I’ve been told there has been no snow in Corpus Christi in forty years. Nobody else is up yet here, so I got some photos of untrampled white stuff before it all goes away today–forecast high of 54.
I didn’t expect to see this much when I got up. And it’s still coming down.
I guess it was like 1989 and we got some snow in Houston. Like a dusting, far less than what you have today. But we were so excited to see it that we immediately started acting like it was a blizzard. We put on layers of unnecessary clothes and went outside to make a snowman, which was more of a “dirt and gravel” man. My brother and his friend decided they were going to play tackle football in the street because “the snow would soften the blows.” Ha. You could still see the grass through the flakes!
Comment by Sarah — December 25, 2004 @ 8:15 am
I was counting on you to give us news from our 2nd home. Know any bloggers in San Antonio? Sorry I missed it. NOT!
Comment by DagneyT — December 25, 2004 @ 9:59 am
Thanks – you just brought a white Christmas to Iraq!
Comment by Greyhawk — December 25, 2004 @ 10:15 am
Six inches, and now beginning to melt. Apparently this accumulation equals the total of all recorded snowfalls combined!
Comment by Bunker — December 25, 2004 @ 11:50 am
I live north of Rockport, in Lamar, we had eight inches and it is still in the process of dripping off the roof. We live in dense woods and still have lots of white stuff around. Amazing.
In 1957 we had a snowfall like this that lasted quite a while, also at some point in the 60’s when I was living in Lafayette we had snow there and came home to visit here and had a lot of snow here also. I think it was in February.
This was a miracle White Christmas.Two of my kids were here and we all took a walk in the snow at 11PM, Christmas Eve.
In 1944 one of my younger sisters was born on Christmas Eve in Borger. (Phillips community) on Christmas day we walked in the beautiful, moonlit snow to visit her in the hospital. She was our Christmas miracle that year and every year we think of it. Last night the moon on the snow in my backyard was just as beautiful and the snow was still way above my ankles! It’s getting a little patchy today.
Comment by Ruth H — December 26, 2004 @ 2:57 pm
Amazing, isn’t it? The weather channel says that since records have been kept, this is more than the cumulative total for Corpus. And you’re maybe 30 miles away.
Comment by Bunker — December 26, 2004 @ 5:04 pm
It hasn’t snowed here since 1973 and the last time I remember snow in South Texas (I was living at Lake CC at the time) it was 1980. It’s only snowed on Christmas in CC once in recorded history and it’s never snowed on Christmas Eve. All the particulars are in the Sunday Caller-Times, but I’m too lazy to go into the living room to get it. 😉
I was up late and got over a hundred photos of the snow here in Corpus Christi and put some up on my blog.
http://www.armageddonproject.com/pivot/entry.php?id=101
and
http://www.armageddonproject.com/pivot/entry.php?id=103
What are of CC do you live in? (I’m back in the “nice” section of the Bluff. *heh*) (BTW-You’ve been blogrolled. 😉
Comment by Michael Jones — December 27, 2004 @ 12:25 am
The February snow I mentioned was apparently in 1973 as my daughter tells me she was in high school, and Dale Nelson listed 1973 and a February snow. We drove her back to meet her husband at Port Bolivar today and saw that the Bay City area seemed to have had more snow than we did. A man working in the HEB there told me they had anywhere from 8” to 14 ‘ depending on who you talked to, but there was still plenty of it on the roofs around 11 am today. Still amazed at it all.
Comment by Ruth H — December 27, 2004 @ 9:02 pm