[Sally'sConcerns]

You do know that not all of Texas is humid, right? The entire Texas Big Bend region is part of the Chihuahuan desert.

Did you have to spend a lot of time outside in the Texas heat? I will agree that a little goes a long way.

It always felt strange to me to receive all of those Christmas cards with sleighs, snowmen and snow covering the ground and the trees while I was wearing shorts. Christmas weather always felt like February to me. However, my sister reported they actually had snow on Christmas day last year.

I was 7 years old when I experienced my first and only snow that stayed on the ground in Houston. I missed the great San Antonio snow event by a year. I believe they had snow on the ground for 13 days. Of course that could have been one of those tall Texas tales told to me by a native of San Antonio.

[decal]

"Of course that could have been one of those tall Texas tales told to me by a native of San Antonio."

OH, no: January 11-13, 1985, 13.5"

Map of the area w/ snowfall totals at:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ewx/html/attach/jan/smapj13.gif

[razorback-bert]

Sunset at Big Bend.

[rock58seg]

The 13 is right, but, it was inches of snow, not days.

[freema]

Funny you should mention the snow on Christmas Day last year. That was my fault.

Oh, what a story it is, too. My son was at Parris Island. His first Christmas away from us. My Dad, his Gramp, who was a Marine died unexpectedly on Christmas in 2000. I knew how much they loved to GIVE gifts and could not. So I prayed for snow, for Christmas.

I watched in awe when it started west of Houston the town of his birth, and continued to watch in awe as it traveled across the gulf, up the coast to PI, we in NC were blessed with the most beautiful ice storm, and his sweetheart traveled up the coast from here to NJ on the sleigh ride of her life.

What was probably the second-most weirdest Christmas for us, became another awesome day.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

It always felt strange to me to receive all of those Christmas cards with sleighs, snowmen and snow covering the ground and the trees while I was wearing shorts. Christmas weather always felt like February to me. However, my sister reported they actually had snow on Christmas day last year.

Keep in mind that Christ lived in a place far more like we do than those yankee, western European Christmas scenes.

[hispanarepublicana]

We're on the Llano Estacado (the Texas South Plains around Lubbock ), and we had a white Christmas last year, I think.