cleaned up.
My prayers to you, Ed![bow][angel]
It has been a while since I was there, and there the worst of conditions was only heavy rain… The added unknown diamention of snow-slickend roads will add another diamention that is driving and surviving in Houstion…[%-)]
Looks like you need a warmer coat for Christmas, Ed![(-D]
Why isn’t this man smiling? Come on…ho ho ho and mistletoe and all that. Remember back in July, it was probably so hot that you wished it would snow.
I had a friend in college from southern Florida. The first time it snowed, areal blizzard like in Ed’s picture, he was late for our first class. When he showed up, he was soaking wet and shivering like crazy. Turns out he had stopped to make snow angels on the grass.[:P]
A “real blizzard like Eds”…oh, ha ha ha…a thousand stand up comics out of work and we get stuck with…[:D]
AHH snow! A curious thing. Not seen in so many parts of this country yet deemed a standard of winter fare. Here in the Northeast, you don’t do Christmas shopping until there is a steady snowfall and at least a dusting (if not an inch) on the ground! Then after Christmas you grumble it out into spring!
Ed - glad you are enjoying the weather I sent you. This will acclimate you to cold and snow for your retirement move to Nebraska. Then I will show you what real snow looks like - out west. Besides, a Blysard shouldn’t live where there isn’t an occasional blizzard.
And if you miss the humid climate - we are humid year round. Perfect! [:X]
Pshaw!
Snow, that blessed, cursed fruit of the sky:
Sometimes floating,
Often flailing,
Always frozen.
It covers the land with a mantle of alabaster,
Purity personified.
Lying on the landscape like grandmother’s quilt,
Swept into hills and valleys by the whistling wind,
What marvel this myriad collection of flakes: individual
Indistinguishable, woven into a blanket of white
By a power greater than ours
To be rent by man:
The rumbling, clanking plows
The children of all ages
Who become, in its presence
Artists, architects, and engineers.
Allow me the luxury of commenting on global warming and man’s part in it. Time will prove it to be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated. Chicago is having the ninth coldest winter in history so far and the third in a row where temperatures have been dropping. Much of that chill will apparently be coming from political offices around the state for the rest of the winter.
Ed, I saw that mess on TV in the past hour and was really surprised by it all…The Alligators should be a bit slow this morning.
Maybe, I could help you out. Our lumberyard probably stocks more snow shovels than the whole city of Houston.[(-D]
The joke that the snowbirds tell here is :I’m going to tie a snow shovel onto the hood of my car, and start driving south until someone asks “What’s that thing?”[:)]
Looks to me like Santa is getting too skinny…
Looks like you guys got a little more down there by you Ed than we did up here in Spring- it was a nice little snow squall for about 6 hours. My usual 15 minute drive home from work only took an hour yesterday…[I(]
http://flickr.com/photos/nordique72/3099732257/
I found it amusing how people freaked out so much over the snow- up north we’d call this a nuisance snow, not enough to call out the salt trucks but just enough to be annoying!
I can hardly wait to see the YouTube videos of silly twits sliding all over the roads. I really don’t know why people in the south have such a hard time driving in the ice and snow. They know it’s slippery. They know they’re driving a heavy missile. They know not to punch the gas. They know not to hit the brakes too hard. Yet they still manage to total a car that’s only travelling on a simple city street.
I’m from Wisconsin. You don’t see me having any trouble driving whenever the temperatures hit 100 degrees. [:D]