Posted on 12/08/2017 7:23:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot
“”my friend who lives a tad north of San Antonio sent photos of snow on the ground yesterday””
I have a newspaper clipping/picture in an old scrapbook when the POW’s were returned home from Vietnam of a POW from San Antonio taken with his family in the snow. I can’t imagine how good that snow had to look to him.
I wore a bracelet with his name on it and I still have it. I know he returned home but the bracelet my husband had was never listed as coming home.
Speaking of snow, the snow here in Metro Atlanta is beautiful. Supposed to be a nasty/hazardous night but today it was gorgeous...Picture perfect winter wonderland. Don’t know about my plants tho’. The snow is so wet and heavy that the Azaleas are crushed to the ground and the Nandinas the same. Hope the branches aren’t broken....would hate to lose them.
The name of the POW on the bracelet my husband had was not returned...worded that wrong.
There was snow in San Antonio in January of 1985, my freshman year of college. Shut the whole city down. We went sledding on the freeway ramps using dinner trays from the cafeteria.
Some of my classmates who were locals had never seen snow in real life.
Sounds like fun. Did you grow up in TX? I was born and raised in upstate NY and always looked forward to “fun in the snow.” We HAD to be greeted Christmas mornings with snow on the ground....don’t remember it never happening but it probably did. Just wouldn’t have been the same. I moved to CA when I was in my early 20’s and always missed it...now we’re retired in GA and I get to see snow again. Beautiful today but very wet and heavy - not good for the shrubs...
I lived in Corpus Christi from 1975 to 1977, and in San Antonio from 1984 to 1995. Our big snow year was Rhode Island in 1977-78, drifts up to 12 feet.
“”Our big snow year was Rhode Island in 1977-78, drifts up to 12 feet.””
Must be about the same time a bad storm stranded motorists in OH. We lived in Dayton for 2 years and had one snow fall. When we moved back to CA, they had the worst storm and all I could do was read about it...
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