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[LizardKing]

Hey! Someone post pics of flooding up in NY/Wisconsin/Michigan/etc. A WHOLE 2 INCHES OF RAIN ON NOES TEH FLOODING!

haha, no shit. like every year we get a few inches of rain in Michigan over a day in the summer and people are out in the rafts and shit cause the sewers are backed up. My grandparents live in Texas outside of Austin and yeah, I wonder what would happen if we got that rain. Especially when the hurricanes come.

 

[Miguel]

So anyway, I'll take 1 inch of snow in Houston once every 5-10 years, cause I know in 3 days, we'll be back to 70 degree weather. Quit bitching about our snow and let us build our gigantic snowmen.

 

[B'z-chan]

Man i wish a freak storm would drop some snow on fresno again. The last time it happened here was in 99 and we got 6 inch's of the white stuff. It snowed for two days which was just insane cause it had never snowed in frenso that much and if it did snow it would disapear in seconds. But this stuff had me out in snow gear cleaning up the sidewalk and making 8 foot tall dirtmen.

 

[olimario]

I built a snowman too! pics later! family stuff now!

 

[Macam]

houston just might be worse than austin.

You seem to have something in for Austin, but it's leagues better than Houston, that's for sure. Well, unless you enjoy perpetual traffic in an oversized city where every store is the size of a Sam's Club and there's never ending road construction and freeway expansion.

I believe it's snowed ever so slightly in the past two years, but the last time it really snowed in Houston was in 1988 and that was a stunning 2 inches at best. Given how badly people drive here though, it's a shoe-in I'm staying in. Bad drivers are one thing; bad drivers driving H2s, Expeditions, F250s, and so on, in the snow is quite another.

 

[Dead]

Given how badly people drive here though, it's a shoe-in I'm staying in.

oh god are they awful. Its frightening.

 

[Mason]

You guys are treating this snow like it's a really big deal. I can't stop laughing right now.

:lol I agree, this is cracking me up. It's barely a flurry and they're going "WE'RE IN A BLIZZARD" I'll let you guys have your fun, though.

 

[Lathentar]

You seem to have something in for Austin, but it's leagues better than Houston, that's for sure. Well, unless you enjoy perpetual traffic in an oversized city where every store is the size of a Sam's Club and there's never ending road construction and freeway expansion.

I believe it's snowed ever so slightly in the past two years, but the last time it really snowed in Houston was in 1988 and that was a stunning 2 inches at best. Given how badly people drive here though, it's a shoe-in I'm staying in. Bad drivers are one thing; bad drivers driving H2s, Expeditions, F250s, and so on, in the snow is quite another.

Austin >>>>>> Houston. At least for me.

And we got a lot of snow the past two years one day during the year. Enough to have the entire campus erupt into a giant snowball fight.

 

[olimario]

:lol I agree, this is cracking me up. It's barely a flurry and they're going "WE'RE IN A BLIZZARD" I'll let you guys have your fun, though.

We're obviously joking about it being a blizzard... We're just having fun with our rare snow.

 

[Mason]

Yeah I know, that's why I said I'll let you have your fun. Is it even cold enough for it to stick and build up?

 

[olimario]

Yeah I know, that's why I said I'll let you have your fun. Is it even cold enough for it to stick and build up?

Near the end of the heavy snow it started sticking to the grass, but the sticking was pretty much limited to cars and rooftops.

 

[tedtropy]

We're obviously joking about it being a blizzard... We're just having fun with our rare snow.

I don't even know if it's 'snow' so much as sleet. Kind of resembles little grounded bits of styrofoam, or as though the Lord himself has dandruff and is scratching.

 

[Desperado]

damn beaten but who the fuck cares

it snowed

OMGWTFBBQ

 

[Tarazet]

Man, I've seen snow in the Bay Area twice but this year it's balmy even by our standards. None of the usual rain, either. Maybe that's why this has felt like a real non-Christmas.

 

[Drensch]

Quick, somebody in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconson, Minnesota, Canada (ON), ummm Kentucky, New York, POST PICS! (I'm from Michigan but in Oregon right now or else I would)

I would, but I don't feel like it. We did get hit hard though.

 

[Hitokage]

It's snowing in fucking Mexico and here in NC we haven't even gotten our usual ice storm yet.

 

[NLB2]

He wasn't talking to me and being a kicked out of high school has had no adverse effect on my future. My GED scores show I'm of high intelligence, as well. It's no major blow to me.

Sorry Oli. I tried to take a jab at you and I failed miserably. I hang my head in shame.

 

[truesayian]

I friend of mine tried to send me some pics of the snow, but i couldn't get em from her on the phone.

 

[olimario]

Wow!
It's hard to take pictures at night with no tripod, so bear with me. This is me being as still as I can be.

 

[FightyF]

I took pictures when my end of the city was in the clouds, but I never thought I'd post them here. Maybe next time.

 

[neptunes]

Pretty nice neighbourhood you got there Oli.

 

[Seth C]

Here in Kentucky we got a Christmas ice storm. My car was frozen to the parking lot this afternoon.

 

[Lhadatt]

I saw this stuff this evening in Baytown. Once in a lifetime event -- I'll remember it until Alzheimer's robs me of my dignity.

On the way back to my parents' place, we saw a banged-up car that had skidded out of control on the bridge at I-10 and the new spur into Baytown, plus a 13-car pileup on I-10 maybe a few miles before the eastern 610 interchange.

Yeah, Houston drivers are psycho.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Well, this is the second "Why the fuck are we getting a White Christmas Here" event in my life. The first one was a couple years ago in San Francisco, we were eating and overlooking the bay, and the entire restaurant stood up in amazement. It was snowing in San Francisco, which was amazingly beautiful. Too bad we didn't have pictures

Oh, and another reason we are shocked at this is because snowfall in Houston this early in the winter is unheard of. The little snowfall we get usually comes around late January and February.

Snowfall when I am in Austin rules, because the snowball fights that erupt are quite epic. In fact, there is a picture of my friend's ass on the net somewhere where he was mooning some girls while I was chucking snowballs at their stunned faces.


Merry Christmas, Houstonians, and enjoy it while you can, because you know on Monday its going to be in the mid 70s again.

 

[olimario]

 

[MrPing1000]

It's snowing Northern Ireland

Kind of unexpected rather rare for it to snow ever here